Preditor Triton 500 - Troubleshooting a "missing" video card
Hey All! Excuse me if this is a repost, but I haven't been able to find anything that points specifically to what I've experienced.
In any case, I was playing some Assassin's Creed last night: turned on turbo, booted into the game, and managed to fool around for about two minutes before it ended up locking up and crashing. Unfortunately, I didn't save any of the relevant information from the crash but I do remember it's error message insinuating that the GPU had overheated. The computer was elevated and I have never once in the past four months of owning this had any issues with overheating. Nevertheless, after hard restarting I have yet to see the Video Card anywhere in device manager. "Turbo" mode no longer works and instead just turns the fans up, Predator Sense is is showing fan speeds for the GPU, but no temp and other information - it just shows "loading%" on the overclocking section. I've slept and unslept the computer, turned fast start off, and have found nothing promising in the BIOS.
I've tried installing Nvidia drivers and/or updating the associated firmware, but I keep getting errors that say they aren't any Nvidia products in my system. I can't find any Nvidia related display hardware in device manager either.
Are there any steps for troubleshooting this, or should I skip the hassle and send the machine in for warranty? Would whipping the computer and doing a fresh re-install of everything be a good idea?
