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tl;dr: Graphics card seems to be ignored despite the fact that the monitor clearly gets signal through the port. Driver installation tells me I don't have a valid graphics card (similar message to if I had a very outdated card from what my research tells me).
Full:
I'm using a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8G graphics card and a GIGABYTE GA-X150M-PRO ECC motherboard.
I recently rebuilt my PC after fixing a bootlooping problem. Since then I've had consistently lower frame rates with multiple games than from before the fix. It looked as if my graphics card wasn't even being used despite the fact that my monitor was getting input through the card's display port. I reinstalled my drivers using GeForce Experience and had it re-optimise my settings for each game. The settings it chose were as expected but when I ran the games they performed very poorly. Again, as if the card wasn't being used at all. I used DDU to completely remove my current drivers but when I tried to reinstall them, I was told I didn't have the necessary hardware.
During the bootloop troubleshooting process I had reset my BIOS by removing the battery from the CMOS but have since let it auto-find the optimal settings and this has not allowed me to fix the current issue.
I've remounted the card multiple times and there are no power warning lights as you might expect it were not plugged in or my power supply was faulty.
At the moment, it looks to me as if the card is broken or can't connect but it had been working just a couple of hours before and is only 5 months old showing no previous signs of such a problem. The socket in the motherboard looks fine too.
Is there any help anyone can give based on these symptoms?
Thanks in advance.
tl;dr: Graphics card seems to be ignored despite the fact that the monitor clearly gets signal through the port. Driver installation tells me I don't have a valid graphics card (similar message to if I had a very outdated card from what my research tells me).
Full:
I'm using a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming 8G graphics card and a GIGABYTE GA-X150M-PRO ECC motherboard.
I recently rebuilt my PC after fixing a bootlooping problem. Since then I've had consistently lower frame rates with multiple games than from before the fix. It looked as if my graphics card wasn't even being used despite the fact that my monitor was getting input through the card's display port. I reinstalled my drivers using GeForce Experience and had it re-optimise my settings for each game. The settings it chose were as expected but when I ran the games they performed very poorly. Again, as if the card wasn't being used at all. I used DDU to completely remove my current drivers but when I tried to reinstall them, I was told I didn't have the necessary hardware.
During the bootloop troubleshooting process I had reset my BIOS by removing the battery from the CMOS but have since let it auto-find the optimal settings and this has not allowed me to fix the current issue.
I've remounted the card multiple times and there are no power warning lights as you might expect it were not plugged in or my power supply was faulty.
At the moment, it looks to me as if the card is broken or can't connect but it had been working just a couple of hours before and is only 5 months old showing no previous signs of such a problem. The socket in the motherboard looks fine too.
Is there any help anyone can give based on these symptoms?
Thanks in advance.
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