No Signal To Monitor

[tobpal]

Hello there,

I have had my PC Specialist Desktop now for over 3 years (3 years and 11 days to be exact), and have never had any issues with it until now.

It suddenly today will no longer send any signal to either of my monitors, though the lights are on, fans are spinning and my Keyboard and Mouse lights are on too.

In the past years the PC would always beep once during the boot sequence - that's normal. Now it beeps once and the monitor turns on (staying on a black screen though), but after aprox 10 to 15 seconds a second (different!) beep sounds. Shortly thereafter my keyboard and mouse lights come on but the monitor remains dark.

I have tested it on both monitors individually and across both inbuilt and dedicated HDMI and DisplayPort slots - always the same issue. I tested the monitors on my laptop and both are in working order, responding immediately to the HDMI input.

I'm at a bit of a loss - I'm trying to understand the Asus Beep Code, but the truth is that the second beep is so far removed and different from the first Successful POST beep that the second beep seems unrelated to it.

Here are my specs:
Case SHARKOON BD28 GAMING CASE (Green LED)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard ASUS® MAXIMUS VIII RANGER: RoG, PCI-e 3.0, SATA 3.0, LG1151
Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)
Graphics Card 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!

Would anyone know what the issue might be? I'll see if I can record a quick vid on my phone and upload it as a file into this thread too.

 

[tobpal]

New post in case links aren't allowed by new accounts

You can view the full process here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1g6gDUjBTB43l57SrxGJEfMjZlM8ftZaz

Timestamp:
- Post Beep at 8 seconds
- Sad Beep at 34 seconds
- Monitor detects input but doesnt show anything at 1:07 minutes
- Keyboard and Mouse lights up at 1:15 minutes

An additional note - after a while I hit CTRL+ALT+Delete and blindly entered my password. This seemed to work and I could hear the start up sounds from Windows, but the monitor remains dark

 

[ubuysa]

Can you remove the graphics card and plug one monitor into the motherboard GPU port so you're using the iGPU in the Intel CPU? Does it boot ok then? Obviously if it does it's a graphics card issue, that's the main suspect since you can hear the Windows login.....

 

[tobpal]

Can you remove the graphics card and plug one monitor into the motherboard GPU port so you're using the iGPU in the Intel CPU? Does it boot ok then? Obviously if it does it's a graphics card issue, that's the main suspect since you can hear the Windows login.....

thank you for the reply. I had this same thought this morning and gave it a go. Same issue except now the second beep doesn't occur.

 

[tobpal]

I took my to a local PC repair shop, who switched my GPU out with a lab test one they had and it resolved the issue. I bought a new GPU and it's all okay now.

It would seem that my GTX 1070 just up and died after just over 3 years of working. This is surely unusual for an NVidia card? Or are they known to develop such faults?

Note that I don't move my desktop around much so it doesn't take any knocks or is manhandled in any way...

Also, it's a little odd that my onboard GPU didn't want to pick up or send any signal, even with all other GPU's disconnected?

 

[SpyderTracks]

I took my to a local PC repair shop, who switched my GPU out with a lab test one they had and it resolved the issue. I bought a new GPU and it's all okay now.

It would seem that my GTX 1070 just up and died after just over 3 years of working. This is surely unusual for an NVidia card? Or are they known to develop such faults?

Note that I don't move my desktop around much so it doesn't take any knocks or is manhandled in any way...

Also, it's a little odd that my onboard GPU didn't want to pick up or send any signal, even with all other GPU's disconnected?

Any component can fail at any time, it's totally luck of the draw which is why it's really important to have good warranties with PC hardware.

Unfortunately the nVidia warranty is 3 years.

Unless it's another manufacturer? Some manufacturers will give 5 years on gpu's.

 

[tobpal]

Any component can fail at any time, it's totally luck of the draw which is why it's really important to have good warranties with PC hardware.

Unfortunately the nVidia warranty is 3 years.

Unless it's another manufacturer? Some manufacturers will give 5 years on gpu's.

It was a standard 1070 so Warranty unfortunately was 3 years from what I checked... Missed it by a week

I picked up a Gigebyte 2070 now. Fingers crossed...!

 

[SpyderTracks]

It was a standard 1070 so Warranty unfortunately was 3 years from what I checked... Missed it by a week

I picked up a Gigebyte 2070 now. Fingers crossed...!

Gutted, but 2070 is a nice recovery! Sure you'll be pleased. My GPU is gigabyte and I've been extremely happy with it.

Unfortunately any component can fail at any time, it really is luck of the draw.

You can mitigate failures to some extent by keeping temps down as much as possible, but other than that, just have to pray to the silicon gods to watch over your hardware