Hi everybody, first time posting, thanks in advance for the help
I was having some issues with windows so i formatted my hard drive and re-installed a fresh windows OS. I was installing windows 7 so i had to unplug my 4T hard drive during the install (apparently W7 doesn't like installing on drive0 when there is a drive1), but aside from that, i didn't touch anything inside the box. After the fresh install I spent several hours updating all my drivers, to include my gpu drivers (amd catalyst omega suit + hydravision).
I never unplugged my monitors from the gpu and the main screen is working (second is not recognized), my motherboard does NOT have on-board video, BIOS is fine (didn't touch it), gpu fans are running, and gpu was working fine on previous OS install.
BUT; in my display setting I get "Generic PnP monitor on standard vga graphics adapter", my second monitor is not detected nor is my video card in the device manager...wtf?
Any suggestions??? I'm completely lost on this one. How can the gpu be working but... not working... driver issue is my only guess...
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64x
MoBo: ASUS M5A97 LE 2.0
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCI-e
HDs: 1T WD Blue, 4T Seagate Desktop HDD
RAM: 2X8G DDR3 1600
CPU: AMD FX4300 Quad 3.8GHz AM3+
note: everything else seems to be working just fine...
I was having some issues with windows so i formatted my hard drive and re-installed a fresh windows OS. I was installing windows 7 so i had to unplug my 4T hard drive during the install (apparently W7 doesn't like installing on drive0 when there is a drive1), but aside from that, i didn't touch anything inside the box. After the fresh install I spent several hours updating all my drivers, to include my gpu drivers (amd catalyst omega suit + hydravision).
I never unplugged my monitors from the gpu and the main screen is working (second is not recognized), my motherboard does NOT have on-board video, BIOS is fine (didn't touch it), gpu fans are running, and gpu was working fine on previous OS install.
BUT; in my display setting I get "Generic PnP monitor on standard vga graphics adapter", my second monitor is not detected nor is my video card in the device manager...wtf?
Any suggestions??? I'm completely lost on this one. How can the gpu be working but... not working... driver issue is my only guess...
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64x
MoBo: ASUS M5A97 LE 2.0
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB GDDR5 PCI-e
HDs: 1T WD Blue, 4T Seagate Desktop HDD
RAM: 2X8G DDR3 1600
CPU: AMD FX4300 Quad 3.8GHz AM3+
note: everything else seems to be working just fine...