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Why isn't my monitor and display adapters on my device manager?

How can I get my display adapter back into device manager, and recognize my graphics card?

  • i have a nvidia geforce mx 4000, and i reformatted my computer and it will not recognize this video card. it's what i have the monitor plugged into, and when i go to desktop>properties>settings it says defualt monitor, and when i look under advanced>adapter it says it's the vgasave which is the on board card if i'm not mistaken... and in my control panel>system>device manager i do not have anything listed for a display adapter. but i do have an error it says "other devices" with a question mark. and when i click on that it has an ! "pci modem" and says there is a problem. i can find the vgasave under non-plug and play. but i do not know what to do to get my graphics card to work. i tried installing the driver a few different times. it makes me reboot but there's no change i also tried reformatting again just to see if it would recognize it... it seemed to have downloaded the driver itself but it's still not using it also in my dxdiag... it says "The system is using the generic video driver. Please install video driver provided by the hardware manufacturer. Direct3D functionality not available. You should verify that the driver is a final version from the hardware manufacturer. pleaze i've been trying for days to fix this.... it should be fixable... but i cannot figure out how

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Check at BIOS to see if the onboard video is disabled. It may not be so you should. Have a proper driver ready. If you don't have one, search at driverguide.com (free registration). Install. Locate Device Manager (in XP: Control Panel-System-Hardware), expand Display and check if it is Nvidia. If not, delete. Restart. If you installed the Nvidia driver earlier, your card should now be detected. If not, point manually to the driver folder or attempt automatic installation. If you mess this up, Windows will just use the VGA driver so you'll lose quality but still work. Continue looking for the right driver until you get it. If all else fails, enable the onboard video and use that first until you get a newer video card.

Go to nvidia's website and download the proper drivers for your card. You may need to pick it from a list and not depend on the auto-detect function they have now. After you download the driver, boot into safe mode and delete whatever adapter you have listed, and then reboot into normal mode. When Windows asks for a driver, select no and run the install program that you downloaded. Good luck! =)

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