Video Card Driver Problems

If you have outdated or corrupt video card drivers you will find it impossible to enjoy your computing experience. You may notice poor graphics, lock ups in the work of program use or even no graphics at all. The video card driver work as a bridge to communicate with the card itself, so if the drivers go bad it is like speaking on a mobile phone with poor reception, choppy, broken up and impossible to deal with.

Troubleshooting Video Card Driver Problems

You can find diagnostic tools such as Windows Aero troubleshooter. You can find this through your Start menu or if it is not installed on your process, go to Microsoft is Support page and find it under the Fix it tab. The program will scan your systems hardware and find any missing or corrupt drivers that require to get replaced.

Plenty of times when you install a new video card or a new operating process you will run in to issues with outdated, missing or corrupt drivers. Viruses can be the reason for a missing or corrupt driver as well, some viruses will often be named as an important file on your process and replace the actual with the false.

You can get missing or updated video card driver by visiting the manufactureres web-site directly. You will require to know the operating process you are jogging , the name and model of the video card installed and sometimes the type of monitor you are using, either CRT or LCD.

If you have no idea what type of video card you have installed, you can find out by following this process . 

  • Go to Start
  • Open Control Panel
  • Click Appearance and Personalization
  • Select Personalization
  • Click Display Settings
 This will display not only the information on the video card you have installed but the monitor information as well.
It can be tedious installing the updated driver by yourself. The best way to put in it is to save it to a folder on your desktop so it is basically located & go to the tool manager & then the properties of the video card & click update driver. This way you can have it follow the path you select to locate the driver you downloaded. Some manufacturer sites offer automatic installation of the drivers, where you click it to download & it will install itself after it is opened.

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