WIndows Blanking after post?

[Coral]

Hi Everyone...

 

My PC has been acting strange after i relocated my setup just a few short days ago. During gaming, it has a tendency to just lock up randomly, without caution (i.e. the screen just freezes at the latest frame, the DAC is screaming in pain, and the PC doesn't respond to any command. Not even the reset button is responsive). 

 

I Could live with that, but in the last couple of hours, it has developed another flaw that is rather more troubling. 

 

After starting up the PC, waiting patiently for the Windows boot screen to load.... Nothing happens. The monitor is visibly on, but it doesn't display anything.

 

I have tried seemingly every step in the book, cleared CMOS, Tried BIOS B, messed around with the DP cables, messed around around with my two SSD's/RAM, But I can't for the life of me get the thing running again. I'm sure I've missed something, but I just can't think of it. 

 

And yeah, I've tried to stick a USB drive with an ISO file in it, and tried to boot off that. No luck. 

 

Do any of you have suggestions that might help this PoS run another day?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Specs:

 

Intel i7 7820X (Running @ a stock frequency)

MSI X299 Xpower Gaming

GTX 1080 SLI (Again, no OC)

G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB (XMPed at 3200MHz)

Samsung 950 Pro 512GB M.2

Samsung 850 Evo 500gb SATA

EVGA G2 850w 80+ Gold

Watercooling

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

8 minutes ago, Coral said:

Thanks in advance

Sounds like a bad video card.

You have an SLI rig, pull one, try to boot. The replace it with the other and try to boot, see what happens. Report back

[Coral]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Sounds like a bad video card.

You have an SLI rig, pull one, try to boot. The replace it with the other and try to boot, see what happens. Report back

Hmm... 

 

Will try that right away.

[Coral]

24 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Sounds like a bad video card.

You have an SLI rig, pull one, try to boot. The replace it with the other and try to boot, see what happens. Report back

Came back with interesting results 

 

Tried both GPUs. Both appeared to be running smoothly with no errors. 

 

Rather flummoxed by this, I decided to try and hook up a backup install of windows on an extra SATA drive I had laying around. To my surprise, it actually booted up normally.

 

I'm now contemplating if the M.2 drive is shot, or if Win10 shit the bed.

[Radium_Angel]

3 hours ago, Coral said:

Win10 shit the bed

That's a common issue. One of the millions of reasons I won't run that OS.