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Black Screen follows Win 7 clean install on all DVI cards/monitors
Wow, I really didn't expect this problem in Win 7.
My PC has recently been throwing up blue-screen errors during backups, so I decided to start the New Year with a completely new install of Windows 7.
Spec:
ASUS Sabretooth motherboard
2 x Radeon 6870 cards in Crossfire
1 x OCR SSD
2 x 1TB HDs (Western Dig) in RAID
16GB DDR3 RAM
The install was going great and went through all the initial stages no problem... The, on the final stage, she froze.
I left her for a wee while hoping the problem was a glitch but after about an hour stuck on the BIOS screen, I decided to hit the power button and do a re-start.
After I pressed the power button, I could hear the machine whirring away, but absolutely nothing came onto my screens.
It's important that you understand that NOTHING came onto the screens. It was as thought someone had removed the connections to the monitors. The both remained black.
I took out both the Radeons and replaced with an older MSI (DVI) card... nothing.
I've read around a bit and apparently WIN 7 has a preference for the old-school VGA cards, so a buddy is bringing one down to see if we can see something, ANYTHING, on one of my monitors using only VGA!
So my question is: given Windows has nothing to do with the BIOS, why is it that after trying to install WIN 7, I see absolutely nothing whatsoever?
Does Win 7 send some instruction to the motherboard looking for a VGA connection or did Santa steal something when he left me that pack of socks??
Looking forward to your insights on this guys as I am completely dumbfounded... losing all monitor activity is something I've never seen before in a failed install.
Cheers and Happy New Year to all
:)