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Windows 10 Pro Installation Starts, Screen Goes Black, Never to Return
This is on my 4K video editing super workstation that I built in Aug 2015, and have been running Windows 7 Pro on since:
I bought a new 250GB SSD drive, installed it, disconnected all other drives and am trying to install Windows 10 Pro now as a clean installation.
Prior to this, I contacted Supermicro to verify that this board is compatible with Windows 10 and that was an affirmative from them.
So today, I got the new drive installed and power up the machine, watching the Supermicro logo and BIOS post messages on my screen in crisp, high resolution. Then the BD-RE drive starts to read the Windows 10 install disc and the monitor goes black. And stays black. The LED on the drive stopped flickering after a minute. But still no display. It has been 18 minutes now and still no display. I suspect Setup is waiting for input, but I can't see the screen to proceed further.
Just to be sure, I cycled the power and put in my Windows 7 DVD and after a long period of black screen (about a minute), I get the installer window in 640x480 16 colors. So I shut down and power back up and put in the Windows 10 DVD. But this one never loads. I just used this install media to build two other workstations this week, so the media is good. One old Dell T7400 and one new Asus Z390-A both show a Windows logo and a rotating array of dots during Setup loading. But not this dual Xeon.
Hardware on the trouble PC is:
Supermicro X10DRi motherboard
dual Xeon E5-2667 CPUs
128GB RAM
MSI GTX1080Ti
Pri display: HP LP3065
Sec display: LG 31MU97B
Boot drive (blank) Crucial 250GB SSD
I've already wasted half the day on this failed attempt. Is there anything else, perhaps a BIOS setting? that I can try before I shelve this and just reinstall a new Windows 7 setup?