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Standard VGA Graphics adapter causing startup and resolution issues
Hi guys,
I'm having a very strange issue on my fathers computer. He has a Packard Bell imediaS3810 with W7. It has no graphics card, just the standard VGA.
It has worked fine for the last three years. However, last week it kept getting a blue screen related to the graphics adapter and would take ages to start up (it would hang at Starting Windows). It would work fine in safe mode, but in normal operation I noticed that in Device Manager the Graphics part has a yellow exclamation mark, even though it had the latest drivers.
I did a fresh reinstall of W7, and on the defauly VGA drivers, the computer works fine on 2006 standard gfx driver, but the resolution is not correct, it's very zoomed in. Even when I list all modes the correct resolution is not available.
When I update the driver to the 2013 one via Device Manager and restart, the computer hangs at "Starting Windows" again, but would launch fine with Safe Mode. I then have to roll back the driver to 2006 and deal with the zoomed in screen!
Would really appreciate some help, as this is something my dad can't resolve himself.
Thanks!