- Apr 26, 2015
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Hi!
Yesterday I was using my PC just fine, editing videos, playing games. Until I launched Left 4 Dead 2. The game kept freezing, until I tabbed out, tabbed back in. It was then freeze again after 5 or so seconds. Eventually, it froze up my computer, crashed it and threw a "blue screen of death".
I rebooted my PC and now whenever I tried launching a game, after a minute or so, my screen would go black and a message would pop up saying my display driver failed, but recovered. Eventually this would happen so many times that all my windows would be completely black, and no icons were visible. Restart the PC, and everything is OK for a few minutes before that whole thing happens again.
I thought that maybe since I hadn't cleaned my PC in about 2 years, it might be overheating, although it felt cool enough. This morning I used compressed air and cleaned it out. Plugged everything back in, and turned it on. The HDMI Setting on my Samsung Monitor now says "No signal" whenever my HDMI cable is in, and when I unplug it, it says that I need to connect a cable in. Proving that it KNOWS the cable is in, just doesn't show anything.
My PC displays fine when I switch from the "HDMI" setting to the "PC" setting on my monitor, however the resolution is messed up, and I can't even open the Nvidia control panel. Anywhere I look on the PC, it seems to find no sign of my graphics card. I downloaded the latest driver for my card, but it wouldn't let me install it as it said that it didn't detect any graphics hardware that could use that driver.
I haven't gotten that black screen, "driver failed but then restored" problem ever since, and the PC runs fine.(Although with a really weird resolution).I can't play any high-end games like Just Cause 2, but can run Binding of Isaac fine. (Because it runs in flash, obviously). I've tested and the HDMI cable isn't the problem, and the monitor works just fine.
My guess is that the graphics card is just faulty. Probably the HDMI port on it is messed up, but I'm not an expert so I thought I'd ask what you all thought. Any suggestions on what I can try?
Thanks everyone
Yesterday I was using my PC just fine, editing videos, playing games. Until I launched Left 4 Dead 2. The game kept freezing, until I tabbed out, tabbed back in. It was then freeze again after 5 or so seconds. Eventually, it froze up my computer, crashed it and threw a "blue screen of death".
I rebooted my PC and now whenever I tried launching a game, after a minute or so, my screen would go black and a message would pop up saying my display driver failed, but recovered. Eventually this would happen so many times that all my windows would be completely black, and no icons were visible. Restart the PC, and everything is OK for a few minutes before that whole thing happens again.
I thought that maybe since I hadn't cleaned my PC in about 2 years, it might be overheating, although it felt cool enough. This morning I used compressed air and cleaned it out. Plugged everything back in, and turned it on. The HDMI Setting on my Samsung Monitor now says "No signal" whenever my HDMI cable is in, and when I unplug it, it says that I need to connect a cable in. Proving that it KNOWS the cable is in, just doesn't show anything.
My PC displays fine when I switch from the "HDMI" setting to the "PC" setting on my monitor, however the resolution is messed up, and I can't even open the Nvidia control panel. Anywhere I look on the PC, it seems to find no sign of my graphics card. I downloaded the latest driver for my card, but it wouldn't let me install it as it said that it didn't detect any graphics hardware that could use that driver.
I haven't gotten that black screen, "driver failed but then restored" problem ever since, and the PC runs fine.(Although with a really weird resolution).I can't play any high-end games like Just Cause 2, but can run Binding of Isaac fine. (Because it runs in flash, obviously). I've tested and the HDMI cable isn't the problem, and the monitor works just fine.
My guess is that the graphics card is just faulty. Probably the HDMI port on it is messed up, but I'm not an expert so I thought I'd ask what you all thought. Any suggestions on what I can try?
Thanks everyone
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