Last night I decided to take my pc upstairs to play some 2k with my roommates on the big tv. HDMI. My main monitor is actually just a 24 inch HDTV which I have used since I built the pc, and has always and only been through HDMI. Anyways, it worked last night, 2k was fine, and afterward I powered it off and took it back to my desk to reassemble today and then went to sleep. Today, I plugged everything back in, and I turns on and seems normal but my TV didn't detect a display. I thought it was my HDMI cord which is getting jiggly, so I grabbed the cord from my ps3 and plugged it in instead. Nothing. Triple checked the channel and connection, opened my case and reseated the card in the pci-e slot, nothing. Hooked up my roomate's dvi monitor, nothing. Changed pci-e slots and 6-pin, nothing. The fans spin so it has power. It seems to think its working. I have, as stated in the title, no onboard graphics so I can't just find a trusty old vga monitor and roll back drivers or system restore. Everything has worked in this exact configuration for months so it seems like it is either something in the latest nvidia drivers that doesn't like it when you switch TVs or the card is toast. Short of biting the bullet and getting another gpu, does anyone have a potentially simple solution that hasn't occurred to me? Thank you anyone and everyone who tries to help me with this.
UPDATE:
my roommate had a spare graphics card that I plugged in and it, also, did not work. No signal detected. I tried that one on multiple pci-e slots as well. System fans work, DVD drive works, hard drives seem to be hard driving. I am at a loss as to what to try short of resorting to geek squad or a Craigslist pro. I've never had to divert to a pc repairman before and don't want to start now, but this is giving me no leads whatsoever. My roommate had a gtx 670 in his machine I'm going to try next, but I feel like I'm in for more of the same. Since it initially let me into bios through HDMI before I had a hard drive in it I guess I'll try removing the hard drive if that fails. Anyone got a suggestion?
UPDATE 2
none of the above worked. Still nothing. No beeps, no post, fans and lights work. I'm thinking the CPU may have failed, which in this case would be preferable since a new CPU is about $100 cheaper than a new gpu.
UPDATE:
my roommate had a spare graphics card that I plugged in and it, also, did not work. No signal detected. I tried that one on multiple pci-e slots as well. System fans work, DVD drive works, hard drives seem to be hard driving. I am at a loss as to what to try short of resorting to geek squad or a Craigslist pro. I've never had to divert to a pc repairman before and don't want to start now, but this is giving me no leads whatsoever. My roommate had a gtx 670 in his machine I'm going to try next, but I feel like I'm in for more of the same. Since it initially let me into bios through HDMI before I had a hard drive in it I guess I'll try removing the hard drive if that fails. Anyone got a suggestion?
UPDATE 2
none of the above worked. Still nothing. No beeps, no post, fans and lights work. I'm thinking the CPU may have failed, which in this case would be preferable since a new CPU is about $100 cheaper than a new gpu.
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