NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1650 Code 31 in Device Manager

[molten yacht]

So I have a Lenovo laptop (IdeaPad L340-15IRH Gaming) that's been around since late 2020-ish, and now my laptop doesnt detect my GPU (I think) I have no idea what happened really, it says: " This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API."

Im not really a tech expert to know what it is, I'm only 15 years old and I really don't have the money to get this to the repair shop.

I appreciate and will try all the solutions anyone can give me.

[acoustic flicker]

Did you something like this? Missing nvapi.dll file

Did you try delete GPU drivers and reinstall them? https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/224750/en-us/

[tropic perch]

This is a strange error that may have implications on the state of your computer.

Please show the contents of Task Manager > Performance > CPU and Task Manager > Performance > Memory.

What anti-virus software do you use? Bring up its exceptions list and post the contents of them. (Black out any personal information if paths are visible.)

[molten yacht]

I did reinstall the drivers but it didn't work, and weirdly enough, I have the nvapi.dll file on my system32

[molten yacht]

I don't have any anti virus installed because I recently resetted my laptop

[tropic perch]

Something's hogging the CPU.

Check the performance tab and sort it by CPU so that the highest CPU is at the top.

Also, you are in need for a RAM upgrade. Due to some very poor design decisions Lenovo took, a 4GB of RAM is soldered; you'll only be able to replace the other 4GB stick. Replace this stick with a 16GB of any non-XMP laptop DDR4 RAM (SODIMM). This should bring you from a cramped 8GB to a much more reasonable 20GB.

[molten yacht]

Nothing's wrong with the cpu I think

[tropic perch]

Something is wrong. You should be getting a very thin line or none, <10% CPU usage when on the desktop or with an idle browser window

Here, something is managing to soak 21%

But either way, how did you reinstall the drivers?

[molten yacht]

I ran the latest nvidia driver installer and it seemed that it detects the gpu

[tropic perch]

Does the GPU now work?

[molten yacht]

nope

wait let me like get you on some more context, when I was trying to fix it by myself, the first time I saw it the error code was something like this

So what I did was go to the microsoft community website and it said there delete it and restart the laptop

so I did, and it didnt come back

I got the gtx 1650 to reappear in my device manager through adding a legacy hardware > the advanced option > display adapters > then I clicked on the "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter ( No ACPI support)" I dont know what acpi means, and then I right clicked on it > update drivers > browse my computer for drivers > let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer > NVIDIA > GTX 1650

but the device has an error

the code 31 api error

I managed to install the latest nvidia driver but it didnt really work

there were no flashing lights that appeared on my screen

like how it would be normally when I update it

[tropic perch]

Wait a second. So what you meant is that the card straight up not exist without forcing it to exist via "Add legacy hardware"?

Instead of any error bangs

[molten yacht]

Yeah

[tropic perch]

Card might have legit died (it should have been detected upon restart)

New computer time

[molten yacht]

there some hope if I get it to a repair shop?

thats a last resort

[tropic perch]

Maybe, but usually cards don't just disappear without a good reason

[molten yacht]

I'll get it checked out then, thanks

[molten yacht]

wait do you know what can cause this?

[tropic perch]

Age

Unusually short life though

[molten yacht]

is an abnormal use of hdmi one of them>

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