John Colby
jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com
Tue Apr 11 15:45:03 CDT 2006
>Does it not return a Chip Type under Windows Video? Nope >Or a name under PCI/AGP Video|Device Description? Yep >Or a Video Adaptor Value under Graphics Processor (GPU)? Yep. This is an Emachines laptop which has been functioning fine (for 2 years now) until I had a problem with NAV not updating it's virus defs. In the process of attempting to uninstall that, Windows itself got hosed. I performed a "repair" of Windows which hosed the display adapter. Things are going down hill. In fact the system is ALMOST back to normal, except for the fact that the video adapter is entirely missing to Windows (and every other program / utility). Windows is using some "emergency" graphics adapter AFAICT which limits me to 800x600 and 1024 x 768 modes. In fact if I disable THAT emergency adapter, windows boots up entirely with NOTHING displayed - a terrifying experience. Makes me understand how a blind person (who could once see) must feel. Anyway, my native mode graphics is 1600 x 1200 IIRC, and the 1024x768 mode is just ugly - blurry, horrid fonts etc. But I cannot get any graphics drivers to install because somehow Windows "lost" the "graphics adapter" section of the hardware tree, and therefore the graphics drivers installation programs can't figure out what to do with the drivers, and just refuse to install. So far I have spent probably 40 hours uninstalling NAV (about 6 times before finally getting a good install) and repairing my windows, then trying to get these (real) graphics drivers to load. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Bryce Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:19 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] No display adapter John Does it not return a Chip Type under Windows Video? Or a name under PCI/AGP Video|Device Description? Or a Video Adaptor Value under Graphics Processor (GPU)? If not, what make of machine is it? Ralph Bryce -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: 11 April 2006 20:51 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] No display adapter Man, this thing is nice. Lots of info. It sees my physical display adapter (pci/agp video), but it does not see a windows video. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Ralph Bryce Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:32 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] No display adapter John Have you tried Aida32? http://www.majorgeeks.com/download181.html (3MB download) It's a free sys info tool that will tell you more about your system than you'll want to know - including what it thinks your display adaptor is. That may point you to a suitable driver... Ralph Bryce -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com