Did my GPU suddendly become a magician and poofed away!?!?!?!!

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How do I fix this?

Before I would have no problem opening Nvidia GeForce Experience but now it shows that when I try opening it.

I searched as to why all my games were suddeny lagging, and a lot of responses to people who said all the games suddenly started lagging were to check their temperature, so I downloaded CAM to check it, it showed me that it was fine, but it also showed me again that my GPU Is literally not being detected, like it's not even there, as if it disappeared, like it poofed away.

Does anyone know the cause of this and better how to fix it? Any game I try playing that is 3D will lag extremely bad, well, at least 3 games I've treid and they all run terrible even though I have a GTX 1080 when they should be running all on ULTRA and have graphics automatically set on ULTRA, now, it's automatically set on low or medium...

I have tried:

Shadow of Mordor

Dying Light

Gloria Victis

They all ran extremely bad at extremely low fps, single digit fps for games that should be running extremely well... Specially an MMORPG like Gloria Victis that should be running stellarly even with ultra graphics, it runs extremely bad... Only do these games run at 60 FPS when the dark loading screens pop up....

What am I supposed to do about this?

 
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If DDU doesn't allow you to reinstall the NVidia drivers and work properly, then your issue may be:

a) Hardware (bad GTX1080)

b) software (no idea)

At that point, I'd try to get a spare drive (HDD or SSD) then shut down, remove the OTHER drives for now, and do a clean install of Windows 10 (can use Microsoft media creation tool to create a DVD_DL or USB... don't activate).

Then install NVidia drivers if possible and software to test it works (Unigine Valley or whatever).
 
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UPDATE:
You can also try going back to a RESTORE POINT just prior to the issue happening. If it's a software issue then everything may start working.

1. type "restore" into search
2. click on "create a restore point"
3. create a restore point now.

4. look for a previous restore point, and if they exist choose the one closest one PRIOR to the problem (write down any programs that affects in case you want to reinstall them)
5. test
6. If this does not work, then restore the RESTORE POINT you just made
 
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So I'm going to attempt restoring first as I hadn't done that, nor have I looked inside my PC. It's a pre-built and I've never twinkered with my PCs or done any building, but it's a solid 2k PC and this wasn't happening before, happened I believe right after I had some problems with my internet and everything was fixed but that's unrelated...

After that I guess I'll try reinstalling the drivers? Should I follow this guide then? http://www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-remove-your-nvidia-gpu-drivers-new-2016

I'll update soon, please keep in touch, I literally won't be able to play any 3D games unless I keep receiving help on this and eventually, hopefully fix it...
 
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One: Check the card is still IN the computer - Seen people lose RAM, HDD 'stop working' etc. in work place and because we had a thief remove them is why they weren't "working"
Two: Install the NVidia and Intel drivers as mentioned above. Easiest tool is the iOBit Driver Booster to download them all and install them all for you. Otherwise just go to the maker's websites and individually download the proper drivers under the 'Support" page. Normally you should start (as you said this was a prebuilt) with the included 'Update' application from the maker (ASUS, ROG etc.) in the folder named after that maker (ASUS, ROG, etc). OR just go to the maker's website (again same way they are all set up) and under support looking for your specific model computer to walk you through
 
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DDU does a clean removal of video drivers so I'm not sure there's any point to the above link.

If you don't try my spare HDD option (to clean install Windows 10), you can try the "in place upgrade" option which should replace a lot of Windows and potentially fix the issue.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16397-repair-install-windows-10-place-upgrade.html

At it simplest you:

1. obtain or create W10 Install Media (i.e. MS Media Creation Tool to create USB or DVD-DL version)
2. run "setup.exe" on that media from within W10
3. *choose to keep your applications and data when prompted
4. finish and test

I'd also create a backup image PRIOR to this using a tool like Acronis True Image. I have it make automated, weekly backups (incremental with auto deletion of older backups.

A backup Image strategy would also solve the problem you had as you could restore an Image prior to any issue you get that is software related.
 
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1. No way the graphics card has been "stolen"
if anything moved out of place because of recently rough movement with it. It is essentially impossible for it to have been stolen.

2. I went to the NVIDIA drivers before I posted this entire thread and attempted to manually download the driver I needed but it only opened up the same Nvidia installer bs saying there's no GPU shit but I hadn't tried to remove them before installing it and GeForce might've automatically opened so that's why It got in the way maybe..?

3. Also uhhhh, I don't know which method do follow here, should I go ahead and do the iOBit Driver Booster thing, or should I got to ASUS and download the drivers for my model?

4 http://www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-remove-your-nvidia-gpu-drivers-new-2016 I forgot where I got this link from but uh, here the guy says this: Why was this guide created?

3rd Party software uninstallers (DDU, CCleaner, Nvidia Uninstall Utility) have been known to cause software corruption by removing essential chipset, audio and system library files. This may cause system instability, OS corruption or personal data loss.

So I don't know if I should go ahead and do the above that I pointed out in 3. or follow this guide, or

this "HDD Option" that I don't what the heck is, I just looked up HDD and uh.. Yeah, confused. I'm not sure if I wanna clean install Windows 10 like you say this option does... I'm not sure what the aftermath is like and such, never done any of this before.

Nor do I know if I should instead do the "in place upgrade" option or just go ahead an follow the steps photon offered..


Is there any details I can offer that can help to narrow down the solution to this? I don't wanna end up doing something that will mess up something that I won't know how to fix or be able to fix, because of my inexperience with this sort of thing.

So my question is, out of all these "options/"solutions"/methods", which should I actually most likely go for, since I don't know which one necessarily has a higher chance of working/fucking up something I won't know how to fix or just doing something in general that I won't know how to follow through.

Sorry if I'm being annoying by dragging this, I just want to be the most careful and plan this through correctly since I don't really know what I'm doing and don't wanna mess up something or fail to go through with a "solution" that will just turn into the opposite of a solution because I'm unable to follow through or something.
 
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So basically, a fault in my drivers for god knows what reason, occurred, and that basically caused my GPU to go "stealth mode", "Undetected"

Therefore I have to fix my drivers, I get that.

Now, which method do I even use out of all the ones posted here...?
 
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A few hours ago I realized thanks to https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/6jslyr/my_gpu_is_undetected_and_all_my_games_suddenly/ my problem is different to all of this here so I'll be making a new thread, on Graphics Cards as well because I don't know where to really put this new thread

 
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Honestly at this point, I would just suggest taking it to a Mom and Pop store. Your very confused by the steps to resolve this, there is no 'A B C' absolute one solution as we really know nothing else about this system, history, etc. and this all seems to be overly taxing at this point.

Warning: if you take it to BestBuy or such Major places, they will normally WIPE the entire systems and put it back to 'Factory Fresh" (as in when you first unboxed the PC) because the manufacturer guaranteed it worked when you opened the box, and thus Factory Reset will 'fix it' to that point, no matter what else you lose in the process.
 
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Lol no it's not confusing at all.

And I won't be taking it anywhere. I'm just trying to fix it before the person who's gonna help me gets here in a few hours.

I'm now going to make the new post I said I was going to make to be more specific.

I already made one in reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/6juu07/dvi_cable_not_detected_how_do_i_fix_this/
 
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Read my 2 Reddit posts in detail.

The reason was that a cable was disconnected. The person did fix it. I knew it was that a cable had fallen, I fucking knew it, I had told him that. I think he said he thinks is a cable that powered the graphics card or something.


 
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Wo so that means if YOU DID LOOK inside the computer as was suggested, you would have seen the power cable came loose (which it shouldn't, it doesn't 'pop out' so someone fucked up) and said right off that was the issue than going back and forth and multiple reddit posts too.. Hrmmmmm?
 
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