Strange Video Problem

I have a system that all of a sudden does not display video after the W7 splash screen. This system has a graphics card in it and I had disabled the motherboards graphics port in the BIOS a couple years ago when I built it.

It has worked well ever since I built it but has changed due to either someone messing with it or maybe a windows update.

I currently have the system connected to a TV with an HDMI cable, but I have confirmed with an old monitor, it does the same using the VGA port.

I have also tried to repair using the Windows Repair Disk which strangely enough goes blank after the "Loading Files" screen.

All three options of safe mode stop after a certain amount of files that load. The screen does not go black here; it simply remains frozen with the file list showing.

I tried to do a fresh install of W10 and again goes black after the loading files.

Sorry I am being vague about the Hardware as I would typically look it up from the control panel and the boxes I had for the mother board, processor, GPU, etc are somewhere in the house and will have to find them.

Any ideas on what is going on? Maybe I need ot go into the bios and re-enable the onboard graphics and try that way.

ICIT2LOL - Thanks, sinc I get video during the splash screen I didnt think it would be a video card seating problem, but maybe you are right. I will check this.

The W10 reference was because I got so frustrated I thought I would try and install Windows 10 to see if the problem went away. The instalation didntallow me to get very far before the screen went dark so the system is still on W7.

ok, it is a sw problem. I removed all drives other than the SSD with the W7 OS on it, same problem, then I put an alternate SDD on the system and it booted up. I guess I had a test install of W10 on it and it seemed to be compatible with my build.

I guess I should connect the other SSD with the W7 OS just to see if I can browse it and confirm the SSD works. That is the only thing I can think that could be the problem.

...it wont let me log on in W10 as I have no idea what the password is. It also doesn't seem to have my proper network drivers so I cannot connect to my network. I did plug my W7 SSD into another SATA port and when turning on the system, it looked like W10 found some problems. Not sure if it was fixing something on the W10 SSD or the newly added W7 SSD.

So now wondering what my next steps should be.

I have connected the W7 SSD to another PC. I went into disk manager I tried to delete the two partitions so I could format, but it wouldnt let me. It wont even let me reformat each individual partitions. Maybe the SSD is shot and maybe the PC is hanging at the point where it wants to write to the SSD?

OK, I am able to reinstall W7 on the SSD that had W10 on it. So the problem was I had an SSD that was bad. I am going to just reinstall W7 on the SSD that had teh W10 image on it and call it a day. Actually with all of the W7 updates I will have to install, I may end up having to call it a day and a half.