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Hey guys,
As the title suggest I'm not 100% sure this is a graphics card issue but so far all signs seem to be pointing to it. So here we go... (Graphics card is an EVGA GTX 570HD)
A couple of days ago as I was just using my PC for some browsing, little bit of programming and some light gaming, when my screen went black.Then, a second or so later, the image came back with the pop-up message, "The graphics driver stopped responding has has recovered" (or something of that nature).
This happened maybe about 5 times before I updated the driver to the latest version, this didn't solve the problem as the same thing happened a few more times.
So, I turned the PC off for the night and went to bed, hoping to look into the problem more the next day. However, when I turned it on the next day, after the windows loading icon no signal seemed to be coming from the graphics card to the monitor, it just kept going into power-saving mode. Tried a few times and sometimes there would just be a thin white line somewhere across the screen and that's all, no matter what I did it did not respond and requires a hard shutdown.
I can successfully start up in safe Mode and so I tried a few things:
I've emailed EVGA but probably won't get a response until about Wednesday now, Tuesday at the best.
So, whilst waiting for their response I thought I'd ask you guys for a bit of help.
Any help would be nice... even if it's bad news.
Thanks in advance,
C
[EDIT]
Sorry for the typo in the thread title!
As the title suggest I'm not 100% sure this is a graphics card issue but so far all signs seem to be pointing to it. So here we go... (Graphics card is an EVGA GTX 570HD)
A couple of days ago as I was just using my PC for some browsing, little bit of programming and some light gaming, when my screen went black.Then, a second or so later, the image came back with the pop-up message, "The graphics driver stopped responding has has recovered" (or something of that nature).
This happened maybe about 5 times before I updated the driver to the latest version, this didn't solve the problem as the same thing happened a few more times.
So, I turned the PC off for the night and went to bed, hoping to look into the problem more the next day. However, when I turned it on the next day, after the windows loading icon no signal seemed to be coming from the graphics card to the monitor, it just kept going into power-saving mode. Tried a few times and sometimes there would just be a thin white line somewhere across the screen and that's all, no matter what I did it did not respond and requires a hard shutdown.
I can successfully start up in safe Mode and so I tried a few things:
- Uninstalled Graphics Driver, Restart.
- System restore to a few days before.
- Disable graphics driver and then restart.
I've emailed EVGA but probably won't get a response until about Wednesday now, Tuesday at the best.
So, whilst waiting for their response I thought I'd ask you guys for a bit of help.
Any help would be nice... even if it's bad news.
Thanks in advance,
C
[EDIT]
Sorry for the typo in the thread title!