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PC Starting up with black screen

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Hello I'm hoping someone could help me with an issue I have with my PC.

Around 2 months ago, I tried turning on my PC and I got the error ''Repairing disk errors. This may take over an hour to complete.'' I had it turned on for over a day, and tried this for a week or so. But nothing fixed the issue.

I have a roommate who tried to google around to figure out how to fix the issue. He basically unplugged the SSD and re-booted my PC with windows from a USB if I remember correctly. (I'm not a tech nerd by any means, neither is my roommate, but he's a bit smart than me)

Then the issue was that this was only a temporary solution as PC booted without the SSD, and I honestly had no idea what was going on with my PC at all anymore, or how to fix this. Then I got a new error. Sometimes when starting the PC up I would get an error I don't remember exactly what it said but something along the lines of ''Choose a different booting device blah blah''. Then it wouldn't start up no matter how many times I tried to re-boot. But then the day after it would work fine, and basically it ended up only working every other day when I tried to turn it on.

So I finally got enough as I wanted it fixed, so I sent it to a PC technician but I live in a country which is not ''too involved with electronics'' I guess you could say. He fixed the issue somewhat, but now the issue is that every other time I turn on the PC it goes black screen. Simple re-boot solves the issue. Usually I would turn on the PC get 2x black screens and then after the 2nd/3rd re-boot it would boot correctly. This a re-occurring problem. The PC technician said it is most likely due to the graphics card but he wasn't 100% sure.

PC is 2 years old, and is a gamer PC.

Do you guys have any ideas which could help me, please? As I am getting quite desperate now.
 
Hi Mikeguy8, Welcome to PCHF! :)

I would first put the computer in a clean boot state and see if the black screen issue continues to happen, How to perform a clean boot in Windows.

Also please enter your System Details. It helps us in answering your questions, thanks.
Thanks for replying to me, Evan. I've added my system details. As far as clean boot, I don't think it would be any difference as my PC has been reset twice to factory settings since the problem started
 
Have you updated your motherboards BIOS to the latest version? Have you tried removing all other bootable devices except for the SSD/HDD and see if that helps? Are you overclocking any components?

Have you tried using the integrated video chip on your CPU instead of your dedicated video card to see if that makes any difference?
 
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