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    My Nvidia card is a ghost?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by LimaBeans, Jan 18, 2012.

  1. LimaBeans

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    Need help with my nvidia card.

    Msi x640dx
    Core i5-2430M
    NVIDIA GeForce GT540M
    6GB DDR3 RAM

    Problem:
    The video card keeps disappearing. Installed latest driver. Then the card will randomly show up in device manager. Then randomly disappear. Once gone I can't access the Nvidia settings.

    Get an error " An NVIDIA graphicd card was not detected in your system "

    .......................EDIT........................

    Ok seems like I found part of the problem.

    Did a clean install and the gt540 was still not detected. So I poped open the back cover, applied light pressure on the card. Now the card is beeing detected again. Seems like the card was loose.
     
    LimaBeans, Jan 18, 2012
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