GPU not being detected by motherboard

AJBlaine

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Good evening,

My primary HDD, containing my OS, crashed, causing me to run a fresh install of Win7 Pro on a new HDD. Ever since then, I'm unable to access my GPu, GTX 960. Both monitors are connected to the card, but Device Manager lists only a standard PnP monitor and a "Standard VGA adapter". Msinfo32 displays the same.

After reading through several forums on here, I attempted some of the suggestions that have been offered, the most recent of which was to re-seat the card, making sure that there was a solid connection to both the mainboard and psu. I disabled the "standard VGA adapter" through DevMgr, on the off chance that upon restart the mainboard would attempt to use the PCIe lane instead. No luck.

I would happily try another PCIe lane, but alas, my board only has one.

I'm not really sure what to do from here.

MSI FM2-A72MA-E35, Mainboard
AMD A6-6400K @ 3.9Ghz, CPU
Nvidia Geforce GTX 960, GPU
16GB
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

Any help or advice that can be passed would be greatly appreciated. I'm really considering taking Mr. Wozniak up on his words about trusting computers.
 
Usually if it only says "standard VGA adapter" it's because you don't have the right driver installed. Have you done that already? Which monitor are you using?

EDIT: Also do you have the AMD gpu drivers installed? Because you should really not have them installed when you're using an Nvidia card.
 

AJBlaine

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I'm using an 19" VGA-DVI. No additional drivers for the card have been loaded yet. I'm don't believe that the AMD gpu drivers are installed, but frankly I'm not sure. msinfo32 shows plenty of AMD drivers under the subcategory "System Drivers", but I see nothing which might indicate a gpu driver.
 

AJBlaine

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I think you might be magic. The last time I tried that, the drivers seemed to install correctly, but when I restarted the machine, it promptly blue screened. So far so good. Thank you very much.