- Aug 13, 2017
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Bought a pc last year. Built it myself, went ok. Worked fine until one day ago when my pc stopped detecting my GPU. At first I thought it was the monitor because I had some problems when I first got it but I tried multiple cables (one HDMI cable and one dvi-d to hdmi) and none of them worked so I figured it had to be something else.
I then figured it might be the video card so I tried plugging it into the on-board HDMI port from the motherboard. This didn't help either at first but after switching around the cable from my GPU to the mobo port a couple times and restarting the pc the monitor displayed my desktop and it worked fine except for the GPU which the pc couldn't detect.
I thought this was weird because I had used the pc perfectly fine 6 hours earlier. I removed all the hardware from the case and replugged everything to see if it worked but still nothing so I put everything back in the case but without the videocard. Even without the card the monitor had trouble detecting my pc and sometimes it would just give me a standby error (I'm Norwegian and the monitor is in polish so I'm not 100% sure what it reads).
Also tried switching PCI lanes but none of them made my pc recognize the GPU
I've tried updating the drivers but I can't because the software can't detect the card (can't find any manual install drivers either)
Read somewhere that it might be a BIOS problem but I can't update the BIOS because every time I try to boot from flash, my monitor doesn't detect my pc and the pc just shuts off
Everything else seems to work fine. Double checked all the cables though I doubt that was what the problem initially as the pc wasn't moved during the 6 hours I wasn't using it
I've now come to the conclusion that my video card might not be bricked and that it's a software error of some kind but I don't know the origin of it. I haven't found any threads that are remotely similar to my case and so I have no idea what to do. Troubleshooting can ofc still be done because my pc still sometimes connects to the monitor. Any help would be appreciated.
I think I have listed what I tried so far but I'll add stuff if I remember it
On an unrelated note, I couldn't install a visual c redistributable package. Don't remember the error but it could be related ( I have no idea)
System Specs
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
Mobo: MSI z170a Krait Gaming
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600k
Memory: 2×4gb Corsair Vengeance Lpx DDR4
GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 nitro+ 8gb OC
Power supply: Corsair CX 550m
Monitor: LG Flatron W2452V
I then figured it might be the video card so I tried plugging it into the on-board HDMI port from the motherboard. This didn't help either at first but after switching around the cable from my GPU to the mobo port a couple times and restarting the pc the monitor displayed my desktop and it worked fine except for the GPU which the pc couldn't detect.
I thought this was weird because I had used the pc perfectly fine 6 hours earlier. I removed all the hardware from the case and replugged everything to see if it worked but still nothing so I put everything back in the case but without the videocard. Even without the card the monitor had trouble detecting my pc and sometimes it would just give me a standby error (I'm Norwegian and the monitor is in polish so I'm not 100% sure what it reads).
Also tried switching PCI lanes but none of them made my pc recognize the GPU
I've tried updating the drivers but I can't because the software can't detect the card (can't find any manual install drivers either)
Read somewhere that it might be a BIOS problem but I can't update the BIOS because every time I try to boot from flash, my monitor doesn't detect my pc and the pc just shuts off
Everything else seems to work fine. Double checked all the cables though I doubt that was what the problem initially as the pc wasn't moved during the 6 hours I wasn't using it
I've now come to the conclusion that my video card might not be bricked and that it's a software error of some kind but I don't know the origin of it. I haven't found any threads that are remotely similar to my case and so I have no idea what to do. Troubleshooting can ofc still be done because my pc still sometimes connects to the monitor. Any help would be appreciated.
I think I have listed what I tried so far but I'll add stuff if I remember it
On an unrelated note, I couldn't install a visual c redistributable package. Don't remember the error but it could be related ( I have no idea)
System Specs
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 Bit
Mobo: MSI z170a Krait Gaming
CPU: Intel Core i5 6600k
Memory: 2×4gb Corsair Vengeance Lpx DDR4
GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 nitro+ 8gb OC
Power supply: Corsair CX 550m
Monitor: LG Flatron W2452V
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