Author: JookycolaSubject: No video... At all.
Posted: 23 Dec 2018 at 3:29pm
So my H81M-HDS mobo worked flawlessly for the past 3.5 years. I do a lot of photography so i decided to upgrade it fully. I added two 2tb HDD's and 2x8 (16gb) of new ram. fired it up and all hell broke lose. the thing wouldn't boot past the "ASRock" logo. Well.....it does boot up, but nothing appears on the screen after that logo. I tried everything...but then it got crazy. it would only allow input for about 10 seconds then all input (typing, keystrokes, anything) then the screen would lock. and I'd have to re-boot....and i'd get another 10 seconds to try and fix things. I did this about 1000 times, i even pulled the cmos battery. So then i decided to do a bios reflash.
i should have known better. the damn thing froze and corrupted the mobo.
I have win7, DDR3, and a 1150 intel chip. The computer is barely 3 years old. Ireally don't want to blow a huge wad of cash to get a new mobo, another new processor, all new DDR4 ram and a fresh copy of Win10 (that most of my photgraphy software is not compatable with)
So i found a used working H81M-HDS mobo, plugged everything in, fired it up....absolutely no video at all. no boot up screen, no bios...nothing. but the computer will run and i hear the HDD booting it up. So i bought a PCI-e Graphics card....plugged in the HDMI...fired it up again....same....damn...thing. No video output at all.
Are these mobos commonly prone to GPU or HDMI failure? that's 2 mobos....same problem. And why wouldn't the new GPU card bypass this non-sense and give me video out?
I'm pretty upset since a new computer will be about $500 or more to build. that's not counting having to get a few new peices of all new software that works with win10. It seems a quick google search on the mobo shows asrock has a GRU/HDMI failure issue with many boards from that era (2014/15) But i have yet to find anything on my exact board.
Is there even anything i can do?