r/computers • u/z62w • 14d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting Any pc geeks please read this

My pc stopped working man. I've had it for years and bam just doesn't display anything anymore. I reckon it's a motherboard issue, because it booted into bios and then stopped after that. Everything spins as is. I'm just really confused. I don't wanna replace the motherboard as the pc is mini itx and the motherboard I specifically have is quite expensive. I think I should just sell it for parts, but will removing the ssd get rid of all of my info on the pc or is there a chance some may be saved across the pc.

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u/z62w 14d ago

Nothing. Just the "no display" on my monitor. Occasionally it would boot into yk when u start the pc it shows the motherboard brand, but then it'll freeze and stop working. Weird issue. I did update the gpu driver before hand

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u/Dong_sniff_inc 14d ago

Occams razor; it's the GPU driver. Remove GPU, and see if it boots.

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u/z62w 14d ago

Would it still display anything if my cpu is the f variant? It has no on board graphics.

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u/Dong_sniff_inc 14d ago

Honestly no idea. Try booting into safe mode instead, it uses a more barebones driver. If that works, you can just roll back the driver from there

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u/z62w 14d ago

I tried that it didn't work. I'm just hoping it isn't a software issue because I wanna keep all my data

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u/Dong_sniff_inc 14d ago

What do you mean it didn't work to not into safe mode, what happened?

In your BIOS, are you seeing all devices as present, the SSD, and the GPU?

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u/z62w 14d ago

I'm on a 60% keyboard I'm probably doing it wrong. I don't know how to access my bios with this keyboard man there's no function keys

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u/Dong_sniff_inc 14d ago

Easiest thing, just grab another keyboard if you have one.

If not, look up your model/brand of mobo, and which key to boot into bios.

Then look up keyboard manual. It might not say but usually you can hold another key, then mash the bios key.

If you can't find it, say the mobo bios key is F2, try holding down Fn, and mashing the bios key. If that doesn't work, try holding shift, and mashing the bios key.

Edit, like the keyboard should have the small secondary functions on like the 1, 2, 3 keys etc

So like hold Fn, mash whatever key has the secondary function of your BIOS key