Hello,
I'm on my step-dad's Sony Vaio laptop. Last time I used it was around 2012. Between then and now he has sent it off to best buy and other computer repair places. Today, I got on it and instantly noticed that the resolution was low so I went to go change it. This is where the problem begins. The maximum resolution I can set it to 1280x1024. I thought, maybe I should just go update the drivers which should've already been up to date. I went on the Nvidia website to detect the card and the driver it needed but it kept saying I needed Java which I installed 4 separate times through the link it provided as well as through the website "Ninite" and the actual Java website. My next move was to go into Device Manager and do it from there. When I looked it said the name of the card was "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter". I got scared for a second, I thought maybe my step dad took it to some sketchy repairman who then proceed to swap out the cards since he probably knew that my step dad knows nothing about computers(still haven't ruled that option out). I then pulled up DxDiag to look at the display page on there but it says the Chip and DAC type are both by NVIDIA. I'm not sure what to do anymore. I really just wanted to update the drivers to have the resolution set to 1920x1080p and play League of Legends in class!
All help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jeremy Perez
I'm on my step-dad's Sony Vaio laptop. Last time I used it was around 2012. Between then and now he has sent it off to best buy and other computer repair places. Today, I got on it and instantly noticed that the resolution was low so I went to go change it. This is where the problem begins. The maximum resolution I can set it to 1280x1024. I thought, maybe I should just go update the drivers which should've already been up to date. I went on the Nvidia website to detect the card and the driver it needed but it kept saying I needed Java which I installed 4 separate times through the link it provided as well as through the website "Ninite" and the actual Java website. My next move was to go into Device Manager and do it from there. When I looked it said the name of the card was "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter". I got scared for a second, I thought maybe my step dad took it to some sketchy repairman who then proceed to swap out the cards since he probably knew that my step dad knows nothing about computers(still haven't ruled that option out). I then pulled up DxDiag to look at the display page on there but it says the Chip and DAC type are both by NVIDIA. I'm not sure what to do anymore. I really just wanted to update the drivers to have the resolution set to 1920x1080p and play League of Legends in class!
All help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jeremy Perez
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