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Question posted by mungazimungazi on October 17th, 2012

Video Card Driver Not Up To Date Or Not Enabled. How Do I Solve This Problem

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Answer #1: Posted by baklogic on October 17th, 2012 12:35 PM

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Click the start button

Right click compter

Click manage

click device manager

click dissplay adaptor

Then first try double click the device shewn, this will bring up properties, if it is disabled, click enable button- or, click update driver, and allow it to search for itself on-line. If that does not solve it, then go to

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/downloads.html

click the relevent box to move to the nesxt box until it shows the drivers on rhe page below. Choose the video driver by clicking on the driver and utility button -it shows for Vist 32. or, Vista 63- choose according to what you have installed (32/64 bit) and download the driver. If you have Windows 7 installed, it does not show a driver for windows 7 vga-video, so use the Vista one, and it usually works with Windoows 7- you may have to click on the help button, and type in compatability to install it in compatability mode if it does not install properly. As a last resort, if you cannot install it, then go to

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Click the button to allow nvidia to scan your laptop, and it will recommend the driver and help you with it.I said do this last, because laptops usually use the laptop manufactirers drivers for the least problems. However I often use the nvidia utilty when updating drivers/

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