This is a two-parter. First, I'm trying to see if I can get some help figuring out why I'm getting black screen when my GPU is enabled. Second, if the card turns out to be fried, what might be some good (AMD) cards to look at, or how can I start to go about finding a good card?
Black Screen: Today my games were going fine. I'd actually been having a stuttering issue (from the GPU clock dropping to 300 MHZ for some reason), but today it wasn't happening, which was strange. Later, in a discord call my computer crashed and got a blue screen. I restarted the computer and all was good for 45 mins until I left the call, and heard a lot of noise as my screen went gray. I restarted right away, but now if I have my GPU enabled I cannot get to the login screen, it just goes to black.
What I've Tried: via articles from googling, I tried to uninstall and reinstall the GPU Drivers (I get black screen again partway through the install, when the card gets reenabled I'm assuming), but no luck. I tried to use an older AMD driver, still get black screen partway through install. I am going to later tonight attempt to pull the video card out and put it back in, do the same with my two ram cards, check all the plugs, check the thermal paste on the video card, etc etc. I feel like nothing will come of this, so to my next point.
How can I tell for sure my card is dead dead? I don't want to throw this card away if it's fine and there is just a hangup. But I don't know what the "line" is for knowing when a card is just straight up dead. And if it is dead, do you have any AMD cards I should look at, or know how I can start researching what card to get? I don't now what's important to consider or not.
