When i originally got my computer built my graphics card wouldn't work all the time, but i figured it was just a driver issue and i uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times until finally it seemed to be fixed. Now a couple months later I ran into the same problems, only switching drivers did nothing at all and it finally just wouldn't display anything.
I went ahead and bought an 8800GT to replace the 3850, and its just not displaying anything at all either.
I think i disabled onboard graphics, so i reset the bios by taking out the battery and unhooking the computer for around 15 minutes but after that the onboard graphics still didn't work.
I was searching online and one guy said 99% of the time its either ram or motherboard, so i put one ram stick in at a time and rebooted and it didn't work with either stick of ram so I'm thinking it has got to be the motherboard correct? I also tried unhooking everything not necessary from the psu thinking it may have been the psu, but that wouldn't explain why it had worked fine the past 3-4 months and then just stopped working, and it didn't work either.
So is it motherboard for sure or could it be something else?
I went ahead and bought an 8800GT to replace the 3850, and its just not displaying anything at all either.
I think i disabled onboard graphics, so i reset the bios by taking out the battery and unhooking the computer for around 15 minutes but after that the onboard graphics still didn't work.
I was searching online and one guy said 99% of the time its either ram or motherboard, so i put one ram stick in at a time and rebooted and it didn't work with either stick of ram so I'm thinking it has got to be the motherboard correct? I also tried unhooking everything not necessary from the psu thinking it may have been the psu, but that wouldn't explain why it had worked fine the past 3-4 months and then just stopped working, and it didn't work either.
So is it motherboard for sure or could it be something else?