Hey folks.
I've been using a 670 for about 6 years (been quite a while) and earlier today my computer just blacked out and lost the ability to boot.
I replaced my HDD and did a clean install on a brand new SSD not long ago, so I suspected it had to be something else.
Upon trying to boot into safe mode, I decided that if I succeeded, I would disable some basic things in the device manager to narrow down what the problem is.
After disabling the display card (670) through the device manager, I could boot just fine into normal Windows 7, the computer running off of the integrated mobo graphics. I tried swapping the 670 with an old r9 270x that my friend left behind (I'm pretty sure the r9 270x is broken) and the same thing happened with the r9 270x. I uninstalled the nVidia drivers and installed the AMD Radeon drivers and the computer once again stopped booting right after the windows logo (then it sent me to the windows was unable to boot... repair screen).
Afterwards, I went into safe mode, disabled the AMD drivers/display with device manager, restarted, and was able to boot normally into Windows without safe mode - and on integrated mobo graphics.
So my question is, is this a sign of the 670 and the r9 270x being dead? Or is there another problem somewhere else that I cannot find?
I already bought a replacement 1050 which is on the way so I'll be able to answer my own question for sure in the next 3 days, but I wanted some opinions on the matter from the people over at Tom's Hardware.
Thanks for reading. And I hope GPU prices fall sometime soon.. lol. I was wondering this would be a good chance to get a snazzy new card but yeah.
I've been using a 670 for about 6 years (been quite a while) and earlier today my computer just blacked out and lost the ability to boot.
I replaced my HDD and did a clean install on a brand new SSD not long ago, so I suspected it had to be something else.
Upon trying to boot into safe mode, I decided that if I succeeded, I would disable some basic things in the device manager to narrow down what the problem is.
After disabling the display card (670) through the device manager, I could boot just fine into normal Windows 7, the computer running off of the integrated mobo graphics. I tried swapping the 670 with an old r9 270x that my friend left behind (I'm pretty sure the r9 270x is broken) and the same thing happened with the r9 270x. I uninstalled the nVidia drivers and installed the AMD Radeon drivers and the computer once again stopped booting right after the windows logo (then it sent me to the windows was unable to boot... repair screen).
Afterwards, I went into safe mode, disabled the AMD drivers/display with device manager, restarted, and was able to boot normally into Windows without safe mode - and on integrated mobo graphics.
So my question is, is this a sign of the 670 and the r9 270x being dead? Or is there another problem somewhere else that I cannot find?
I already bought a replacement 1050 which is on the way so I'll be able to answer my own question for sure in the next 3 days, but I wanted some opinions on the matter from the people over at Tom's Hardware.
Thanks for reading. And I hope GPU prices fall sometime soon.. lol. I was wondering this would be a good chance to get a snazzy new card but yeah.
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