Old Computer Crash

[Justin Kase]

This one has me stumped. I have an old lenovo computer with an OEM AMD R9 260. The graphics switched to the IGPU a long time ago, as a kid I took it in to a shop but they didn't do anything with it, and I got it back months later. Long story. Anyhow, after that I got into computers and have since built my own PCs.

Recently I cleaned out my old computer with the R9 260 in it, noticed it had dedicated graphics in it, and wondered why it wasn't working. Under drivers the GPU had the windows error code 31. I figured no problem, I'll just install the AMD auto driver updater. Soon after, the entire device blue screened. The auto repair failed, and the device turns on but no graphics will register & the monitor will remain black. I'm officially stumped, does anyone have any suggestions on how to repair it. Would love to still be able to use it for nostalgia purposes & since it was a gift from my recently deceased grandmother, but I think it might be salvage at this point. I have not tried a windows repair usb yet or tried putting in another graphics card.

[OhYou_]

eh you could give Ubuntu a try as a diagnostic step. Just find a suitable blank usb drive and follow the guide to put ubuntu on the drive and see if you can boot to that
gnu/linux has amd drivers built in so it will either work or not work. if it doesnt, then the gpu is likely brokens
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1-overview

[Justin Kase]

20 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

eh you could give Ubuntu a try as a diagnostic step. Just find a suitable blank usb drive and follow the guide to put ubuntu on the drive and see if you can boot to that
gnu/linux has amd drivers built in so it will either work or not work. if it doesnt, then the gpu is likely brokens
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1-overview

Yea, I'll try that, thanks for the tip. Been using Ubuntu on my Virtual box with my main PC so it should be an easy step. If that doesn't work I might take the hard-drive and hook it up to a USB external drive connector.