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Question

PC won’t detect monitor, mouse, or keyboard

Oct 2, 2018 6:50PM PDT

I recently received my friends old gaming pc as a birthday gift, and everything has been great until about two days ago. It goes to update windows, and by sheer coincidence: power outage. Now the computer won’t detect my monitor, my keyboard, or my mouse. The fans spin, the lights are on, the hard drive makes it’s regular noises. What’s wrong with my PC?

The specs are:

- 16 gigs of ram
- AMD Radeon r9 200 series
- An 8 core AMD CPU
- 2 1tb hard drives

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Answer
Re: power outage
Oct 3, 2018 12:38AM PDT
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Re: Re: power outage
Oct 3, 2018 9:22AM PDT

Didn’t work, the keyboard, monitor, and mouse didn’t connect.

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Didn't work
Oct 3, 2018 5:49PM PDT

What did not work?

When you power on do you get a bios splash screen?