What Could Be My Problem?

[saltbox23k]

Hi guys,

 

So I’ve been using my pc happily over the past 5 months, ever since I built in in may. Here are my specs:

 

i7 7700K OCed

Asus Maximus IX Formula

32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200mhz

NZXT X52

EVGA GTX 1080Ti FTW3 OCed

EVGA G3 1000watt

And some other storage devices and of course, the case.

 

My monitor that I’ve been using is the Dell S2716DG, which I have hooked up to my pc via DisplayPort. This evening, I decided to just run some Firestrike benchmarks, to see how much of a performance increase I’d gotten after OCing my CPU and GPU. I have been using the same OC settings for both my CPU and GPU for over a month now, but only decided to benchmark my system now. Anyways, I touched absolutely nothing in or out of my pc (other than the power button initially), and touched nothing on my monitor. I ran the benchmarks, for my results, then shut down for the night. A few hours later I got bored and decided to play a bit of R6S, but, after I clicked the power button, I noticed that my monitor turned on, but simply stayed at an illuminated black screen (the screen was on, but nothing displayed). It didn’t show a windows symbol, the ROG symbol (since my mobo is an ROG mobo) or anything. Just, black. So far, here’s what I’ve tried to fix it:

 

1) Turn off my pc and turn it back on (same results)

2) Unplugging my pc from the power outlet then plugging it back in (same results)

3) Unplugging my monitor from the outlet, turning on my pc, plugging my monitor back into the outlet (Dell symbol appeared, then a dell version of “searching for signal”, then after a few moments, the back screen)

4) Disconnecting the DP from my pc, powering on my pc, then reconnecting the DP (same black screen)

5) Cryjng over the thought of having lost my pc (same results)

6) Using a different DP on my gpu (same results)

 

What I will try tomorrow:

 

1) Trying a new DP on my monitor

2) Trying the DP on my motherboard (iGPU)

3) Trying a new DP cable

4) ???

 

I’m kind of confused on this one. Everything on my pc powers on (from what I can tell), GPU LEDs turn on, CPU cooler LEDs turn on, motherboard LEDs turn on, even ram LEDs turn on. I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions as to what else I can do to figure out my problem. I would preferably like to keep opening up my pc and reseating my cpu/GPU/ram as a last resort, but if that’s what it takes I’ll do it I guess lol. Thanks all.

 

[Princess Luna]

Unplug it from the wall, hold power button for 30 seconds then reset the cmos, wait a minute and then plug all back in and try starting it

[saltbox23k]

4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Unplug it from the wall, hold power button for 30 seconds then reset the cmos, wait a minute and then plug all back in and try starting it

Unplug the pc, monitor, or both?

 

Thanks for the reply

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, saltbox23k said:

Unplug the pc, monitor, or both?

 

Thanks for the reply

The PC, this is an all around reset for overclocks to get all back to stock, if it was the overclock that caused the issue this should get your PC to boot again, it's worth to note that if you have a gread amount of connected drives you should be patient as it's booting might get slow even if windows is in a SSD.

[saltbox23k]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

The PC, this is an all around reset for overclocks to get all back to stock, if it was the overclock that caused the issue this should get your PC to boot again, it's worth to note that if you have a gread amount of connected drives you should be patient as it's booting might get slow even if windows is in a SSD.

Ok thank you.

 

Other than resetting my CPU/GPU overclock, does clearing the cmos change anything else?

[Princess Luna]

Just now, saltbox23k said:

Ok thank you.

 

Other than resetting my CPU/GPU overclock, does clearing the cmos change anything else?

It sets the BIOS to default, which is the way it was the first time you got in there.