You have to be careful doing that though, if he doesn't have an iGPU then he might be borked. I'm not familiar with a situation like this since it's never happened to me, and I've always downloaded GPU drivers before actually installing a GPU :\
Download non beta nivida driver's (do not run when downloading save the file. If the download let's you get the file restart windows in safe mode and in safe mode uninstall all nivida driver's and that should clean ure system of the beta drivers. Then restart into normal windows install the new drivers etc.. Hope this helps as I am typing this on lunch.
Nah, it is just software like anything else. Remove it, Windows will reboot with minimal video drivers, and just reinstall the drivers you want to run.
But you need something to draw your desktop. If you're running a Xeon with no GPU you're not gonna see shit, there has to be an integrated graphics chip somewhere in the system. Mobos don't have them anymore, it's all in CPUs these days
Windows has limited drivers that work with all graphics cards to show your display before you install the software drivers for your hardware.
Im at college and I believe my driver CD the card came with is at home. Trying to avoid driving 2 hours to go home at the moment lol
Just download it straight from NVIDIA/ATI
you're missing the point. I understand there are software solutions. But I am trying to determine if he has a HARDWARE solution. If the GPU isn't working, you need a backup integrated graphics chip in order to draw your windows desktop. Most newer Intel and AMD CPUs have integrated graphics built in, so it's a non-issue. Motherboards used to have them, but no longer. If you are running a configuration without an integrated graphics chip, you need a dedicated PCIe graphics card or your desktop is useless. Obviously something is working to draw his desktop, but GPU-Z isn't reporting whether that's his nvidia graphics card or his iGPU if one exists. I assume the nvidia card, since his monitor would have to be plugged directly into that, but we could be looking at a pre-built with some fucktarded solution where they have shit routed in such a way that you can't plug into either the GPU or mobo (and by extension CPU+iGPU) directly
Yes I understand that if he has a hardware issue that is a totally different problem. You are not going to fix a hardware issue by doing anything besides messing with the hardware itself. Wiping the hardware from device manager so it forces Windows to recognize it as a newly installed device will either A) allow you to install the correct drivers or B) not boot with video which will literally confirm the issue is strictly hardware.
Yeah that's kind of what I was trying to do with your option B, in a roundabout way. It's always easier to check with GPU-Z than it is to remove something from device manager, delete all its registries in dxdiag etc. and start from there imo
I tried to. the installer fails in the middle of it
Whats the error code/message?
upload it to www.imgur.com and then paste the direct link it gives you here.
after you hit print screen, go into paint and hit paste.
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