graphics adapter

When a modern operating system built for multicore CPUs and GPU-accelerated compositing is forced to run in a display mode designed before many readers were born, the result is part engineering curiosity and part living museum exhibit — and that’s exactly what happened when Windows 8.1 was...

Hi I accidentally disabled graphic adapter in device manager and got black screen. I've tried to reactivate graphic adapter through: windows key + ctr + shift + B boot with windows installation disc boot with windows recovery usb boot with F8 to enter BIOS settings All methods failed. How...

Hello y'all. I have an unusual problem with my display resolution. As many others, I have an older Dell laptop with an Intel Graphics 3000 adapter. Like many others, Windows 10 suddenly won't let me change the resolution to 1920. But in my unique case this happens only ONCE IN A WHILE. A...

​Hi all, I've installed Win 7 a few days ago. I somehow installed the drivers such as wireless card, audio, etc. But I couldn't install the video driver, which was before ATI Radeon x300. I made a very deep search via web and Ati seems to not support some of their cards in Win7 and the solution...

Hi, I have a custom built Toshiba laptop that was formally windows xp professional but now is Windows 7 ultimate. Since I am a gamer, I wanted to figure out why my graphics driver would not update since it seems the VGAGA is low tier/generic. I'm trying to get ANY type of upgrade... I've tried...

I am running a sony VGN-AR 870 w7 x64 I had my 8600 working fine but I had to update drivers. So I uninstalled the current driver because I couldnt update. Now My comp wont even recognize the hardware so I am stuck in 800 x 600 and in device manager it says "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter"...

My windows7 ultimate laptop currently doesn't present me with an option to access dual monitors nor will it connect to my external monitor. I try win + p and nothing happens. The monitor works, and was tested successfully this morning. Yes, is it plugged in and connected to my laptop. Yes...

So here's the issue: Radeon X1550 256 MB PCI installs fine and shows up in the Device Manager, but when I right-Click on the desktop and click on "Screen Resolution", under the "Display" drop down menu, I ONLY get the "1. Generic PNP Monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" that is listed. The...

I've been running windows 7 on my laptop (Dell XPS 1530) for about 6 months and its been working well. Today I used my computer and it was fine, came back a couple hours and turned it on and nothing is appearing on the screen The backlight is working and i can tell the screen is turning on...

i know this is totally unrelated to windows 7, but i have an issue with some video drivers which refuse to install on windows 2008, i know they work on windows 2003, but i just assume that drivers for these two operating systems are similar ?? does anyone know what i need to change in an .inf...

I have and old WinFast A250 and there are no supported drivers for it on win7, on vista I could just go update the drivers manually from the device manager and use the old ones, but on win7 it says: "The best driver software for your device is already installed" It's the "Standard VGA...

Hi, I have a T400 which has the following two display adapters: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family After installing Windows 7 and checking device manager, the ATI adapter does show up under the "Display adapters' section, but it has a ! sign...

This is for laptop owners such as me who have the Dell 700M laptop or any computer using the integrated Intel mobile 852/855 graphics adapter from Intel. The drivers released by Intel for Windows XP are incompatible with Windows 7. While there is compatibility for this device in Windows Vista...