Warning for people installing graphics cards

WardenWolf · Sep 1, 2007, 09:11 PM

If you cancel the driver installation during hardware detection instead of letting it search for a driver (even if it only uses the default driver), Vista will disable your graphics card. That means no display. The screen goes black, and you cannot see anything because Vista actually disables it.

If this happens: immediately press the Reset switch. Do NOT shut down! From the prompt during startup, choose Last Known Good Configuration. This will roll back your settings to what they were prior to your last bootup. Then you can go in and install the driver properly.

Judas · Sep 5, 2007, 12:09 AM

I haven't ran into this... unless there is more then one graphics adapter available....

jgis19 · Sep 5, 2007, 12:36 AM

I haven't had any problems either and I just installed the newest Nvidia Vista driver.

Sep 1, 2007, 09:11 PM	#1
WardenWolf DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 43 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Warning for people installing graphics cards If you cancel the driver installation during hardware detection instead of letting it search for a driver (even if it only uses the default driver), Vista will disable your graphics card. That means no display. The screen goes black, and you cannot see anything because Vista actually disables it. If this happens: immediately press the Reset switch. Do NOT shut down! From the prompt during startup, choose Last Known Good Configuration. This will roll back your settings to what they were prior to your last bootup. Then you can go in and install the driver properly.

Sep 5, 2007, 12:36 AM	#3
jgis19 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington,Texas Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	I haven't had any problems either and I just installed the newest Nvidia Vista driver.