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patricksmith

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    Graphics Card No Longer Appearing
    « on: September 05, 2010, 12:13:18 PM »
    Hello, I'm running a Dell Studio XPS 1640 notebook and running Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100608-0458)

    Thtough a friends recent irresponsibility, my computer became infected with a nasty little virus that corrupted my OS boot, deleted all restore points, and froze me out of even networking and command prompt options.

    After having to reinstall my OS, my computer no longer reads hardware such as my graphics card. Ive run a dxdiag and noticed that my computer doesn't even recognize it. This is consitant with my audio and networking hardware as well.

    My question then, is it in my best interest to ship my computer back to Dell for service or is there an at home fix that I can first try?

    SPECS from dxdiag
    Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T9550  @ 2.66GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
    Memory: 4090MB RAM
    Page File: 1474MB used, 6932MB available
    Windows Dir: C:\Windows
    DirectX Version: DirectX 11
    DX Setup Parameters: Not found
    DxDiag Version: 7.00.6002.18107 64bit Unicode

    Display Devices
    ---------------
            Card name:
         Manufacturer:
            Chip type:
             DAC type:
           Device Key: Enum\
       Display Memory: n/a
     Dedicated Memory: n/a
        Shared Memory: n/a
         Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (1Hz)
              Monitor:
          Driver Name:
       Driver Version:  ()
          DDI Version: unknown
       BGRA Supported: No
    Driver Attributes: Final Retail
     Driver Date/Size: , 0 bytes
          WHQL Logo'd: n/a
      WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
    Device Identifier: {D7B70EE0-4340-11CF-E025-7137AFC2CB35}
            Vendor ID: 0x0000
            Device ID: 0x0000
            SubSys ID: 0x00000000
          Revision ID: 0x0000
          Revision ID: 0x0000
          Video Accel:
     Deinterlace Caps: n/a
         DDraw Status: Not Available
           D3D Status: Not Available
           AGP Status: Not Available

    deargodpleasehelp

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    Re: Graphics Card No Longer Appearing
    « Reply #1 on: September 05, 2010, 12:16:28 PM »
    Did you install the  drivers for it??
     ???

    Is Windows Properly recognizing it?

    If it showed up like that, then obviously it wouldn't detect the monitor, therefor it probably wouldn't even display properly on the current monitor/device.

    Added to that, I don't know what else to say.

    I'm glad to be the first to reply, though. Hmmm. :/

    patricksmith

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      Re: Graphics Card No Longer Appearing
      « Reply #2 on: September 05, 2010, 12:18:07 PM »
      I used the Drivers and Utilities disk that came with it and installed my drivers but to no avail.

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      Re: Graphics Card No Longer Appearing
      « Reply #3 on: September 05, 2010, 12:36:05 PM »
      Sounds like they didn't supply the correct driver disk for your OS (WinVista-64bit).  Go to www.support.dell.com, enter your Service Tag & download all the drivers.

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      Re: Graphics Card No Longer Appearing
      « Reply #4 on: September 05, 2010, 01:30:51 PM »
      ...starting with chipset driver....