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Video card not being detected?
Hey everybody, i have an issue with my video card.
First off, i have a Packard Bell EN TK-81 laptop with AMD Radeon HD 7400M graphics card
So long story short my file system got corrupted, so i formatted my hdd reinstalled windows 7 64 bit. Now boot takes about 15 minutes to be done, and while im IN windows it's pretty slow. (problem is not the speed actually, its considerably okay, but that things freeze quite often)
Question no.1: can the video card cause this, or is it my hdd? (as i mentioned i had to reinstall windows cause of my hdd)
That being said... After i got into windows, i wanted to install necessary drivers. The driver for my motherboard is installed i think, because when i click on my MB in the device manager, and go to 'install updates' it says that drivers are up to date and installed.
Question no.2: is it possible that my chipset driver isnt actually installed, or it isnt installed correctly, thats why im getting all this trouble?
Next thing i wanted to do is to obviously install the video card drivers. My video card didnt show up in the device manager, i thought its normal since i didnt install drivers yet.
So i downloaded not the newest driver from amd.com, but that one which is listed as a necessary driver for this laptop on packardbell.com (it includes driver for the southbridge, for usb drives, and for some other stuff). Everything installed correctly, except for the video card driver.
(after the isntallation it says that a problem has occured, and i can view the log. Once i do that it says that it failed installing my vcard driver).
So im sitting here now, and i honestly dont know what i could do at this point. I didnt really found anything usefull on the internet, and one thing i can say for sure, that it IS my system not detecting the video card, because it sure didnt get ruined or something.
Dan
Edit: i forgot to mention, that since it doesnt see my video card, it is using this 'Standard VGA Graphics Adapter' with 16 mb vram. People in forums recommended to uninstall that thing, and then try to install an amd driver. I've done this and it doesnt work. Now device manager doesnt show anything related to video card drivers. Whats going on. Its driving me crazy.