Screens blank after "starting windows"

[pipnina]

Machine:

    I5-2500k(stock)

    Gtx670(stock)

    Gigabyte-z77x-d3h

    Corsair h80

    Win7- 64-bit

    16gb ripjawz x ram

 

So I just finished a game of dota with my friends, got up, looked outside and when I went back to the computer my screens were blank (no signal). Re-seating the dvi connectors (both ends) did nothing, nor did restarting the computer...

 

But restarting the computer caused the BIOS to show... "Starting windows" to show up but as soon as the "welcome" screen was supposed to show up the screens went blank but my primary monitor claimed to have signal.

 

No idea what's happened. Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

    -pip

[kirashi]

Just for giggles, try removing your video card and using your motherboard's built-in graphics.

Logically, if you see your BIOS and "Starting Windows", it shouldn't be your video card, but eliminating one part at a time is a good way to test that.

[pipnina]

I booted the computer on the internal graphics and it worked fine... Me and my friend have found it's probably a driver issue as, when I deleted the nvidia drivers, it booted on the GPU properly...

 

Only problem is that when I reinstalled the drivers for the graphics card (different version to the one I was using) the problem started again which is weird...

2 hours ago, kirashi said:

Just for giggles, try removing your video card and using your motherboard's built-in graphics.

Logically, if you see your BIOS and "Starting Windows", it shouldn't be your video card, but eliminating one part at a time is a good way to test that.

 

[kirashi]

8 minutes ago, pipnina said:

I booted the computer on the internal graphics and it worked fine... Me and my friend have found it's probably a driver issue as, when I deleted the nvidia drivers, it booted on the GPU properly...

 

Only problem is that when I reinstalled the drivers for the graphics card (different version to the one I was using) the problem started again which is weird...

 

Well, at least you made progress. I would recommend either installing nVidia's beta drivers (if that is such a thing) or rolling back to a working update.

Don't have a [working] nVidia card in my house so I couldn't tell you what's going on.

[Sebbydo]

8 hours ago, pipnina said:

Machine:

    I5-2500k(stock)

    Gtx670(stock)

    Gigabyte-z77x-d3h

    Corsair h80

    Win7- 64-bit

    16gb ripjawz x ram

 

So I just finished a game of dota with my friends, got up, looked outside and when I went back to the computer my screens were blank (no signal). Re-seating the dvi connectors (both ends) did nothing, nor did restarting the computer...

 

But restarting the computer caused the BIOS to show... "Starting windows" to show up but as soon as the "welcome" screen was supposed to show up the screens went blank but my primary monitor claimed to have signal.

 

No idea what's happened. Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

    -pip

The same thing happened to me but the problem was when I upgraded to windows 10 and it crapped it's self. I just formatted my boot drive and installed windows 7 and it worked

[pipnina]

14 hours ago, Sebbydo said:

The same thing happened to me but the problem was when I upgraded to windows 10 and it crapped it's self. I just formatted my boot drive and installed windows 7 and it worked

Grr. After trying a few things it seems reinstalling windows is the only option left...

[Sebbydo]

12 hours ago, pipnina said:

Grr. After trying a few things it seems reinstalling windows is the only option left...

Yeah that should fix it.

[pipnina]

6 hours ago, Sebbydo said:

Yeah that should fix it.

Hmm, reinstalling windows still has the same problem. Booting into the older version of windows on my second hard drive (got a new hard drive a couple months back and kept the old one for storage etc but never removed windows) also has the problem. I guess this rules out drivers & hard drive faults. Could it be something wrong with the card itself?