Problems with graphics card driver

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yaro137

I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
yaro
 
I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
yaro
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Where did you get the driver?
 
Of historical note on Fri, 2 May 2008 09:00:36 -0700 (PDT)
"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]> scribed:

|I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
|Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
|though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
|website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
|1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
|back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
|exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
|problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
|luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
|card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
|to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
|what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
|yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
|NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
|run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
|yaro

yaro,

You say you updated the BIOS but did you disable the onboard VIA graphics? If not, after a reboot the board probably reverts to the onboard graphics.

hth
 
Of historical note on Fri, 2 May 2008 09:00:36 -0700 (PDT)
"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]> scribed:

|I've got a Gigabyte motherboard with on-board VIA graphics and a
|Haans.G wide screen monitor. No CD that came with the motherboard
|though. After downloading the graphics driver from manufacturers
|website I was able to change the resolution to what I want which is
|1280x786pix. After rebooting the computer graphics card driver goes
|back to generic driver and in device manager I've got a yellow
|exclamation mark next to the graphics card. I was struggling with the
|problem for a while also downloading the driver straight from VIA. No
|luck. Finally fed up with all this situation I bought an AGP graphics
|card from NVidia, installed the drivers and eventually set the monitor
|to required settings. All was fine till I rebooted the computer. Guess
|what... I'm back with generic driver and in device manager I've got a
|yellow exclamation mark next to the graphics card where it says
|NVidia .... I attempted one last try updating the BIOS. Didn't help. I
|run out of ideas. Any suggestions are most welcome.
|yaro

yaro,

You say you updated the BIOS but did you disable the onboard VIA graphics?If not, after a reboot the board probably reverts to the onboard graphics.

hth
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I thought about it but I cannot find the integrated graphics in BIOS
to disable it.
Thanks
yaro
 
Where did you get the driver?- Hide quoted text -

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For the integrated graphics first from Gigabyte and then from VIA
website. The one for the new graphics card from the driver CD that
came with it.
yaro
 
Oh, and as to the BIOS settings what affect would it have to disable
the onboard graphics if the monitor is connected to another graphics
card anyway? Thanks
yaro
 
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