Video Card Problem

[Wayne Wengert]

I am running XPPro/SP2 with all current patches. The other day my system
froze and I had to manually power off. I then restarted in Safe Mode and did
a shutdown and a normal restart. Now, in Device Manager, my video card
(NVidia GeForce 6600) shows as "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" with the
Question Mark and the propertied for that device indicate that there is no
driver. The display on my monitor is obviously not the quality I had before.

Someone suggested I uninstall that device via the Device Managaer and let
Windows re-detect it. I am concerned that if I uninstall it, I'll lose the
display since the monitor is connected to that card?

Any suggestions on how to go about resolving this?

TIA

Wayne

 

[Jon]

The reason I decided to write that, was mainly because "Wayne Wengert"

I am running XPPro/SP2 with all current patches. The other day my system
froze and I had to manually power off. I then restarted in Safe Mode and
did a shutdown and a normal restart. Now, in Device Manager, my video card
(NVidia GeForce 6600) shows as "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" with the
Question Mark and the propertied for that device indicate that there is no
driver. The display on my monitor is obviously not the quality I had
before.

Someone suggested I uninstall that device via the Device Managaer and let
Windows re-detect it. I am concerned that if I uninstall it, I'll lose the
display since the monitor is connected to that card?

Any suggestions on how to go about resolving this?

TIA

Wayne

If there's no driver detected, then pop in the cd that came with your video
card, or see if there were any drivers included on any CDs you may have
received with your computer.

If no joy finding with either of those options, then go to the nvidia site
and download the drivers for your video card

http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html

 

[Wayne Wengert]

Jon;

When I download and run the NVidia video driver installation I end up (in
Device Manager) with a device entry for the card but it has the yellow
exclamatin point - when I look at it, it indicates "This device cannot
start"?

Wayne

 

[Mike Brearley]

Then I would do what someone suggested to you, use device manager, uninstall
the card and reboot. That will wipe it out of the registry and allow the
computer to re-detect it once you reboot. Don't worry, you'll still be able
to see windows and your desktop once you reboot because windows will use a
generic driver until it or you installs the correct one.

--
Mike

Posted as-is. Any spelling and/or grammar mistakes are a direct result of a
communication glitch between my brain and my fingers which may or may not be
directly related to a lack of caffeine intake.

Jon;

When I download and run the NVidia video driver installation I end up (in
Device Manager) with a device entry for the card but it has the yellow
exclamatin point - when I look at it, it indicates "This device cannot
start"?

Wayne

 

[Wayne Wengert]

Mike;

Thanks for the reply and for explaining that it was safe to uninstall that
card. I did the uninstall and when I got to the "New Hardware" wizard I
pointed it to the directory where I had installed the latest NVidia drivers.
That did the trick.

One point of interest - when I did the uninstall, it went through an NVidia
uninstall but then I got a popup (only lasted a couple of seconds) that said
something about that it was unable to install the device as it was required
by Windows? It then restrted the system and the New Hardware Wizard kicked
in?

Wayne

Then I would do what someone suggested to you, use device manager,
uninstall the card and reboot. That will wipe it out of the registry and
allow the computer to re-detect it once you reboot. Don't worry, you'll
still be able to see windows and your desktop once you reboot because
windows will use a generic driver until it or you installs the correct
one.

--
Mike

Posted as-is. Any spelling and/or grammar mistakes are a direct result of
a communication glitch between my brain and my fingers which may or may
not be directly related to a lack of caffeine intake.

 

[Mike Brearley]

Wayne,
The error message probably had something to do with the fact that the
drivers for the card weren't installed properly. Nothing that you did, just
that something in the system wasn't associating the drivers to the card
properly.

I'm glad to hear it's working.

--
Mike

Posted as-is. Any spelling and/or grammar mistakes are a direct result of a
communication glitch between my brain and my fingers which may or may not be
directly related to a lack of caffeine intake.