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Graphic/Video card: Standard VGA graphic adapter?
Hi. I have a Dell Latitue D830 Laptop and now I believe it is dead.
Other Infos: T7100 duo core 1.8ghz / 1gb ram /2years old
and the graphic card tells me its "Standard VGA graphic Adapter"
Why is that? my computer is window 7 and it use to be windows XP
On XP , everything was very laggy that I can't watch any video. so I upgraded
to window 7 and it got a little better but still laggy. I learned about graphic cards
so I checked. It tells me this info about my graphic card::
Name: standard VGA Graphic Adapter
Manufacture: (Standard display type)
Chip type: Nvidia
Dac Type: 8bit
Approx. total memmory: N/A
and almost everything else says "Unknown"
How do I fix this? did my graphic card die?
AND YES I TRIED DRIVER UPDATE AND NVIDIA DISPLAY UPDATE.
Nothing worked.
-This computer use to play Crysis at Low/Medium Graphics at full speed-
Answer
Driver update is useless in your situation. It will just keep reinstalling that generic Standard VGA Graphics Adapter crap.
You need to find the right drivers for your Latitude yourself, download it, and install it.
According to Dell Support, your Latitude D830 may have one of three different graphics chips: An Intel GMA965 chip, or an nVidia Quadro NVS135m or an nVidia Quadro NVS140m. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/sy…
You need to find out which of those three graphics chip is in your particular Latitude D830.
Once you know which chip you have, you go to either Intel's website or nVidia's website and download the Windows 7 drivers for whichever chip you got.
Until you do that, your video performance will remain crappy.
Other Answer
No its not dead, your computer is just getting old. Most graphics in laptops are not dedicated so they steal from your ram instead of having thair own memory. It is a miracle that Crysis ran on that. try getting more ram if you can.
Also do the normal virus/spyware check and disk defrag.
If that doesnt work, Tou could try a OS reboot, which would make it as fast as it was when you got it, but that would erase all your memory.
