Graphics card may have died

Martin.23 · April 20

Last night when I turned off my PC using alt+f4 on the desktop, I heard a pop from my PC, I didn't think much of it and went to sleep. Today I wanted to play some nfs and when I opened the game it crashed, I tried again and again but to no avail. I checked the task manager to see if something was eating up ram or smthn and my graphics card wasn't showing up. I checked on it in the PC and I saw the fans rotating. Then I opened the graphics settings and everything was set to integrated graphics so I tried switching it to the amd rx-6600 but it just wasn't showing up.

Any advice on what I should do? I can always have it fixed but if it's not broken why would I?

MrSimplicity · April 20

Sounds like it popped a chip. GPU is dead. If your HDMI/DP is still connected to your GPU, and you're getting your display, then it's not dead dead. Could maybe try to DDU your amd drivers in safe mode then reinstall them and restart. There's also a chance something PCIe related died on the Mobo. Doesn't look like it but do you have another PCIe slot you could try or even another computer by chance. It's just weird that you're still getting display out without the GPU registering.

Martin.23 · April 20

10 minutes ago, MrSimplicity said:

Sounds like it popped a chip. GPU is dead. If your HDMI/DP is still connected to your GPU, and you're getting your display, then it's not dead dead. Could maybe try to DDU your amd drivers in safe mode then reinstall them and restart. There's also a chance something PCIe related died on the Mobo. Doesn't look like it but do you have another PCIe slot you could try or even another computer by chance. It's just weird that you're still getting display out without the GPU registering.

I'll try to do that and I hope it works.

Thank you!