Hey so I've been having major problems with my windows 10 desktop
Basically, my story starts off with a sudden crash caused by (I think) an overheating gpu whilst playing a casual game of civilisation V.
My desktop is an ACER AME600-EB398 supporting some no-name motherboard (acer inc. ipimb-ar), an Intel i7 3770 which is pretty good, a measely 300W of continuous power, a 2TB hard drive, a 16Gb SSD containing only Windows 10, an optical drive and a Nvidia GT630.
The crash lead to a blue screen with an error code 0xc000014c which I was able to fix, with massive difficulty, thanks to a boot drive that I create using the laptop I am currently using. The reason why I did not simply use a Windows recovery disk is because windows 8 came preinstalled on my computer, and of course I did not have a windows 10 cd. After repairing the blue screen and entering my computer, there were some major problems such as my inability to open the windows search or the inability to open certain apps. I was then doing some research on how to repair the problems when an error message popped up saying "Windows detected a hard dive problem", I then concluded that, based off of the blue screen crash, the instruction page given to me by Windows accompanying the error message (which I will add below), and the newly found difficulties, windows (and thus my SSD containing windows) was severely corrupted.
I then decided to try and repair the SSD with the aid of the internet, suggesting that I try to repair it using a windows Recover Disk (which I do not possess), the command prompt function ChkDsk, or a windows boot drive requiring a windows recovery code (which I also do not possess but I could find IF i had the ability to open the app ProduKey which would allow me to extract the key and Factory Reset my computer and then reinstalling windows with the help of the product key).
I decided to use the Chkdsk command. At first, I ran it in read-only mode where it encountered a few problems with my computer which it cannot repair in read-only mode. Then, I ran it using /r /f /v and /b which I read might take a lot of time, which is something I have, and works very efficiently to repair corrupted drives.
After letting the repair run for ~8 hours, whilst it was stuck at 10% which I read is normal, my desktop just crashed. Unfortunately I was not present to notice what happened, but when I turned my computer back on, my monitor does not respond and says "No Signal" as if the desktop is not on.
And that let me here, to this forum, where I saw similar, but different threads and I have come to seek help in this hopeless journey
BTW, I've also recently bought a Corsair CX500 power supply which provides 500W of continuous power in order to compensate for my new MSI GeForce GTX970 which I was planning on installing in my desktop.
TL;DR My monitor does not respond to my desktop and only displays a black screen when I turn it on as if it's not connected at all ("No Signal")
Thanks for you help
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Disk Name: SanDisk SSD U100 16GB
Volume: Unknown
Statistics: Posted by Jason_J — Yesterday, 19:39