Came home from work and my graphics card is suddenly not detected.

guymontagz

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Jun 14, 2016
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Title really says it. Came home from work today and my monitors wouldn't turn on. Did all of the basic things, took out the GPU, cleaned it and put it back, still nothing. When I run it through my BIOS it's simply just not recognizing that it's there but the fan and lights still turn on so I know it's getting power. I've seen some forum posts about installing drivers but those were typically in reference to new builds and this happened while I was away at work and the computer was in sleep mode. Luckily the mother board display is working in the meantime so I know it's not an issue with my monitors. I'm kind of at a loss for what it might be, I've only had the build since last July and I haven't really run it hard on anything.

Specs
Board: MSI H81M-P33 LGA1150/ Intel H81/ DDR3/ SATA3&USB3.0/ A&GbE/ MicroATX Motherboard
Power: EVGA 600B Bronze 100-B1-0600-KR 600W 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V & EPS12V Power Supply
GPU: XFX Double Dissipation R9-290A-EDFD Radeon R9 290
RAM: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM D
CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 Haswell Processor 3.2GHz 5.0GT/s 6MB LGA 1150 CPU
 
Solution
Hello,

It could really be anything at this point. I would focus on the easier components to test, like your GPU, Ram and any other hardware you can easily swap.

Start by removing the power to your hard drives and ALL usb peripherals. Unplug everything from the case. Try turning the motherboard on with just the bare essentials plugged in (monitor, gpu, 1 stick of ram, mobo, and nothing else) Dont need a mouse and keybaord to Post into your motherboard bios. see if that works. Can you try another GPU or swap some components with another system?

Mark at XFX

XFX_Support

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Hello,

It could really be anything at this point. I would focus on the easier components to test, like your GPU, Ram and any other hardware you can easily swap.

Start by removing the power to your hard drives and ALL usb peripherals. Unplug everything from the case. Try turning the motherboard on with just the bare essentials plugged in (monitor, gpu, 1 stick of ram, mobo, and nothing else) Dont need a mouse and keybaord to Post into your motherboard bios. see if that works. Can you try another GPU or swap some components with another system?

Mark at XFX
 
Solution