Video card suddenly stopped working on laptop - Code 12 This device can not find enough free resources
I was hoping somebody could help me figure out how to fix (and possibly why) my laptop that no longer recognizes the built in video card. It is a hp 6910p laptop running windows 7. I turned it off before I went out of town for the weekend; I came back and have been living with 800x600 for the past 24 hours. After troubleshooting to see if the video card driver (all drivers are up to date) had messed up, I realized the video card was no long recognized at all by the device. Upon further investigation I found this: http://imgur.com/L45Os telling me something was wrong and http://imgur.com/Eknie telling me that the problem was a code 12.
Can anybody give me an idea of how to fix this please?
Posted Mar 26, 2012, 6:43 PM UTC
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When I got this message with one of my Radeon 4870's, it was because some of the video RAM chips had visibly fried on the card. You wouldn't think that fried vRAM would show up as a resource error in Windows. Your best bet is to try using System Restore to go back to a date when it was working. If that fails, it really could be a hardware failure.
I don't think that would really make sense because the laptop had been working, I shut it down, and then booted it back up two days later and it wasn't working. I don't see how physical damage could have happened during the downtime, but I guess it is a possibility.
That's the same thing that happened with my 4870. It worked the last time I had shut it down. I have no idea when it fried, or why. Old age I guess.