Hi,
Until yesterday everything was working fine, PC is several years old. This morning I disconnected the monitor (sent it for repair as it has some dirty panel issue) and might have accidentally pulled the DP cable in a bad way which damaged the cable, however the GPU doesn't seem to have any visible physical damage to it.
Regardless if I use the DP or HDMI port on my GPU, my temporary replacement monitor goes black all the time (it spends more time black than on, but does turn on every few seconds).
I tried using Nvidia Geforce Experience to make a clean install of new drivers and it succeeded (after the express installation failed).
The monitor is currently working fine with HDMI on the onboard HDMI output (as well as with 2 other computers with both DP and HDMI), so the monitor itself is most likely fine.
Is my GPU dead? Is there anything else I can do other than replacing it?
It is a GTX 970, which is currently working well enough for my needs, and with current prices I'd rather postpone any upgrades if I can make this card work again. It would be very strange if it was actually damaged, as again there is no visible damage to the GPU, and the HDMI port (which was not in use recently) has the same issue. The PC is otherwise also old but working well, with an i5-4690k overclocked to 4.2GHz with a decent air cooler.
The fans seem to be spinning fine. The issue starts as soon as the PC boots (although I didn't test in BIOS, only in windows), so I doubt it's some temperature issue.
I'm not sure what could happen to cause such a problem so suddenly, with the only change since yesterday being disconnecting the monitor to take it for repair under warranty (due to dirty panel, it was otherwise working fine).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Gal
Until yesterday everything was working fine, PC is several years old. This morning I disconnected the monitor (sent it for repair as it has some dirty panel issue) and might have accidentally pulled the DP cable in a bad way which damaged the cable, however the GPU doesn't seem to have any visible physical damage to it.
Regardless if I use the DP or HDMI port on my GPU, my temporary replacement monitor goes black all the time (it spends more time black than on, but does turn on every few seconds).
I tried using Nvidia Geforce Experience to make a clean install of new drivers and it succeeded (after the express installation failed).
The monitor is currently working fine with HDMI on the onboard HDMI output (as well as with 2 other computers with both DP and HDMI), so the monitor itself is most likely fine.
Is my GPU dead? Is there anything else I can do other than replacing it?
It is a GTX 970, which is currently working well enough for my needs, and with current prices I'd rather postpone any upgrades if I can make this card work again. It would be very strange if it was actually damaged, as again there is no visible damage to the GPU, and the HDMI port (which was not in use recently) has the same issue. The PC is otherwise also old but working well, with an i5-4690k overclocked to 4.2GHz with a decent air cooler.
The fans seem to be spinning fine. The issue starts as soon as the PC boots (although I didn't test in BIOS, only in windows), so I doubt it's some temperature issue.
I'm not sure what could happen to cause such a problem so suddenly, with the only change since yesterday being disconnecting the monitor to take it for repair under warranty (due to dirty panel, it was otherwise working fine).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Gal