Greetings! First my rig:
GIGABYTE GA-AB350-Gaming 3 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Corsair 16 GB RAM
EVGA 750 BQ PSU
EVGA GeForce 970
Windows 10 Pro
(for troubleshooting purposes: EVGA GeForce 650 Ti Boost)
I was playing a game and stepped away for a few to get some food. I come back to find my dual monitor set up both in sleep mode and I wake them to find No Signal on either. I believe the GPU driver crashed as it has happened before during certain games. The GPU driver crashes, monitors go into No Signal, afterwards restarting the PC would fix it. I am 95% sure it was due to overheating on every occasion. This time around, restarting the PC still leaves my monitors with no signal. I checked connections, also tried using my old 650 I have lying around. That one works fine.
I tried the other PCi slots on my board just in case, no dice. Also, when I boot the PC the fans on the GPU try and spin a bit, and then stop. So, after installing the 650 and keeping the 970 in as well, I went into Device Manager and the 970 isn't showing up. It only showed up when activating hidden devices. Windows thinks it's not installed. So I tried uninstalling the device, rebooting and now it's completely missing, and there's no "Unknown Devices" drop down on my list anywhere, so I can't assume it's just not recognizing the 970. Truth be told, in the span of time I've owned the 970 I believe the driver crash then no signal thing has happened about 10+ times. Always when playing a GPU intensive game, after no input from me for a bit.
In the end, is my 970 dead? Or can I troubleshoot this?
Thanks in advance.
GIGABYTE GA-AB350-Gaming 3 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Corsair 16 GB RAM
EVGA 750 BQ PSU
EVGA GeForce 970
Windows 10 Pro
(for troubleshooting purposes: EVGA GeForce 650 Ti Boost)
I was playing a game and stepped away for a few to get some food. I come back to find my dual monitor set up both in sleep mode and I wake them to find No Signal on either. I believe the GPU driver crashed as it has happened before during certain games. The GPU driver crashes, monitors go into No Signal, afterwards restarting the PC would fix it. I am 95% sure it was due to overheating on every occasion. This time around, restarting the PC still leaves my monitors with no signal. I checked connections, also tried using my old 650 I have lying around. That one works fine.
I tried the other PCi slots on my board just in case, no dice. Also, when I boot the PC the fans on the GPU try and spin a bit, and then stop. So, after installing the 650 and keeping the 970 in as well, I went into Device Manager and the 970 isn't showing up. It only showed up when activating hidden devices. Windows thinks it's not installed. So I tried uninstalling the device, rebooting and now it's completely missing, and there's no "Unknown Devices" drop down on my list anywhere, so I can't assume it's just not recognizing the 970. Truth be told, in the span of time I've owned the 970 I believe the driver crash then no signal thing has happened about 10+ times. Always when playing a GPU intensive game, after no input from me for a bit.
In the end, is my 970 dead? Or can I troubleshoot this?
Thanks in advance.