PC Background: Built My PC ~2 years ago, and have had an unfair number of issues with it in the past - all of which i have learnt how to fix, except, of course, for the newest edition of Ben's PC screwing up:
Rewind to ~4/5 months ago: just using my computer, when i go out of my room for around 5 minutes. By the time i get back, my computer has restarted and is not giving an image through display (2). I go into OpenHardwareMonitor and my graphics card is no longer recognised.
To solve this, i swapped my motherboard for an older one that i had of the same model. Lo and behold, the graphics card is now recognised and display (2) is giving an output. Everyting is fine...
Fast Forward to yesterday. I'm playing Minecraft when i hear a short tone through my headpones and a couple minutes later my computer just restarts without any preface and performs a sort of checkdisk operation (one which i later repeated myself [done in cmd using command 'chkdsk C: /f /x /r'] to see if this was a hard disk issue, just to find out that it is the same operation that my computer did automatically after it reset initially).
This time, of course, i am having the exact same issue i have had before. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling my GPU drivers, but i could not reinstall them as 'no AMD graphics hardware was detected'.
I am aware that this is likely a hardware issue, in which case i am likely to just buy a new motherboard (since using a different mobo worked last time). In the case that this is a software issue though, i am willing to try to fix this before resorting to getting a different mobo. Also, Device Manager gave me a 'code 45' as it recognised that my
Computer Specs:
CPU: Intel i5-6500
MoBo: Gigabyte H110n, mini-ITX (Different MoBo, same model)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 460 WindForce OC 2GB
Memory: 1x8GB Corsair 2133 MHz DDR4 (+ 1x8GB GSkill Aegis)
Storage: Toshiba DT1ACA200 2TB HDD + Kingston SV300S37A120G 128 GB SSD (+ Samsung EVO nVME m.2 SSD 256 GB)
PSU: Corsair CX 650m
OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Displays: (1) LG Flatron W1942S running off mono VGA output + (2) ASUS VS248 running off GPU's HDMI output
(IMPORTANT maybe: between the first incident of this happening and the second, i have bought a new m.2 drive and another stick of 8GB of RAM - represented in 'Computer Specs:' as the parts in brackets; ()).
