Recently, my screen's started going blank, as in 'no signal detected' sort of message with the PC itself still running and the sound/music still playing and yet when I switch to using my onboard graphics unit the issue does not seem to show itself. It happens while I've been playing games, browsing, and such. When I switch off the PC when it the screen goes blank, and start it back on the same 'no signal detected' state appears on the screen, but if I switch to the onboard unit, the display appears. If I leave it alone for a while or reseat it or reboot the PC with the monitor's cable attached to the GPU's connector it works again, but then after a while the screen goes blank again.
At first I suspected an issue with overheating of the graphics card but that doesn't seem to be the case since it happens even when I don't seem to be doing anything particularly throttling on the card and it isn't overclocked but as of yet but I can't be sure, or an issue with the drivers, although I haven't updated or changed anything.
I can tell it might not be an issue with the PC or the monitor since they fare well with the onboard graphics unit in use. The card itself is an old one, the Nvidia 7300 LE. So it might just be that it's dying? Any suggestions or recommendations as to what the issue might be would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Edit - Right now I'm using the onboard graphics unit and the computer can't seem to detect the Nvidia card. I've uninstalled the driver for it and tried reinstalling the latest available driver for *that* card but it says the installation process cannot detect any Nvidia hardware on the machine. I'm running a Windows7 - 32 bit.
Edit - I just rebooted my computer with the monitor connected to the onboard display unit's port and no display showed, but when I removed my graphic card entirely and rebooted the onboard unit display showed up.
At first I suspected an issue with overheating of the graphics card but that doesn't seem to be the case since it happens even when I don't seem to be doing anything particularly throttling on the card and it isn't overclocked but as of yet but I can't be sure, or an issue with the drivers, although I haven't updated or changed anything.
I can tell it might not be an issue with the PC or the monitor since they fare well with the onboard graphics unit in use. The card itself is an old one, the Nvidia 7300 LE. So it might just be that it's dying? Any suggestions or recommendations as to what the issue might be would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Edit - Right now I'm using the onboard graphics unit and the computer can't seem to detect the Nvidia card. I've uninstalled the driver for it and tried reinstalling the latest available driver for *that* card but it says the installation process cannot detect any Nvidia hardware on the machine. I'm running a Windows7 - 32 bit.
Edit - I just rebooted my computer with the monitor connected to the onboard display unit's port and no display showed, but when I removed my graphic card entirely and rebooted the onboard unit display showed up.