My pc just stopped detecting my video card for some reason

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This afternoon I turned on my pc and the tower came on but the monter light went amber. I was confused at first thinking that maybe my monitor got unplugged. So I checked all the connections and it still would not come on. So finally I hooked up the monitor to the onboard video card and it came on.

Once I loaded up the pc I quickly realized that my video card(geforce mx 420 PCI)was not being detected. I went into the device manager and it was not even showing that it was in the pc.

So I shut it down and removed the card and then put it back in.

It still did not detect it.

I am completely lost I can't imagine why my video card would suddenly just lose its detection like its not there and it is!

The only things that have happen is that there was a thunderstorm the night before but I have my pc on a surge protector. I recently updated my sound card and that is it.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this if possible?
 
sounds like your video card is dead. :(

You could try to plug it into a different PCI slot, or try it in a different computer to make sure it's the card.
 
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