Basically not sure what happened... but I need a new video card. I want to spend ~$150-160 but everything i'm looking at seems to be $180 - 200+
I've been using a 7750 for sometime and I installed/played SM for ~4 hours saturday night, turned off my computer and when I woke up and turned on my comp the monitors would not turn on. I shut it down carefully and turned it on multiple times and nothing. I plugged a monitor into the onboard video and that was pretty much fine after a couple resolution tweaks. I tried the 7750 again and nothing. I did a couple small things thinking it would help the pci-e but nothing. I had to go out and spend $35 on a 5450 to get me through (i work from home, etc). The guy at the tech desk at Fry's said there's physically nothing wrong with the 7750 (wanted to charge me $40 to put it in a machine and confirm it's state of being - i said i'm buying a $40 card instead). Could SM have seriously done this? tipped my card over the edge?? lol. idk. thoughts? input pls