I think this card is dead, but haven't tried wiping the whole laptop yet.
It's a Dell G7 17 7700 Windows 11, and supposedly this is an 8gb RTX 2070.
I bought it a couple months ago and only use it occasionally for editing video. It had a snafu to begin with regarding the GPU from a fresh install, but I was able to download the drivers for it and then it worked. I did occasionally have BSODs but figured I'd ignore it, since they never occurred when I was actually doing anything, seemed more like an issue with low power standby/sleep, in retrospect that was a bad idea. I believe I got the driver's directly from NVIDIA originally, but I don't recall specifically. A few days ago I realized I'd had a huge performance loss, checked the device manager, saw it was disabled for Code 43 so I was running integrated graphics. I wasn't sure if there had been an update to other drivers or windows, so opted to check GPU driver versions and reinstall. NVIDIA driver install tool claimed there wasn't a card installed, or wrong one, I figured strange, but often craptops run their own specific drivers due to high levels of integration, so went to the Dell support site and downloaded it there and installed successfully. Performance still seemed off, but the card claimed to be functioning, was able to render 1080P video at about a 1:1 rate. The NVIDIA control panel also disappeared at some point, it's not something I mess with nor present on my other laptops, so I didn't notice it was gone. I tried downloading it directly from the M$ Store and it would not open, ruh-roh. Then realized the card was regularly being disabled, but I could stop and restart it and it seemed to work for the time being. Checked other device drivers, everything is up to date, but I'm not sure if something changed from the Win11 side or not.
I'm assuming the card is a brick and I should see if I have warranty or not. Any other ideas? Will clean wipe the laptop once I'm done the current video and try that if nothing else.
Sorry for the typed diarrhea.
Oh, and in case anything I typed seems stupid, the last time I really cared about how computers worked, or why, was when a Pentium screaming at 233MHz, 32MB of RAM, with a S3 Savage 3D and a Soundblaster was pretty much tits. I'm a little out of the loop.
It's a Dell G7 17 7700 Windows 11, and supposedly this is an 8gb RTX 2070.
I bought it a couple months ago and only use it occasionally for editing video. It had a snafu to begin with regarding the GPU from a fresh install, but I was able to download the drivers for it and then it worked. I did occasionally have BSODs but figured I'd ignore it, since they never occurred when I was actually doing anything, seemed more like an issue with low power standby/sleep, in retrospect that was a bad idea. I believe I got the driver's directly from NVIDIA originally, but I don't recall specifically. A few days ago I realized I'd had a huge performance loss, checked the device manager, saw it was disabled for Code 43 so I was running integrated graphics. I wasn't sure if there had been an update to other drivers or windows, so opted to check GPU driver versions and reinstall. NVIDIA driver install tool claimed there wasn't a card installed, or wrong one, I figured strange, but often craptops run their own specific drivers due to high levels of integration, so went to the Dell support site and downloaded it there and installed successfully. Performance still seemed off, but the card claimed to be functioning, was able to render 1080P video at about a 1:1 rate. The NVIDIA control panel also disappeared at some point, it's not something I mess with nor present on my other laptops, so I didn't notice it was gone. I tried downloading it directly from the M$ Store and it would not open, ruh-roh. Then realized the card was regularly being disabled, but I could stop and restart it and it seemed to work for the time being. Checked other device drivers, everything is up to date, but I'm not sure if something changed from the Win11 side or not.
I'm assuming the card is a brick and I should see if I have warranty or not. Any other ideas? Will clean wipe the laptop once I'm done the current video and try that if nothing else.
Sorry for the typed diarrhea.
Oh, and in case anything I typed seems stupid, the last time I really cared about how computers worked, or why, was when a Pentium screaming at 233MHz, 32MB of RAM, with a S3 Savage 3D and a Soundblaster was pretty much tits. I'm a little out of the loop.