Need some help.

[Deleted]

Yesterday my screen started to act funny and my computer shutdown. After trying to reboot. It wouldn't even want to load.

After a few hours. I tried booting hdmi from onboard and it booted. Tried booting back onto my gfx card and it came up with Lines on my screen with Square pixel boxes and kept flashing then going black screen. thought it could been a driver update so uninstalled my drivers and rebooted my pc and now it won't boot with the hdmi. I had to plug VGA converter into my gfx card to boot back and installed the original drivers from cd, and the same problem came back on my gfx card. So i believe my gfx card may of went home. so removed the card and plugged my hdmi back into onboard and now it keeps booting into black screen with no sound.

If i plug VGA into onboard. it boots up perfect. installed the onboard intel drivers and tried to switch back to HDMI but nothing, just black screen.

My old Card is MSI R7850 2GB DDR5
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Now i'm looking to buy MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (4096 MB)

Would this card be possible to install onto my computer?

Specs are

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Motherboard : ASUS P8Z77-V

and my last question is. I booted my pc onboard with HDMI cable yesterday, but after removing the drivers from my old gfx card, It won't boot hdmi anymore. only VGA. would be nice to get this solved.

[Lathais]

Buy a RX480 instead of the GTX 960. The RX 480 will perform close to the 970 and is around the same price as the 960.

As for the other problem, try updating the motherboard drivers.

[Sorshen]

It does sound like your GPU has kicked the bucket.

About booting on HDMI, first check your bios. You may also need to clear all video drivers and disable windows update installing (bad) drivers from safe mode - "Never install driver updates from Windows Update". Then you boot normally and manually install your drivers.

About the replacement - the GTX 960 ain't really a viable card for its price anymore, the RX 480 is out already in some markets (or will be soon), and it offers close to GTX 980 levels of performance for ~200$.

[Lathais]

It does sound like your GPU has kicked the bucket.

About booting on HDMI, first check your bios. You may also need to clear all video drivers and disable windows update installing (bad) drivers from safe mode - "Never install driver updates from Windows Update". Then you boot normally and manually install your drivers.

About the replacement - the GTX 960 ain't really a viable card for its price anymore, the RX 480 is out already in some markets (or will be soon), and it offers close to GTX 980 levels of performance for ~200$.

Close to 980 is exaggerating a bit. It performs in between the 970 and the 980, but is closer to the 970 in performance. It's still a great card for the proce and would definitely pick one up over a 960, and that's coming from someone who owns a 960.

[Rixis]

AIBs are reporting they can get 1450-1600 out of it, they're using dual 6pins, reference cards are naff at the moment, give it a wee while and we'll get a better idea of where it places compared to the 9xx cards. Drivers will get more out of it too as we go on.

[Sorshen]

Close to 980 is exaggerating a bit. It performs in between the 970 and the 980, but is closer to the 970 in performance. It's still a great card for the proce and would definitely pick one up over a 960, and that's coming from someone who owns a 960.

You're right, I've had the "initial leaks" in mind, the card does perform at 970 levels in some games and better in others. Time/drivers will tell, but at this price point there's no competition... for now :P

[Deleted]

It does sound like your GPU has kicked the bucket.

About booting on HDMI, first check your bios. You may also need to clear all video drivers and disable windows update installing (bad) drivers from safe mode - "Never install driver updates from Windows Update". Then you boot normally and manually install your drivers.

About the replacement - the GTX 960 ain't really a viable card for its price anymore, the RX 480 is out already in some markets (or will be soon), and it offers close to GTX 980 levels of performance for ~200$.

I did a fresh reinstall on the HDD. didn't install no Drivers. Shutdown pc. Plugged in HDMI. and Still not booting anymore
and Nothing in the Bios is showing me about HDMI support but it was working today till i removed Intel and AMD drivers.

Even checked the hdmi into my xbox360 / Visionbox and even my girlfriends pc. the cable works. My hdmi ports on my tv works. It just doesn't wanna accept it on my pc anymore.

[Lathais]

You're right, I've had the "initial leaks" in mind, the card does perform at 970 levels in some games and better in others. Time/drivers will tell, but at this price point there's no competition... for now :P

The 1060 might give it a run for the money, but I doubt it. Seeing as the 1070/1080 cost more than the 970/980 did at release, the 1060 likely will too, which will place it a decent amount above the 480. Even if it performs better than the 480, I still suspect that the 480 is slightly cut down as the number of stream processors does not make sense, so AMD can likely release a 480ti at the same price point as the 1060. It is kinda funny how quickly after the release of the 480 nvidia announced moving up it's 1060 release though. They are obviously scared.

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I did a fresh reinstall on the HDD. didn't install no Drivers. Shutdown pc. Plugged in HDMI. and Still not booting anymore
and Nothing in the Bios is showing me about HDMI support but it was working today till i removed Intel and AMD drivers.

Even checked the hdmi into my xbox360 / Visionbox and even my girlfriends pc. the cable works. My hdmi ports on my tv works. It just doesn't wanna accept it on my pc anymore.

The intel drivers are the drivers for the onboard GPU, so that is likely your problem.

[Deleted]

Buy a RX480 instead of the GTX 960. The RX 480 will perform close to the 970 and is around the same price as the 960.

As for the other problem, try updating the motherboard drivers.

Sadly I only have £200 to spend on the Computer. I needed a new PSU / SSD and new gaming headset for legion so the budget is quite low for gaming now. Wished this broke before so i could of not spent money on the gaming headset ><

but i'm greatful for the help from everyone, thank you.

[Lathais]

Sadly I only have £200 to spend on the Computer. I needed a new PSU / SSD and new gaming headset for legion so the budget is quite low for gaming now. Wished this broke before so i could of not spent money on the gaming headset ><

but i'm greatful for the help from everyone, thank you.

If you were planning on buying a 960, the 480 is going to be right around the same price. Here in the US the cheapest 960s are still about $160 with the many others still being over $200. The RX 480 is going to be $200 for the 4GB version, so the RX 480 is really about the same price as the 960 and a much better card, nearly twice as powerful. I guess results may vary in your country, but the 480 should be priced very close to the 960, so if you can't afford the 480, you likely can't afford the 960. If this is the case, and you really can not afford a 480 but can afford a 960, I would still not recommend the 960. You can get a 950 for much cheaper and OC it and it will preform nearly the same as the 960. If budget is a concern, this is a far better option. The 960 is just in a really bad spot right now and a horrible buy. For much less than it, you can get nearly the same performance and for the same price, maybe a little more, you can get nearly twice the performance. Do not buy a 960, it is a rip-off right now.

[Sorshen]

Or wait for the RX 470 - seems to be between GTX 780/R9 380X and R9 290 at a possible ~150$

[Lathais]

Or wait for the RX 470 - seems to be between GTX 780/R9 380X and R9 290 at a possible ~150$

Well, seeing as he has now video card at all currently, waiting does not seem like a good option to me at all. Better to just get a 950 and OC it or a 480 now. Just as long as he doesn't get a 960. Really, other than the 950 at extremely small budgets, nothing from the 9xx series or the 3xx series are good buys at all right now. May as well just flush the money down the toilet.