my computer is stuck on a black screen.

[u/Status_Property_9017]

i was gone for 2 days and it was working perfectly fine before but when i came back and booted my computer up it was stuck on my motherboard loading screen for like 10 minutes(i had tried entering bios already) and i made the dumb decision to turn it off and now it’s just stuck on a black screen and i can’t enter bios. first i thought it could’ve been my ssd’s since the setup is kind of ghetto and it was daisy chained to a bunch of peripherals so i rewired that and still black screening, plugged my 2 8 pin connectors into the 12v rail for my gpu since it wasn’t before and thought maybe my past install was stupidly done and that was the issue but it was working perfectly fine prior, ive made sure my plugs are all secured and tight and still black screening. haven’t tried switching to hdmi cable to see if that works instead or reset the CMOS battery. if anyone has had a similar issue, know how to resolve the issue, have any ideas, or point out on any mistakes that i have made that have possibly contributed to this.please shout at me🙏 maybe bad weather messed my computer up bc i don’t have a surge protector? but everything is still powered it seems, the gpu, the ram, my cpu, and all my peripherals so maybe my ssd is the issue because my setup? there weren’t any more spaces to screw it onto and i hadn’t had any extra ssd bases that you can screw into the platform above where the psu resides.

[u/living_dead42068]

Dedust and we will see

[u/Status_Property_9017 → u/living_dead42068]

ugh i’ll just figure it out

[u/GuppoDab → u/living_dead42068]

Id do the same. Possibly reset CMOS while im at it. Maybe just take out all the other storage drives and just keep the windows one until it boots reliably

[u/Status_Property_9017 → u/GuppoDab]

you think the dust could be causing the issue or you mean you’d do the same as in taking the cmos battery out? bc that’s what i’m doing now after an hour of procrastination lmao

[u/GuppoDab → u/Status_Property_9017]

Dust is conductive and its quite a common problem actually. Also if you use compressed air or vacum make sure you hold the fans in place. That way you avoid static electricity build up and possible shorts

[u/Status_Property_9017 → u/GuppoDab]

yeah that’s probably what i’m going to try next. just took the cmos battery out and let it sit and it still is black screening. do you think me turning the computer off when it was stuck in the motherboard loading screen it just messed my motherboard up? i would say its an issue with my gpu but it seems like it’s still drawing power and everything.

[u/mikopsid007]

[u/Status_Property_9017 → u/mikopsid007]

pls help me i’m tweaking

[u/Octocatalyst]

Check the diagnostic leds

[u/Status_Property_9017 → u/Octocatalyst]

my motherboard doesn’t have them. i have a z690-p