Error message then no longer loading windows

Westindieman

Last night I was playing Fifa then it paused and there was an error message in a little box which I glanced at and think it said something about graphics (should have taken more notice). I closed the box and Fifa disappeared so I tried to reload it but nothing happened. I rebooted the system (Windows 10) which got to the little blue window screen after the spinning dots, then the monitor switched off as if nothing was plugged in. Rebooted and the same happened. I booted into safe mode which strangely had no network connection and was empty when I went to look at network connection details. I uninstalled then reinstalled graphics but the same boot process happened. I loaded Trueimage and recovered a backup but the same happened again, so I have no idea what the issue is and whether its a graphics issue or motherboard. The card is Nvidia Geforce GT 670. Can anyone suggest please?

DavidG1

Could be any of these - Faulty graphics card, faulty hard drive, bad RAM , bad PSU, less likely faulty motherboard. Test the hard drive for errors, Remove all but one stick of RAM, If your system has onboard graphics, remove the card and try to boot without the card. If you haven’t got onboard graphics I would take it to a tech for them to figure which part is faulty. The only way is to replace with known good working parts

Westindieman

The hard drive is partitioned and there is a separate partition with the backup. Safe mode boots and the drive is fine and accessible and I can restore backups from the drive with no issues so I would have thought a faulty drive unlikely. I will check the RAM when I get home but I don't have on board graphics. One thing I did notice is that when the monitor goes blank the keyboard goes lights out too, so that did make me wonder if it could be the board.

EndlessWaves

Often a faulty drive or memory would manifest as corruption during the restore, or different behaviour after it.

Safe mode doesn't load the network drivers by default (they're non-essential), you have to specifically select safe mode with networking.

Liftplus

I know it may sound funny but... check all the cables. I once had a similar problem, ended up with a faulty hdd cable.

Westindieman

I believe I found it to be an error on the SSD system drive. Windows 10 has 2 hidden partitions and I was trying to run a surface scan on the first part but Partition Magic keep crashing. I swapped out the drive and everything works OK so now I am re-formatting the SSD and will try it again.
Thanks

Westindieman

Its  definately the drive, I solved it myself.