Did all that. Gonna face the hard truth that ASUS sucks. In 2011 they sold me a laptop for over 1200.00 that overheated like a b...... I'm betting the vid card got fried. And there is no rescue like you can do baking a desktop vid card.
What annoys me is they don't respond to me. They want to charge me $36 to ask a question on the phone. Their website Sucks. Everything about the company sucks.
Had I known this, I would have gotten something else at the time.
When the keyboard died, I had to fight them for over 2 months for a replacement UNDER WARRANTY, mind you. They finally sent it and said the install info would be in an email. never got the install email. So I watched on you tube how to do it like I learn how to do everything else from you tube.
I will open it up tomorrow but I'm betting the card is soldered to the mobo.
Wonderful.