HELP! GPU NOT DETECTED! (was working last night just fine!)

Okay, so I'm kinda pissed for two reasons...

One, it's christmas, so I'm already trying to not spend much cash and two, I think my GPU just died for no reason. I had no artifacting and no driver crashes and the card is simply not detected...

Is there ANY WAY to find out if it's dead or if the iGPU is just screwing around with me here?

It says the dedicated GPU1 is not detected. I reseated the GPU, but it's done this in the past and I would merely restart and it starts up properly... Now when I do it, nothing happens and the iGPU starts up with the machine.


Can anyone help me please?

 

well you already tried reseating it so its probably not a bad connection. Is it not even showing up in the bios? If not, Your card is more than likely dead for some reason. You could try a power drain, but I doubt that would help.

 

Have you toggled the I/D GFX button by mistake? I know its obvious maybe try toggling it a few times? and have you got the normal or unlocked bios?

Sounds very strange though.

Try toggling the graphics, if the dedicated failed on dedicated only mode it should beep anyways. I'm not sure if the dedicated is completely hidden from the bios when you use that toggle.

 

It's not detected in the BIOS...and my attempt at reviving the card via baking in the oven didn't work either...

Looks like it's dead... which is so strange because it was working 100% last night and just now decided to not work... That's NEVER happened to me before. There was ALWAYS something that happened before then...

 

sorry to hear that bud. Hope you can get a decent card rather cheaply. I have a 460m sitting around I might be willing to part with Its just sitting in a box somewhere. PM me if you're interested.

 

Thanks, Tony. I found someone in the marketplace who's selling an M8900, which is a 6970M and can be flashed to such. It's what I did to the other card I had and it worked BETTER than the one I kept... >_> Typical really.

 

I had the exact same problem with my old 560M not being detected in my M17xR3. I reseated it and it fixed the problem. I know you've said you've reseated it, and it didn't help, but if I was you I'd clean off the contacts on the MXM card & also use some compressed air to blow out the mxm slot in your laptop. I think it's a connection problem, which is either fixable (just dirty or not quite seated right), or non-fixable (some connection permanently broken - the card or the slot).

(I also had the same problem the very first time I installed my 670MX, I had to reseat it in order for it to be recognised).

 

That could be a good idea, it's a lot better than replacing it without trying.

 

That's so weird! It worked!

Well... that was a scare I REALLY didn't need... @_@ Least this GPU is still good for a while longer... I really do want an upgrade soon though... >w>

 

That cannot be a common issue, just to reseat an MXM GPU. I've never had that happen to me before. It's not like the MXM GPU is a easily and commonly removed part like a HDD or RAM is (even to your average Alienware user).

 

It happened to me ALL the time. What will often work, is to power down, do a power drain, removed the MXM card, and turn on the computer with the card removed (just to reach the bios is enough). When you do that, turn it back off, and reseat the MXM card, and voila...it will be working again. Happened with me on 6970m, 6990m, GTX 580M, and the 7970M, on both the M17x R3 and the R4, and I've managed to fix all of them in this fashion.