I run BI for my cameras on a refurbished HP ENVY 750-247c.
The other night I shut everything down and let Windows apply their updates and reboot as I've done often before.
This time the computer never comes back up on screen.
The computer turns on when the power button is pressed; power light, fans come on, you can hear the DVD drive attempt to trigger, but then nothing. No beeps, no screen. The monitor remains blank then eventually flashes, "No signal" for a few seconds and back to black.
I tried all the trouble shooting steps on the HP site specific for this computer as well as trying a rescue DVD and USB thumb drive, tried all possible combinations of key holds prior to power up to attempt to get to a safe mode or bios etc with and without the SSD main drive disconnected but the computer never makes it past power on and then a blank screen.
I know this is not really a computer trouble shooting forum but thought I'd ask if anyone here has had similar experience for any direction or next steps.
I'm thinking for my next step to try buying a basic cheap video card that should work with any Windows installation, (swapping out the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 card that came with it; no video connection is available off the motherboard) and doing a VGA connection to the monitor on the off chance the issue has something to do with the Windows update not being compatible with the graphics card drivers.
Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated.
The other night I shut everything down and let Windows apply their updates and reboot as I've done often before.
This time the computer never comes back up on screen.
The computer turns on when the power button is pressed; power light, fans come on, you can hear the DVD drive attempt to trigger, but then nothing. No beeps, no screen. The monitor remains blank then eventually flashes, "No signal" for a few seconds and back to black.
I tried all the trouble shooting steps on the HP site specific for this computer as well as trying a rescue DVD and USB thumb drive, tried all possible combinations of key holds prior to power up to attempt to get to a safe mode or bios etc with and without the SSD main drive disconnected but the computer never makes it past power on and then a blank screen.
I know this is not really a computer trouble shooting forum but thought I'd ask if anyone here has had similar experience for any direction or next steps.
I'm thinking for my next step to try buying a basic cheap video card that should work with any Windows installation, (swapping out the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 card that came with it; no video connection is available off the motherboard) and doing a VGA connection to the monitor on the off chance the issue has something to do with the Windows update not being compatible with the graphics card drivers.
Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated.