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I recently built a computer and everything was going perfectly fine until I decided to update a driver. The driver download and I went to restart my computer. It froze and after an hour I stupidly decided to turn it off, and now it won't turn back on at all. I checked my power supply and it still works and my computer does have a dual Bios....is my computer dead?? 

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no try to gett in to the bois if that works your pc is not dead 

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2 minutes ago, Calvin Flowers said:

I recently built a computer and everything was going perfectly fine until I decided to update a driver. The driver download and I went to restart my computer. It froze and after an hour I stupidly decided to turn it off, and now it won't turn back on at all. I checked my power supply and it still works and my computer does have a dual Bios....is my computer dead?? 

What driver for what part of the computer?

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4 minutes ago, Dresta said:

What driver for what part of the computer?

It was a display driver 

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6 minutes ago, DarkSQ7 said:

no try to gett in to the bois if that works your pc is not dead 

I'll try but my motherboard isn't getting power 

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1 minute ago, DarkSQ7 said:

then mostly your psu is dead 

I tested the PSU using the paperclip trick and it still works so maybe my motherboard is dead? I hope it's not though :/

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Maybe reset the cmos? I don't know for sure that you should do that, or that it has anything to do with this, just that it resets the BIOS to default settings, so hopefully someone else can confirm if it's something worth trying or if it's a bad idea. Basically I don't want to be the person that told you to do something stupid, but it's an idea. disclaimer: disclaimer: disclaimer:

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Do your fans spin when you turn the PC on? Does the power light turn on?

Try to reset the bios (if you don't know how to reset it using the reset switch, you can do this by taking out the battery on the bios, waiting a couple of minutes, then putting it back again).

Try using integrated graphics.

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I doubt it would be your powersupply, but thats really weird. can you see your bios boot up at all? and are your case fans spinning? if they are then your mobo should be getting power since you should have at least 3 fans attached to it. (case fans / cpu cooler fan) 

Current built PCs:

1: XFX DD  AMD R7 260x / AMD FX-6300 4.7ghz OC /  MSI 970A Krait edition mobo / Deepcool captain 120 AIO cooler / 10gb of 1866 ram???? / 750W evga psu  / 1TB Seagate 'Cuda + 16GB SSD /  packed into a Bitfenix Shadow  window

2: Intel G3258 3.5 GHZ OC / G1 gaming 4gb GTX960 / 8GB of Ram / 128GB A-data ssd/ misc gigabyte mobo / Alpine Pro rev2.0 cooler / 500W Seasonic PSU / in a Bitfenix Pandora Window

3: AMD A6-7400K 3.8 GHZ OC / Misc AM2+ Gigabyte mobo / Cooler master Hyper T2 Cooler / 1 TB Seagate 'Cuda / 8GB 1866 corsair vengeance pro RAM / XFX 500W psu / in a cougar spike case

4: Intel G3258 oc 4ghz / Random MSI mobo / 1TB seagate 'Cuda / Cooler master hyper T-4 / 8GB Fury X ram / 4GB Club 3D R9 380 / 500W EVGA psu / locked up in a thermaltake versa N21 window

5: AMD FX-6300 4.1OC / Cooler master T4 cooler / MSI 970A gaming motherboard / 1TB Western digital blue / 8GB Hyper X Ram / 500W Thermaltake PSU / 2GB XFX DD R9 280 / Bitfenix Nova window case

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12 minutes ago, ForsakenLive said:

Do your fans spin when you turn the PC on? Does the power light turn on?

Try to reset the bios (if you don't know how to reset it using the reset switch, you can do this by taking out the battery on the bios, waiting a couple of minutes, then putting it back again).

Try using integrated graphics.

The fans and the power button both don't turn on. I'm a bit scared to take out the batteries but I'll try it. Thanks! 

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8 minutes ago, FeiROG said:

I doubt it would be your powersupply, but thats really weird. can you see your bios boot up at all? and are your case fans spinning? if they are then your mobo should be getting power since you should have at least 3 fans attached to it. (case fans / cpu cooler fan) 

I'm not getting any fans or power. I do have a dual Bios though 

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5 minutes ago, Calvin Flowers said:

The fans and the power button both don't turn on. I'm a bit scared to take out the batteries but I'll try it. Thanks! 

Woooo! Thanks! The fans are spinning and I'm getting power but nothing is showing up on my monitor 

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taking the battery out fixed it? That reset the cmos chip (your bios's memory) so it's reset to default. I feel better about suggesting that now, I was just hedging my bets because I've never actually done that before lol.

 

Did you try plugging your monitor into an output from the motherboard instead of the gpu? It may be trying to run off of the integrated graphics now that the BIOS is reset to default.

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On 7/23/2016 at 5:10 PM, Jaxion08 said:

taking the battery out fixed it? That reset the cmos chip (your bios's memory) so it's reset to default. I feel better about suggesting that now, I was just hedging my bets because I've never actually done that before lol.

 

Did you try plugging your monitor into an output from the motherboard instead of the gpu? It may be trying to run off of the integrated graphics now that the BIOS is reset to default.

Yes I did and that's fine man im just very happy to have my computer back up and running!

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