I'm in desperate need of help.

I bought a new hard drive and did a clean install of windows vista on it.

The installation went fine and everything is running fine, except I have to unplug my graphics card and use the standard VGA built in standard thing which obviously is no good.



I've downloaded several drivers. When I try install them it gives an error relating to not having the correct hardware avaialble for the driver or something like that.

On my old XP setup I had a small X icon in the system tray which was the xpertvision menu/program - which allowed me to change stuff like the fan speed, resolution etc.

This isn't installed obviously, and seen as when I bought this graphics card last year the only drivers on the disk were for XP/2000.

I can only run vista using the graphics card when I start windows in safe mode - when I run it in normal mode I just get a blank black screen after the loading screen.

Can you advise me of a solution - or advise me if there IS any solution at all.

Windows Vista 32-Bit
geforce 7900GS 512MB
2GB RAM
Intel Pentium D processor 2.8GHtz
22 " Samsung Monitor

Thanks,
Mike

Did you download these drivers?

ForceWare Release 169

I got the error message relating to my current hardware setup when I tried to install.

The only time it doesn't throw up that error is when I have the graphics card plugged in - and the only time that happens is when I am in safe mode as it doesn't work at any other time.

OK here is what happens.

I am running in normal mode using my VGA on board graphics. I try and install those dirvers but it doesn't work as I don't have my graphics card plugged in at the time.

Therefore to install these drivers I will need to be using my graphics card to power my display. So I reboot, but of course the only way I can use my PC with my graphics card plugged in is when I'm in safe mode.

So I start in safe mode and install the drivers. They install without any problems and I am told I need to restart my PC.

I do so, and when windows runs in normal mode I get a black screen after the "Microsoft Corporation" loading screen. I know windows has started as I can hear the startup/login windows tunes in the background.

What on earth am I supposed to do now? I don't want to have to buy anything else like a new card or have to downgrade to XP.

Please advise.

OK i'll give it a go.

How do I uninstall VGA drivers?
Where abouts in BIOS will I locate the option to disable the on board VGA.
Up until now windows has shown a blank screen when I load up vista. Why will it be different this time?

Thanks.

Thanks for the quick reply.

It didn't work. I got confronted with the usual black screen again

I have no idea what to try now