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Is my graphic card gone? (Sapphire Radeon HD 5570)
Hello. This is first thread here so I am sorry, if I sound dumb. I can normally fix these sort of problems myself, but this one is just beyond me.
To begin, I own a three year old PC with:
(OS) WIN 7 Home Premium 64bit
(CPU) Intel core i3 540 @ 3.07GHz
(Motherboard) ASRock H55M-LE (CPUSocket)
(GPU) Sapphire Radeon 5570 hd 1gb ddr3
(RAM) Kingston 4,00 gb DDR3 (two sticks)
Two SATA hard drives and an LG lcd monitor
Trouble started after a power outage and my monitor showed a blank screen after booting.
Had this sort of thing happen before, always fixed it with removing a memory stick and both HDs. Only this time that doesn't seem to be the cure.
Monitor shows a blank screen, like it's hibernating. No "no signal" message.
The fan on the card is spinning and I can hear it, although I can't tell the difference if it sounds bad, because the card has always been sort of loud.
Switched the monitor to the on board VGA. Booted to windows.
Sapphire Radeon 5570 hd now not detected exist any more.
Removed Catalyst using driver sweeper.
Reinstalled it again, hoping it might help. It didn't.
BIOS has VGA settings set to PCI-express. Tried enabling Onboard and then rebooting and set to PCI-E again, but not working.
This are the PC specs as of now:
I'm thinking of doing a repair install, but I'm really sceptical as to how that would help the graphic card to work as it doesn't seem to be responding.
I have tried removing both HDs but it doesn't work.
Do I need to buy a new one?
PS: Oh yeah I made two threads by mistake. Sorry.
Last edited by pajsr; 14 Sep 2013 at 13:16.