PC Issues

[Gibarr]

Hey everyone,

I've scoured the internet to try and see if anyone has had the same issue I am having and have not found anything helpful. I think ive narrowed my problem down to my CPU somehow but I am unsure why my CPU is potentially dead.

So for context, I have a i5-9600k overclocked to 4.7ghz which is 0.1 over base, with a Coolermaster Master Liquid 120, 4x 8gbs of ram corsair vengeance C16 at 3200mhz, Gigabyte aorus z390 pro wifi, windows 11 pro and a EVA rtx 2080ti that i got from a friend, originally had (still own) msi frozone rtx 2070. So everything was running fine till i realized my pc stopped seeing my tpm 2.0 module that's built into my motherboard, so I looked around to try and see what was causing this because windows stopped providing software updates to me. Eventually, i turned off csm and turned secure boot on and followed a few instructions with nothing fixing it, so finally I went to the gigabytes website and saw that my bios were behind. I then proceeded to update my bios from f11 to f12 which seemed to work until the computer would not boot into windows and would stay on a black screen after saying it was successful and then restarting. After that I realized my MoBo VGA light was on red, so I unplugged everything took my rtx 2080ti out and put my rtx 2070 back in and only plugged my display in and got the same black screen. After that I check all of my pcie slots with both GPU with no success, and even tried my onboard graphics with the computer still not showing me anything but a blank screen, i even swapped the display cables I was using. After that i tried cycling my through 1 stick of ram with nothing changing, and even resorted to buying a "new" used MoBo that is the exact same as what I had before with the same issue. So now im curious did the bios update break my CPU somehow or is there something else i missed thats so basic i didnt find it when i was trying to diagnose my pc.

PS i also checked all of my cables to make sure they were plugged in and or not shorting on something in the pc.

[Harmsway1283]

Have you cleared your CMOS? It’s recommended to clear CMOS after updating your BIOS. Also, if you’re using a Z390 motherboard (I’m assuming because of the 9600k) you may need to change the CMOS battery all together.

 

It’s highly unlikely that you fried your CPU through a BIOS update.

[Gibarr]

I did clear the cmos, one thing i didnt try that worked was i reformatted my boot ssd and now the machine powers on and boots into windows no idea why that "fixed" it though

also thanks for your reply