I'm on windows 7.
My gpu is nvidia 770.
First thing that happened, was I was playing a game, and the game closed itself and gave an error. A bubble popped up and said something like "display adapter stopped and successfully started again".
I tried playing the game again, and it froze my whole pc, but the sound kept going.
A few days later I played a different game, it closed and gave an error that said "device removed, please restart game". Now I download the latest driver for my card, try the game again, and this time it freezes my whole pc, but the sound kept going.
When I turn the computer back on, I start a virus scan, but the computer freezes while scanning, so I restart it again, and it says "need to check integrity of the disk", it took a while doing that, and I think it found no problems. But when the pc gets to the desktop, the whole screen freezes, but I can move my mouse around. It stayed like that for 10 or 20 minutes, so I restart it again.
When it comes back on, it is in low resolution and theres green dots all over the screen. I roll back the driver, then restart, and now the gpu doesn't give any signal at all.
After this I try a different gpu that I know works, I tried it in 2 different slots, but it gave the same problem of no signal.
So I dust the computer, then the other gpu works.
I try the original gpu again, and it gives a signal long enough so I can see the windows logo, but after that, it stops the signal, when I restart it gives me the option for safe mode, so I do that, and it works.
I tried uninstalling and installing a few different versions of drivers, and nothing fixed it.
So is my gpu broken? Is there anything I can do to fix it? I read on here that lots of crashes could corrupt a gpu's bios, so if that's what happened, could flashing its bios fix it?
And what could have caused this? I did have lots of dust on it, i really only cleaned it once. But I didn't think it was overheating, since I used some program to turn the fans up before, and they got pretty loud, but I never heard the fans get that loud. I'd think the fans would turn up before it overheated.
My gpu is nvidia 770.
First thing that happened, was I was playing a game, and the game closed itself and gave an error. A bubble popped up and said something like "display adapter stopped and successfully started again".
I tried playing the game again, and it froze my whole pc, but the sound kept going.
A few days later I played a different game, it closed and gave an error that said "device removed, please restart game". Now I download the latest driver for my card, try the game again, and this time it freezes my whole pc, but the sound kept going.
When I turn the computer back on, I start a virus scan, but the computer freezes while scanning, so I restart it again, and it says "need to check integrity of the disk", it took a while doing that, and I think it found no problems. But when the pc gets to the desktop, the whole screen freezes, but I can move my mouse around. It stayed like that for 10 or 20 minutes, so I restart it again.
When it comes back on, it is in low resolution and theres green dots all over the screen. I roll back the driver, then restart, and now the gpu doesn't give any signal at all.
After this I try a different gpu that I know works, I tried it in 2 different slots, but it gave the same problem of no signal.
So I dust the computer, then the other gpu works.
I try the original gpu again, and it gives a signal long enough so I can see the windows logo, but after that, it stops the signal, when I restart it gives me the option for safe mode, so I do that, and it works.
I tried uninstalling and installing a few different versions of drivers, and nothing fixed it.
So is my gpu broken? Is there anything I can do to fix it? I read on here that lots of crashes could corrupt a gpu's bios, so if that's what happened, could flashing its bios fix it?
And what could have caused this? I did have lots of dust on it, i really only cleaned it once. But I didn't think it was overheating, since I used some program to turn the fans up before, and they got pretty loud, but I never heard the fans get that loud. I'd think the fans would turn up before it overheated.
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