My Graphics Card is not getteng detected by my Laptop anymore it stopped working completely.
Initial signs:
1. I was playing Valorant (on lowest settings) and suddenly game crashed with some GPU error, afterwards game never opened.
2. Thermals were showing more than 90 degrees in Nitrosense (even in idle condition)
3. Windows started crashing frequently (BSODs: Driver state failure, Video TDR and what not)
4. Screen starts freezing even in idle conditions
Steps I did to fix it:
1. Power Reset (unpugged the battery and pressed power button to discharge the capatitors too)
2. System Restore
3. Cleaned up fans and whole laptop (reassembled whole laptop)
4. Changed Thermal Paste (very best in the market)
5. Rolled Back to windows 10 (where everything was back to normal thermals was down and was working normally except GPU drivers were missing and were not installing {GPU driver was stopping with error code 43})
6. Reinstalled windows 11 as GPU driver was not getting recognized.
7. Tried to flash Nvidia BIOS but it turns out we can't do that in this laptop (EEPROM not supported)
8. Removed GPU drivers using DDU and reinstalled GPU drivers multiple times from multiple sources (Nvidia Official Page, Nvidia Archives for old drivers, Acer Drivers support) {Everytime I installed GPU driver it was not getting started in device driver code error 43)
9.Lastly I tried the step 8 in Safe Mode, Driver got installed but when I restarted it in normal mode it again started crashing with following BSODs: Memmory error, Video TDR, Video Scheduler. (So went back into safe mode and uninstalled the GPU drivers)
Right now my Laptop is running smoothly its just that I can't use GPU anymore and can't play game (one single game Valorant) on it, I am a professional video editor so I can't even use After effects, blender, Unity nothing anymore. Bought this **** so called gaming laptop just to use Word and excel?
Also Now I read some news article that Nvidia is discontinuing its GTX 10 series. So I wonder if it was all planned or not? If they really pushed a buggy software update to corrupt the 10 series GPU or not.
Kindly share any solutions if you have. Also share if you are also facing the same issue after March-April (Windows, Nvidia) updates.
