Problems with graphics card driver

[yaro137]

I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
yaro

 

[smlunatick]

I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
yaro

Where did you get the driver?

 

[cf]

Of historical note on Fri, 2 May 2008 09:00:36 -0700 (PDT)
"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]> scribed:

|I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
|Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
|though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
|website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
|1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
|back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
|exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
|problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
|luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
|card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
|to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
|what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
|yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
|NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
|run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
|yaro

yaro,

You say you updated the BIOS but did you disable the onboard VIA graphics? If not, after a reboot the board probably reverts to the onboard graphics.

hth

 

[yaro137]

Of historical note on Fri, 2 May 2008 09:00:36 -0700 (PDT)
"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]> scribed:

|I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
|Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
|though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
|website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
|1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
|back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
|exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
|problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
|luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
|card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
|to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
|what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
|yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
|NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
|run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
|yaro

yaro,

You say you updated the BIOS but did you disable the onboard VIA graphics?If not, after a reboot the board probably reverts to the onboard graphics.

hth

I thought about it but I cannot find the integrated graphics in BIOS
to disable it.
Thanks
yaro

 

[yaro137]

Where did you get the driver?- Hide quoted text -

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For the integrated graphics first from Gigabyte and then from VIA
website. The one for the new graphics card from the driver CD that
came with it.
yaro

 

[yaro137]

Oh, and as to the BIOS settings what affect would it have to disable
the onboard graphics if the monitor is connected to another graphics
card anyway? Thanks
yaro