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Posted: February 24, 2009 01:39 pm  | |||
      IRC Nickname: Groedius Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1556 Member No.: 99 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 256    | I have a graphics card problem that seems to elude me. When i try to update my Graphics card driver when i restart my screen is locked to 600 x 400 in 4 bit colour and all looks messed up. Sometimes when i try to run a disc game this can happen too it gives me an NV4 error or something i will be sure to screenshot it the next time. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the card then put on the new driver and i still getting the same problem. Does this mean my actual card is fucked ? --------------------   | ||
Posted: February 24, 2009 02:12 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Anthonysc Group: Emeritus Posts: 49 Member No.: 1730 Joined: February 20, 2009 Total Events Attended: 0 | Not necessarily, It might just be a bad driver, what gfx card are you using and what driver? -------------------- Ex-Secondary Leader, Ex-Council, The Original Forum Tech Original Join Date: 23-October 04 | ||
Posted: February 24, 2009 06:50 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Samurai-JM Group: Emeritus Posts: 3204 Member No.: 117 Joined: January 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | sounds like a driver issue, it's not often that the actual card will force you into crappy settings. like Anthony said post which stuff your using and we can probably figure something out. -------------------- -=}¤- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -¤{=-  W I N N I N G | ||
Posted: February 25, 2009 04:57 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 |
Yea, most likely driver issue. I have run into this issue a fair amount - usually caused by the driver not being able to run and windows falling back to a default. Note that it *may* be caused by the video card not being seated correctly, wiggle it and make sure its sitting straight in its socket. Other than that, just get a driver-cleaner util(don't pay for one, get something thats *freeware*), clean off your video drivers, and reinstall em. Perhaps also try different driver versions if you need. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
Posted: February 25, 2009 06:44 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Anthonysc Group: Emeritus Posts: 49 Member No.: 1730 Joined: February 20, 2009 Total Events Attended: 0 |
Or he could just use device manager and check the box to delete the driver -------------------- Ex-Secondary Leader, Ex-Council, The Original Forum Tech Original Join Date: 23-October 04 | ||
Posted: February 25, 2009 07:08 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Groedius Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1556 Member No.: 99 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 256 |
Im using an 8800 GTX OC2 from BFG tech atm im using the original drivers from 2007. I go to the Nvidia site to update these drivers download and install new drivers then the whole thing fucks up 600 x 400 4 bit colour mode until i uninstall and reinstall the card. Sometimes when i play disc games this can happen aswell. I dont know why it happens when i get the driver because im CERTAIN I download the right 1. The only other idea i got left is to uninstall it then use a software like robbie said to completly remove the driver then install the new downloaded one going to attempt this now. -------------------- | ||
Posted: February 25, 2009 07:59 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Groedius Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1556 Member No.: 99 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 256 | Ok well idk how i did it but somehow i installed the latest drivers and its working so no need for this topic anymore and sorry for double post -------------------- | ||
Posted: February 26, 2009 04:02 am | |||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 |
That works... sometimes. Problem is, that doesn't remove all the installed files & registry settings that installing drivers generally add(usually they come with a control panel of some sort, there are those files and such). For most things, you can generally get away with leaving the junk, but when you are dealing with your graphics card(especially when dealing with multiple major versions of the drivers - it goes without saying that you definitely need to do this if you are upgrading to/from 3rd party drivers), most people recommend using a proper cleaner to completely remove the whole thing, not just removing the driver file from being used. Note that even simply uninstalling all software related to the driver won't work - Just try this: Uninstall a driver for some piece of hardware you have. Do the best you can to clean up all files associated with it, now have windows redetect the hardware and attempt to find drivers for it. 99% of the time, it will find the (uninstalled but not deleted) driver files deep in the windows folder and install the driver for you. Great.... unless the driver happens to be corrupted. Also, don't count on never versions of the driver overwriting old ones completely. In theory it should happen, but what happens when it *doesn't*. -RobbieThe1st -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||
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