5 day fast track?

Paigey

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Oh haha I just googled my issue, it's usually the first thing I do when something's wrong and I should have done it sooner as google tends to fix all of lifes problems!

Thinking it may be a compatibility issue though and not a problem with the card itself (i hope anyway!) and even if I did find a driver that seems to work from months ago, would that mean I could never install any updated drivers ever again?! I'd be scared to even try. Will try updating the BIOS tomorrow after work and cross my fingers that I don't do something wrong and make things worse!
From what I understand though Asus have some tools that make BIOS updating very easy :)
 
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Paigey

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Well this is interesting, I updated the BIOS and all was successful, put the graphics card back in and tried installing the drivers again, the drivers actually installed successfully this time without losing signal half way through! So I restarted after installing the drivers, PC was booting up, showing the Asus logo now instead of pcspecialist, and then, lost signal haha. Switched off the PC, connected up my graphics card and monitor using a VGA cable this time (with a VGA-DVI adapter for the graphics card as it doesn't have a vga port), switched on and it loaded up with no problems! Tried again connecting up my monitor with a HDMI cable, it worked too! Seems that my computer just doesn't like DVI lol (whether it's on the graphics card or the motherboard, both ports didn't work).
 
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Paigey

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Will be gutted if it's something has simple as that haha. Have used this cable for years and has been perfectly fine connecting my old PC to my old monitor
 

Paigey

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Well, got a new DVI cable today, works perfectly fine haha. Can't believe it after all this, I just assumed that if the cable's working well connecting my old pc/monitor it should be fine for this too! Seems that there are different types of DVI cables, I think my old one was DVI-D (single link) so has just 18+1 pins, this new one is DVI-D (dual link) and has 24+1 pins.

It also fixed another issue I was having while my monitor was connected via HDMI, every time I restarted my PC or opened up a game, the colours on my screen would revert back to the standard windows settings and the colours would look very dull, it wouldn't save nvidia control panels settings, and I'd have to open up the nvidia control panel, move the slider for digital vibrance like 1% and it would reset the screen back to normal. Looking around t'internet it seems to be an extremely common problem with nvidia cards/drivers, I was even contemplating phoning up PCS to see if it would be possible to trade the card in for an AMD alternative, but now being connected via DVI, everything seems great!

Huzzah. Thanks for all the advice guys, appreciate it muchly :)
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Paigey

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Haha a lot of things can be very confusing for me, would not call myself a computer expert! But I'm learning bit by bit, for every problem there's always things to be learnt! Even though the past week has been somewhat a little annoying, it's also been fun stripping down my PC, testing a number of different things trying to diagnose what's wrong, guess I was just looking for it to be a little more complicated than it actually was :D

Anyways a few pics:

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