Black screen with non-flashing dash. Windows 10.

[Chip Anderson]

So I reboot my pc last night and it booted immediately to a black screen with a solid white dash. Not blinking at all. I rebooted and tried to get in to BIOS with no success. I disconnected every USB device, all connected drives and removed both sticks of ram. Booted to BIOS that time. Hooked everything back up minus one stick of RAM. Booted to windows. Placed second RAM module back into it's original DIMM and boom, black screen solid white dash. Switched the RAM modules from their original slots and got a clean boot. I am going to investigate this further today, but has anyone run into an issue like that?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Sounds like some of your RAM died? It can happen.

 

[Chip Anderson]

Strange thing is I have both sticks in currently and its running like a champion. I am going to reboot later tonight after I have backed everything up.

 

[Chip Anderson]

So I believe I solved my issue. My DisplayPort cables are 20-pin non certified cables instead of the VESA certified 19-pin connection. I realized that if only my DisplayPort cables were plugged in my top and rear chassis fans would still engage.