my friend is having a issue atm. his sys specs are:
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155
8GB Memory
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950
He was playing Total Rome and and and had to lower the settings, then things went south...
I was playing Total Rome II. I go to change the graphic settings so they are lower.
When it changes the graphics I get a red screen and my computer restarts. When it turns back on the resolution was set to the minimum instead of 1080x1920p.
All of my desktop icons were in a jumble. Before I rearranged them I walk away and while I'm gone the computer goes on stand by. When I come back the screen won't wake back up (computer comes on). I try restarting but, it wan't come back on.
After trying to figure it out I plug a VGA cable into the back of the motherboard and hook other end into back of the monitor. I get the screen working. When I plug a DVI cable into motherboard or graphics card it will not work. So screen is working.
I check to see if my graphics card has a driver because something like this has happened before. I download the latest driver and try to install it, it installs successfully but when I checked in the device manager there was no driver listed, my graphics card was not even listed.
I take the graphics card disk and put in the disk drive and install the driver from it and again it says it was successful but, again it was not there. I tried uninstalling the driver and used a driver cleaning software. I restart the computer and try using the graphics card disk to install it's driver and again says it is successful but it didn't install.
I tried uninstalling the driver, it said it could not find anything to uninstall.
so my question is has his GPU given up the ghost or is there something he missed?