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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Haus of Tech Support > Black screen, garbled output, or black flashing when booting OS
 
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Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014

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What's the output like if you use integrated graphics? The HDMI, DVI-D, and VGA ports on the motherboard don't use the graphics card, so you should be able to see Windows at least to do any driver modification.

When the screen goes black, does the monitor stay awake or does it go into low-power mode?

There's a UEFI/BIOS update for your motherboard released last month that "Improve System Stability". Might be worth it to flash to the latest before troubleshooting components.
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z170M-PLUS/HelpDesk_Download/

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