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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: C5Allroad on Fri, 21 November 2014, 21:49:03

Title: Dead GPU questions....
Post by: C5Allroad on Fri, 21 November 2014, 21:49:03

Okay... So that thread I made,  help with win 8 or something, I said that I can boot into windows, I can also see the boot screen and it loading. However, once the windows icon goes away and I hear the chime, no video. Earlier I managed to spam F8 and tried to get into safe mode.  Zip. So now I got a nice deep red up on second monitor, first time after a few restarts. Haven't gotten it back though. I got a blue screen while booting though. Thought that was odd...

Title: Re: Dead GPU questions....
Post by: C5Allroad on Fri, 21 November 2014, 22:06:18

Wait.... I found a reset a button...
Those things always work, right?

Title: Re: Dead GPU questions....
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 22 November 2014, 02:17:08

you want to hold f8 before you see the windows logo.. (http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/uhuhuh-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862523)

Title: Re: Dead GPU questions....
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 22 November 2014, 02:27:16

Deep red?  Nvidia GPU?  Need more info, like CPU, mobo, what else you've tried, and so on.  It may be a BIOS/UEFI setting, which is Delete spamming on some mobos.

Anyways, inb4 oven trick.

Title: Re: Dead GPU questions....
Post by: C5Allroad on Sat, 22 November 2014, 11:09:31

Well, it's a 560m...

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 22 November 2014, 02:17:08

you want to hold f8 before you see the windows logo..

Show Image

(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/uhuhuh-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862523)

The thing is, windows 8.... It's hard as hell to get into that debug... So you pretty much had to spam it to get into it.
I found a reset option in there. Seems to be working now..
I need to install a game to test this computer now, after I install drivers, it sits, turning on and off the display.

Title: Re: Dead GPU questions....
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 22 November 2014, 12:36:36

any chance you could roll back to 7 ? (http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/uhuhuh-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862523)

Title: Re: Dead GPU questions....
Post by: C5Allroad on Sat, 22 November 2014, 22:02:28

I wish. My little brother got win8 when he had win7. Not sure how he got win8 though.
He kind of got it for free....
I pressed reset and everything is like new.
He also lost the disc for windows 7 that came with the computer... How convenient.