It's certainly a real strange one, yeah if there was no display at all through the gpu then of course dead card, but it's so strange its sending a signal through the hdmi.
I must admit I am stumped, my last recommendation (if possible) would be to try the card in another pc and also try a different card in your pc.
That will pretty much give a 100% diagnosis of the issue.
Sorry I can't help any further.
Thanks, I'll be able to try this out tomorrow. It really is perplexing.
https://i.imgur.com/AiKWi.png
This is what shows up everytime i go to the device manager, seeing as the card is 1GB, its a bit painful to see :)
Going to try putting win7 32 on it first though, shouldnt be an issue, but might aswell check.
I strongly doubt 32bit will make any difference at all.
I think a very high percentage of windows 7 users are on 64bit.
My opinions are either something went wrong with your windows install, your gpu is faulty or your mobo is faulty.
Trial and error working out which I guess.
Goodluck anyway.
Paul.
Figured it out; the motherboard was rejecting the new bios, and somehow picking up the old deleted one, I have no idea how or why it was doing this, but it was from 2009, eventually managed to get on the phone with Asus, and got it sorted to the one i was trying to install.
Overall, my brain hurts, thanks for all your advice guys.
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