Windows 10: Win10 install killed video output

I was upgrading a perfectly functional, 5 year old, Win7 desktop to Win10 using the media creation tool on a USB drive. When I had tried on-line upgrading this machine got hung up on "checking for updates" which is why I went to the MCT and disabled updates up front. After the "Installing Windows 10" message came up, I left the room. When I returned about an hour later the monitor was blank with the message "no input". The only sign of activity was the fairly regular blinking of the LED for the SSD where Windows is installed. I let it run for 8 hrs. like this. Then I hit reset...still no video so no visible POST and the SSD LED returned to blinking. Then I did a hard power down...same thing. I haven't built another computer since this one in 2011, where do I start?

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OK, I'm stumped and out of ideas (Win10 crashing)

As I suspected, there isn't really much left on my system drive after the format and failed installs, so unfortunately there are no minidumps or memory.dmp files available.

Here is a link to my speccy txt output and a pic of the scrambled BSOD I've had to witness quite often:

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One thing I've found odd, is that most of my non-Win10 boot discs seem to load fine (ex. SeaTools, Memtest, Win7 Recovery), but whenever I attempt to load a Win10 based system (disc or USB Win10 install) I get BSOD'd.

This PC is about 7 years old, and I'm almost ready to bite the bullet and purchase a new one. Unfortunate since this one has 8GB RAM, two big HDDs installed, and was running just fine up until a few weeks ago

Win10 seems to be killing me.

 

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OK mate



This was the output:



home/user # /etc/init.d/catblock stop

Stopping: CATblock daemon: catblock-daemon

Process not killed: not found, not root or kill failed

/home/user #

 

If you're not getting a POST display, you have problems beyond the OS.

All that I can suggest that doesn't involve real hardware troubleshooting is clearing the CMOS.