My graphics card came back to life!!

[adalgiso1000]

Hi, I have an Alienware 17 R3 and two years ago my graphics card stopped working all of a sudden. It wasn't recognized by the system anymore. Last month, after a windows update, it showed up as installed and it as been working all right since then. Now the first question is how it happen since I have no idea, I never even hear of anything like this before, and the second question is about drivers that Nvidia Geforce Experience can't update. Is it safe to force the installation as the Nvidia forum suggests, or am I risking to "lose" my graphics card again? My GPU is a 980m with 8gb of vram. Thanks!

[jaslion]

You probably just have a bad windows install and your card isn't broken. That or your drivers got corrupted and a deinstall with ddu could fix it.

[manikyath]

if your GPU driver bricks, and windows happens to do a big update, it tends to get rid of any drivers the update process doesnt know what to do with.. and ofcourse windows automagically installs gpu drivers if it finds a gpu.