Displayport Cable took a Dump?

[Curufinwe_wins]

Hey there guys, so I think I have this resolved, but I'd like to share my experience here so others might not have the frustration and annoyances I had today....

 

So I come home from work and my pc is off (warning flag 1 - I never turn my pc off as I often remote into it at work)

 

I then turn on my pc (all usb devices light up) and the monitor refuses to acknowledge connection (FUCK!?!?!?!?), I hard reset, unplug slow boot all that shit and still no video!

 

I even plug in my DP connector to a different port (and my other video card) nothing works!

 

Losing my shit, I plug in my phone for post codes and it says 00AA Enter OS, BUT all of the software monitoring on the APP won't work.  Well fuck is my video card ruined?!?!?

 

I normally run sound through my monitor to a 2.1 system, so I swapped away from that to my headphones (which are always connected to my PC and THANK GOD! I have a quick key shortcut).

 

I then proceeded to smash my keyboard hoping for a tone alarm (which can only occur once in the OS, and thus meaning a functional system) and I get one YAY!!!!

 

Next up isolating the issue! I took my laptop and through an adapter plugged into the HDMI on my monitor (if this works it means the monitor works), and signal received!

 

I then took my PC and moved it into my living room and plugged it in via HDMI to my tv (not having another device with displayport) and YAY video!

 

I brought the PC back into my room and tried plugging it into my monitor via HDMI and YAY VIDEO!

 

Thus I think SOMEHOW?!?!? my displayport cable (the one that came with the monitor) shat the bed.

 

For anyone that doesn't know displayport cables are super well insulated, and use locking mechanisms so the pins literally couldn't be damaged while still plugged in (and not being moved.) 

 

The cable has no kinks, cuts or anything on it, and I don't have another one to try yet, but uhh that was so scary...

 

I am checking to see if driver update does anything right now, but I am doubtful.

[Curufinwe_wins]

reserved for update

 

UPDATE: After updating drivers (I had been using the same driver since march as I don't update drivers unless I buy a new game), the cable worked again....

 

So uhh that is really freaking weird and scary, and as a precaution should such a thing ever happen again, I left my HDMI cabling attached to my monitor (it is a huge freaking pain to get the hdmi in my monitor as it sits on the desk...)

 

So yea if anyone has this sort of issue moving forward, feel free to try the same steps to at least get into the visible computer to update those drivers...

[done12many2]

Sucks that it happened, but this was a funny story.

[Curufinwe_wins]

3 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

Sucks that it happened, but this was a funny story.

Scary as balls is what it was.... But yea if peeps can learn from it cool.