Gearsguy Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 (edited) So looks like my 555M is gone. One can consider that a sort of a downer Anyways, I was playing Crysis 2 when I BSOD'd. Nice eh? Then I reboot back into windows, everythings fine. So after doing some windows stuff for a while (CCleaner, new theme, ect), I go to overclock my GPU so I can finish playing crysis, when I see that my NVIDIA control panel looks like this (and its gone from right clicking on desktop, I just use a desktop icon for it) Then I go into Device Manager to see if I need to reboot the driver or something, and my GPU is no where to be seen. Not even like default VGA adapter. Just the Intel HD. AND THEN, I went to install my drivers again as I still had the files with the modded INF, and it said no compatible hardware found no me gusta Edited September 21, 2011 by svl7 added [solved] tag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted September 21, 2011 Founder Share Posted September 21, 2011 under device manager right click and select "scan for hardware changes" it might detect you GPU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveb00bs Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 can you do a battery drain with the cmos battery out, or is it too complicated on the M14x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearsguy Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 under device manager right click and select "scan for hardware changes" it might detect you GPUNothing :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted September 21, 2011 Founder Share Posted September 21, 2011 can you uninstall the nvidia drivers? do you see them under programs and features? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjahunter Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 (edited) I had a problem that sounds almost identical to yours, if a few reboots doesnt help then you can do what i did. I clean installed the latest nvidia driver (with driver sweeper) and re installed direct-x through their offline installer. Usually BSOD is because of direct x crashing and could potentially get damaged. Anywho thats all the advice i got. other than that tech support might have some stupid idea that might work lol.on a side note my card re appeared after a few reboots after un installing my driver. dont know the relevance but it might help. Edited September 21, 2011 by Ninjahunter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekojin Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Hi,don't panic, this happened to me too a few weeks ago.Power off your machine. Unplug the AC and open the back cover. If you never opened the cover, be carefull when opening it, you have to slide / push it and NOT lift it. If you are unsure, just watch a youtube video on how to disamble it.After the cover is open, unplug the battery (just pull out the cable, no need to remove it).Now with the battery and the AC unplugged, press and keep pressing the Alien Button (Power on Button) for about 30 seconds.Reconnect the battery and reassemble the cover.Now boot into bios and load optimal defaults.Save and boot to windows.Normally everything should work as normal again. (The Geforce should also be listened in the bios again).//Edit//I just remember having trouble with the grafic card drivers when my accound did not have admin rights and the User account control was turned on. For some reason I kept getting blue screens of death. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevenxowens792 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Reading through these we are blessed at this site to have great members and great advise. Gears, try all of these and let us know. Im sure your gpu will come back.Best Wishes,StevenX 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearsguy Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 Id rather not open the machine, Im sure it can be fixed by software (as like 90% of problems are software-related; this one probably being drivers). Ill try everyones suggestions though. If it still cant be resolved, ill try it as a last resort nekojin.EDIT: I turned off my computer, left it off for about 3 hours, and turned it back on. Viola, GPU is back and I can successfully access the control panel. Dont know what happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted September 21, 2011 Founder Share Posted September 21, 2011 lol that was strange, question, did you shut it down again before that or you just kept rebooting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearsguy Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 I rebooted once when I first noticed the problem and it did nothing. Then after I just straight turned it off it was fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Hi,don't panic, this happened to me too a few weeks ago.Power off your machine. Unplug the AC and open the back cover. If you never opened the cover, be carefull when opening it, you have to slide / push it and NOT lift it. If you are unsure, just watch a youtube video on how to disamble it.After the cover is open, unplug the battery (just pull out the cable, no need to remove it).Now with the battery and the AC unplugged, press and keep pressing the Alien Button (Power on Button) for about 30 seconds.Reconnect the battery and reassemble the cover.Now boot into bios and load optimal defaults.Save and boot to windows.Normally everything should work as normal again. (The Geforce should also be listened in the bios again).//Edit//I just remember having trouble with the grafic card drivers when my accound did not have admin rights and the User account control was turned on. For some reason I kept getting blue screens of death.Thanks for posting that this method also solves any problems that may have come from setting certain setting wrong in an unlocked bios and the system is not booting... that same method should recover from any incorrectly set values... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristoferNathan Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I must admit, I was afraid for you good sir. Congrats on it being a non-serious issue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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