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    graphics card not detected

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by kobby2k6, Jul 20, 2011.

  1. kobby2k6

    kobby2k6 Notebook Consultant

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    i have had the y470 for a week now...i play games like crysis 2 but not for a long time...the laptop has never overheated or anything before...it stays pretty cool during gaming...yesterday i was just surfing the web and suddenly had a blue screen and my laptop rebooted...when it rebooted my msi and nvidia control panel was reporting that no gpu was detected...i turned on the switch but it doesn't turn on anymore...i haven't dropped it at all...it has been perfect till yesterday...i dont want to return the laptop...btw i haven't updated any of my drivers at all...do I need to update them??...can anyone help because i dont want to wait a month to get the laptop back...im addicted to it
     
    kobby2k6, Jul 20, 2011
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    i would say reinstall the driver for it to see what happens. I just got my Y470 on Tuesday and all my drivers were already up to date.
     
    rcorrea, Jul 21, 2011
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    kobby2k6 Notebook Consultant

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    alrite...how do update the drivers and can you give a direct link to drivers that can fix my gpu issues
     
    kobby2k6, Jul 21, 2011
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    kobby2k6 Notebook Consultant

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    so i have done same research (google) and realized i am getting blue screen of death...i have restored to factory setting with onekey recovery and the error keeps happening...my computer randomly shows the blue screen of death and reboots and system minitor says "no gpu to be found"...i have done a whole bunch of restores and it happens after a few minutes or hours...i can surfing and simply be idling and it still happens...one thing i have noticed is it might be a software (thats what im praying it is because i don't want to ship it back to lenovo and wait a long time)...some system restore make the gpu work but the problem happens again after a few minutes...can anybody help??

    p.s. i just rebooted my computer and the gpu shows up now...but after a few minutes, the blue screen happened again...im on default setting btw
     
    kobby2k6, Jul 21, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Have you reimaged it completely from the recovery partition? Sounds like bad hardware, maybe your GPU has gone bad. BSOD after a fresh driver install/reimage indicates hardware issue.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jul 22, 2011
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  6. kobby2k6

    kobby2k6 Notebook Consultant

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    i don't think it is a hardware issue and i found out that the issue affects a lot of nvidia cards...i read the "BSOD" and it read "nvlddmkm.sys".... i googled it and there are a whole bunch of solutions online...i haven't tried them yet...the issue is the computer thinks im using outdated drivers or something...the issue is this "nvlddmkm.sys blue screen error"...my only question is, do you guys update ur nvidia card through nvidia or the lenovo site??..
     
    kobby2k6, Jul 23, 2011
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