Computer suddenly not detecting GPU after 5 months

ziggi

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Hi!
I built my computer this April and it's worked phenomenally... until now. Basically, last week, my computer crashed while I was playing a game. (Heroes of the Storm, to be exact.) When I turned it back on, all of the graphics settings when I opened up any game were automatically set to low. It took me a little bit to find out that my graphics card (MSI Radeon R9 280) was missing from my device manager.
I used this thread to fix it, and it worked the first time and all was fine. At least for 4 days. 4 days later, the same problem came up again, and I used the first two solutions described in that thread, but to no avail. I uninstalled the graphics card from device manager as described in the second solution and haven't been able to reinstall it at all. It's just not getting detected, and I can't figure out why.
Does anyone know how to possibly solve this? Thanks a lot!
 

ziggi

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Mar 20, 2015
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First, how do you un-pick an answer as a solution? I accidentally clicked the button there. I don't have a second computer that I can transfer the card to. One thing I forgot to mention in the original post was that the error was "Code 35". I'll try to physically unplug an re-plug in the card this weekend and post if it solves the problem.