Nvidia card not found?

Was playing some TF2, noticed the gameplay was very laggy, figuring something was up, I exited out and right clicked to select the GPU settings, and there wasn't a icon there. So I went to the settings in the CP, and when I clicked on the Nvidia settings, it said that no Nvidia devices detected, or something along those lines. Downloading the driver now, hopefully it's that... Oh, and, when I shut it off it said that it wasn't plugged in, when it was.

 

The driver will most likely say no hardware detects. This happens once in a very long while to me. Just turn off the computer and leave it off to 30min to an hour and turn it back on. Everything should be fine then

 

Thanks, that is what happened. Will shut off now and post back results.

 

Nope, still the same error. And, I tried restoring to an earlier point in time, and I tried uninstalling then reinstalling the drivers. Is this the error message you got? I feel like we may have different issues

 

Well that is exactly what happened to me and it was way later discovered it was a faulty motherboard.

Had to send it back to Dell being brand new.

I suggest you call their tech department and have a rep diagnose the issue, mention you already uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them, also make sure you installed the factory drivers and not the Nvidia drivers off of their site, that will save you an hour or two with the tech rep.

 

I resolved the issue with a person from AW Tech Support. The driver was faulty and corrupted, so he had to completely wipe the driver off the system, then reinstalled a beta 273.33 driver... Is that unreleased? If it is, I feel special for having an unreleased version of something .
But yeah, it works now, took an hour and a half, but the guy was really nice. The Indians at TS aren't that bad!

 

Well, some Indian, their English is very very good, some of them I hardly believe if they're actually Indian! While some is terrible. Though my experience with the tech support are usually Filipinos. And they're just like Indian, I remember my first ever experience with the tech support and man her English is Excellent, very easy and spoke very clear, while the 2nd is the worst, 3rd is okay.

 

Filipino? How can you tell?

 

Well, I've got 3 Filipino friends, and I can judge by their accent, but I'm not sure how to explain to you though

 

Oh yeah sorry we had different issues. Sorry for wasting your time My issue was all signs of any NVIDIA on my system were gone. Like the NVIDIA control panel was completely gone, then when I left it off for an hour and came back on it was magically there lol

 

Yeah, wasn't the most descriptive description on my part. But I've had that sort of thing happen to me too, but with other applications... Maybe a bug in Windows and not the program?

 

Sorry for being off topic, back to topic, I wonder if it is the possibility of overheated motherboard?

 

I don't think that would result in a software failure, just a hardware failure... Because the software files are not dependent on the hardware's well being.

 

Happened to me twice.

I checked the BIOS and my Nvidia GPU was not listed.

Reflashed the BIOS and voila

 

Well that seems like an easier fix than the way I did it.

 

Well, maybe it could, when a MOBO is overheated, it will lose the detection of the hardware, thus the software try to find the source and since the source is gone, that when the BSOD come in, to prevent more problem that might happen for the hardware.

 

Hmm, I don't know. That could be the case though.