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Old 10-08-2008   #1 (permalink)


Vista Ultiamte
 
 

Help anyone?!

My computer has been acting weird. In my admin account I log in and abut 10 seconds later the resolution ges low making everything look huge. In my other 2 guest accounts there is no problem. How can I fix this? I've tried changing resolution while i'm on the account but that's only temporary, when i restart the computer it's the same thing over again and all of my drivers are updated and i cant roll back any of them either ..oh and i also cant restore any previous system restore points cause well my computer doesnt have any.....
sooooo any help would be greatttly appreciated as to how to fix this!!
thanks
-N

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Old 10-08-2008   #2 (permalink)


Vista x64 Ultimate
 
 

Re: Help anyone?!

Add/remove your video drivers. Get a driver cleaner and remove all Nvidia and ATI video drivers. Restart. Reinstall the correct video driver and monitor.inf file.
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Old 10-08-2008   #3 (permalink)


Vista Ultiamte
 
 

Re: Help anyone?!

Umm yeh i'm not computer savvy at all..so i wouldnt know how to go about doing that... any step by step help would be appreciated though!
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Old 10-08-2008   #4 (permalink)


VISTA HOME PREMIUM X64/ 7 x64 / 7x86
 
 

Re: Help anyone?!

Hi Nafisa,

1) Go to the card manufacturers and download the correct drivers. If you have an nvidia graphics card, it's here

Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

2) Remove the old drivers. Go to device manager ( Control Panel>Classic View, double click Device Manager ).

Click the cross next to Display Adapters, double click your graphics card, click Driver tab, and click the Uninstall button.

3) Next (Optional - I have not needed to do this - try steps 1,2 and 4 first - if that doesn't work, you might try this ) Download and install a driver cleaner, and follow the instructions - there is one here
Guru3D - Driver Sweeper

4 ) Then Restart your computer. Install the new driver you downloaded - just right click it and run as admin - will probably ask you to restart again.

Hope that helps

SIW2
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Old 10-08-2008   #5 (permalink)


Vista Ultiamte
 
 

Re: Help anyone?!

SIW2 thanks, I'm going to try it now. I'll let you know how this works out for me.
*fingers crossed*

Thanks again.
-N

ok so this is my graphics card -Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - XDDM)
and the monitors are Generic... What do you think?!?

Last edited by Nafisa123; 10-08-2008 at 11:13 AM.. Reason: !@!#$
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