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Monitor says it's not receiving signal when booting into safe mode

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So I've been having issues with my PC since I built it, I've deleted and reinstalled my driver's, but WhoCrashed still says I have driver issues, anyways, I tried booting into safe mode to DDU my driver's and now my monitor says it's receiving no signal. I've tried a Display Port cable and HDMI cable. I've tried the HDMi cable on my GPU and Mobo directly, but neither works. I don't even know if I can safely turn my PC off in the state it's in rn or if it'll damage something

Edit: I just turned my PC off and on again, works now
 
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Going into safe mode doesn't use the GPU driver, it just uses a standard VGA driver to display the image. So even if you were having a GPU driver issue when running Windows normally, going into Safe Mode means the faulty GPU driver isn't even used.

I can't say I've ever seen an issue getting an image to display when entering Safe Mode, be it from using a monitor with a DP, HDMI, DVI or even VGA cables.

I have had a monitor try to auto detect the input and pick a wrong one before after starting in Safe Mode. Manually changing the input to the correct one resolved it and brought the image up.

If you're still having issues with things be sure to fill out your hardware specs in your profile. Then let us know the issues and things you've tried to resolve it so we can further assist you.
 
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