Did Kindle kill my PC?

[Archijs]

Hello!

My PC is at a decent age, and was working perfectly up until yesterday. It is an i7-3770k, Asrock Z77 Motherboard, 8GB G-Skill RAM, EVGA 1070 FTW, EVGA 650 P2 PSU, Fractal R4 case, 500GB Samsung EVO SSD, 2TB HDD with 3 connected monitors.

Yesterday night I tried to load up some books in my kindle. I connected the Kindle through front USB Port and instantly got a BSOD. Thogught thats rather weird, the PC booted up normally so I tried again - same thing happened. 

I thought that it might be because of USB 3.0, so I tried connecting it to another port, with the same result. Shrugged it off and went to bed without any books.

I wake up today - the PC doesnt work, and specifically - none of the monitors turn on, doesn't even show the BIOS splashscreen.

I have 2 monitors plugged in the GPU through DVI and Displayport, and the 3rd monitor through VGA directly in the motherboard. I removed the GPU and tried to connect it just through the motherboard (VGA), but same result.

Any ideas on what happened, and how can I fix this? Everything else seems to be working, Fans spinning, LEDs lighting up.

Thanks in advance,
A.

[TrigrH]

maybe try disconnecting the USB 3.0 header then booting

[Bittenfleax]

6 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

maybe try disconnecting the USB 3.0 header then booting

 

10 minutes ago, Archijs said:

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And if that does not work, disconnect everything apart from the PSU and Memory (obviously leave the CPU in) and boot. So EVERYTHING out apart from critical things that are needed.

[Archijs]

Disconnected everything, same situation.

 

I did a power cycle, as well as CMOS reset, same story.

[PaintChips]

If you're running Windows 10+Anniversary Update that is a known bug related to the removal of PowerShell with an unknown time frame for the fix, you're either stuck rolling back to 1511 then selecting deferred updates(if you have Windows Pro, this is considered "stable Windows" vs mainstream consumer OS updates) or waiting. News story at Ars about the situation of horrible Windows 10 Insider Feedback being ignored: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/kindle-crashes-and-broken-powershell-something-isnt-right-with-windows-10-testing/

 

Personally this is why I'm still dual-booting an older Windows, the amount of problems going on isn't worth risking workflow breakage.