So this is a weird one, recently I bumped my computer with my knee under the desk, the picture froze (audio still going fine), and I turned off the computer by holding the power button and turned it back on.
After doing that, I got no output, had a little freak-out then got to troubleshooting. I plugged an HDMI cable into my motherboard to use integrated graphics, and device manager showed no sign of my GPU, so I had another freak-out.
Then I got troubleshooting again and pressed the CMOS button on the back of my mobo and saw that my gpu got recognised and outputted video, yay. But this was only temporary, it happened again after playing some satisfactory, a pretty GPU intensive game.
So I repeated the process, which involved turning the computer off, unplugging power, pressing the CMOS button, and rebooting. I checked in the bios for things like default video output, anything that sounded like it would mistakenly switch outputs etc.
I then updated my bios in the hopes it was a bios related issue, and pressed the 'Load Optimized Defaults button', and did a couple reboots and saw that the issue didn't happen again, so I think my problem is solved right? wrong.
Played some satisfactory, for a bit to get the GPU warmed up (water-cooled with aio so only reached about 56 degrees C), did a reboot test and it happened again. Turned off the PC and turned it back on again, this time without a CMOS reset, and it booted up fine.
Could be something related to GPU temp? could be something Bios related? Maybe even a freakish satisfactory bug? I don't know.
There are so many different troubleshooting strands I haven't tied up I don't know where to go but here!
A few notes:
I was playing satisfactory when the issue happened.
I have had no GPU issues before this.
I haven't checked the bios when it switches to internal graphics.
I have reseated the graphics card with no change.
After the first successful boot following the problem, satisfactory had seemingly partially uninstalled itself from steam.
Edit: played different game for prolonged period and a reboot led to the problem once again. Leading me to suspect the motherboard doesn't recognize the gpu because of temperature or something?
Specs:
i9 9900k - aio water cooled
RTX 2080ti - aio water cooled (kraken g12)
Corsair vengeance LPX 32gb Ram
Seasonic Prime TX - 850W
Samsung 960 evo NVME 1tb
NZXT H710
Windows 10
After doing that, I got no output, had a little freak-out then got to troubleshooting. I plugged an HDMI cable into my motherboard to use integrated graphics, and device manager showed no sign of my GPU, so I had another freak-out.
Then I got troubleshooting again and pressed the CMOS button on the back of my mobo and saw that my gpu got recognised and outputted video, yay. But this was only temporary, it happened again after playing some satisfactory, a pretty GPU intensive game.
So I repeated the process, which involved turning the computer off, unplugging power, pressing the CMOS button, and rebooting. I checked in the bios for things like default video output, anything that sounded like it would mistakenly switch outputs etc.
I then updated my bios in the hopes it was a bios related issue, and pressed the 'Load Optimized Defaults button', and did a couple reboots and saw that the issue didn't happen again, so I think my problem is solved right? wrong.
Played some satisfactory, for a bit to get the GPU warmed up (water-cooled with aio so only reached about 56 degrees C), did a reboot test and it happened again. Turned off the PC and turned it back on again, this time without a CMOS reset, and it booted up fine.
Could be something related to GPU temp? could be something Bios related? Maybe even a freakish satisfactory bug? I don't know.
There are so many different troubleshooting strands I haven't tied up I don't know where to go but here!
A few notes:
I was playing satisfactory when the issue happened.
I have had no GPU issues before this.
I haven't checked the bios when it switches to internal graphics.
I have reseated the graphics card with no change.
After the first successful boot following the problem, satisfactory had seemingly partially uninstalled itself from steam.
Edit: played different game for prolonged period and a reboot led to the problem once again. Leading me to suspect the motherboard doesn't recognize the gpu because of temperature or something?
Specs:
i9 9900k - aio water cooled
RTX 2080ti - aio water cooled (kraken g12)
Corsair vengeance LPX 32gb Ram
Seasonic Prime TX - 850W
Samsung 960 evo NVME 1tb
NZXT H710
Windows 10
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