- Feb 12, 2016
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So apparently there's a black screen of death going on right now with Windows 10 on older computers to such degree it made it to the news here.
My dad had problems with this, so I thought I'd see if i could work it out.
Well we managed going around this as there were video outputs on the mobo as well, so we're currently running on Intel Graphics instead of the PCI Nvidia card.
But the problem started when I decided it was a great idea to re-install the Nvidia drivers and see if I could get the PCI card working again.
So I went to the device manager and uninstalled the graphics card driver, to reboot the computer and let it automatically detect and install the drivers again *sigh*
And now I sit here on my dads computer and have accidentally lost the graphics card (not the first time either I do this mistake...).
So far I've tried:
- Browsing the device manager and searched for hidden devices and hardware changes
- Plugging in the screen again to the video output of the PCI card and reboot, hoping this would make it detect the missing driver and install it
- Went into BIOS and loaded optimized defaults
- Launched Windows in failsafe mode to see if i could find anything to do there (which I didn't)
- Downloaded new drivers from Nvidia and tried installed them, which didn't work as the hardware is technically missing
- Downloaded the original drivers from Hewlett Packard, which I couldn't even run as the certificate is outdated for the file (= Windows 10 blocks the file)
- I've even tried opening the case to remove the PCI card, start the computer, turn it off, put it back in, and hope it would detect it once I turned it back on, but I just can't get my head around how to get the card out as it's mounted very wierdly (if that's even a word?)
Please help
My dad had problems with this, so I thought I'd see if i could work it out.
Well we managed going around this as there were video outputs on the mobo as well, so we're currently running on Intel Graphics instead of the PCI Nvidia card.
But the problem started when I decided it was a great idea to re-install the Nvidia drivers and see if I could get the PCI card working again.
So I went to the device manager and uninstalled the graphics card driver, to reboot the computer and let it automatically detect and install the drivers again *sigh*
And now I sit here on my dads computer and have accidentally lost the graphics card (not the first time either I do this mistake...).
So far I've tried:
- Browsing the device manager and searched for hidden devices and hardware changes
- Plugging in the screen again to the video output of the PCI card and reboot, hoping this would make it detect the missing driver and install it
- Went into BIOS and loaded optimized defaults
- Launched Windows in failsafe mode to see if i could find anything to do there (which I didn't)
- Downloaded new drivers from Nvidia and tried installed them, which didn't work as the hardware is technically missing
- Downloaded the original drivers from Hewlett Packard, which I couldn't even run as the certificate is outdated for the file (= Windows 10 blocks the file)
- I've even tried opening the case to remove the PCI card, start the computer, turn it off, put it back in, and hope it would detect it once I turned it back on, but I just can't get my head around how to get the card out as it's mounted very wierdly (if that's even a word?)
Please help
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