No detection of Graphics Card, can't update driver

Chocolate

United States2350 Posts

June 16 2013 03:14 GMT

So I noticed that the performance of my graphics card was not as good as it could be, so I decided there was a good chance that the driver was too old. I uninstalled the old driver, which apparently was a big mistake, because then device manager started reading my card as only a vga adapter. nVidia's driver update service requires it to be able to read what your card model is, and it wasn't working before deleting my card and it certainly isn't working now. I already tried taking the card out and putting it back in. By the way, my card is a GTX 550 Ti and is about 1 year old, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, asus motherboard, amd CPU...

To summarize, I can't update my graphics card driver because my computer can't tell that it's there. Card is GTX 550 Ti

I guess I'm wondering if there is a way to fix this that will either allow my computer to detect the card or allow me to bypass nVidia's detection to get the card working. Many thanks, and I'm sorry if I'm making a dumb mistake. I'm a little hardware-illiterate.

Oh yeah, if you couldn't tell my computer has a display, it just is very poor.

Marcus420

Canada1923 Posts

June 16 2013 03:25 GMT

try http://www.guru3d.com/files_get/guru3d_driver_sweeper_(no_installer),7.html

Chocolate

United States2350 Posts

June 16 2013 03:28 GMT

I already swept my nvidia graphics drivers after I uninstalled.

Chocolate

United States2350 Posts

June 16 2013 03:44 GMT

HAHA, SUCCESS! I installed some amd driver instead of the nvidia one and it works! I don't know if I'm back to where I was when I started or if I have the right drivers now, but at least I'm not worried about irreperably damaging my GPU. Whew.

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