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graphic card not detected after dust cleaning
Hi
I've been trying to figure this out for the past day searching for any answers but I've usually found people having this problem on laptops.
I have a desktop computer from Packard Bell, it has been working fine up until yesterday morning when I decided to clean it of dust to prepare it for the warm months to come, to be able to clean it easier I removed the graphic card along with the hard drives and ram, but after I put everything back and started up the computer windows no longer detected my card but instead says "Standard VGA Graphics adapter" now i'm not sure if my monitor was detected differently before but now it says Generic non-PnP Monitor and the max resolution being 1600x1200 as opposed to 1920x1280 before.
The card is obviously working as I have no integrated graphics and my monitor is connected to the card and I'm typing this from the same computer but when I try to reinstall the drivers it says it cannot find compatible graphics hardware, I made sure I downloaded the right ones.
Other things that I have tried:
-in BIOS even though there was only choice between auto or PCIE for Primary Display Adapter I set it to PCIE.
-Checked if perhaps card wasn't properly inserted but everything seems fine.
-Left computer completely unplugged from power source over night, no changes
-have not tried installing drivers in safe mode, am going to try after this is posted.
I am including a screenshot of HWinfo which seems to be the only program that detects my graphic card correctly (other one I tried was Everest, dxdiag also detects it as VGA)
Please tell me if I missed any important info that might help solve this problem, in worst case scenario I'll have to send comp in for repairs but since it was bought in Germany it would take up to 2 months as a relative of mine works up there and comes back monthly and he is currently up there for the next month till he comes back, also my final attempt before sending it for repairs would be reinstalling windows if that would even help.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT:
Safe mode didn't help much, same issues when trying to install drivers but i noticed the monitor shows up as (Default Monitor) and the graphic driver is VGA save which seemed to have some conflicts under resources tab:
Input/Output Range 03B0 - 03BB used by:
Intel(R) processor PCI Express Root Port 1 - D138
Input/Output Range 03C0 - 03DF used by:
Intel(R) processor PCI Express Root Port 1 - D138
Memory Range 00000000000A0000 - 00000000000BFFFF used by:
Intel(R) processor PCI Express Root Port 1 - D138
That is all the differences I could find.
Last edited by Ominus; 18 Mar 2011 at 11:25. Reason: more information