Hello,
I recently encountered an error with my Intel GMA driver for mobile, which is quite unusual. I believe that happened after a game crash (somehow my whole computer got really slow for a couple of minutes after I force-rebooted the computer - out of options).
But since, it seems the driver can't recover from this error, as I can see two things happening :
- if I attempt to access my GMA configuration panel, it fails to respond, and if I kill the actual "tray" process, it comes back up properly, except it doesn't have a proper configuration - for instance, the listboxes with "refresh rate" are empty, same for resolution, ... somehow the driver couldn't load the presets.
- if I attempt to access the Windows Display Configuration, it fails with a "The system has started with the standard VGA driver", but still brings up the configuration panel with the options all messed up (-1, -1 screen resolution, ...).
I've been doing some screenshots to show you what happens in order to solve it more easily, however I fear it might not be as useful because my OS is in french
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This is the failing driver configuration panel.
This is the failing Windows Display Configuration.
This is the configuration dialog box.
For some reason Windows tells me the driver is incompatible with my system (Vista x64), but it worked fine before. My diagnostic is that the driver is somewhat corrupted and incorrectly reports to the system that it can't run due to some incompatibility, so Vista starts the standard VGA display driver.
But I don't want that to happen. I tried to reboot, I downloaded the latest drivers but it didn't work, and the computer is having problems since then. I considered uninstalling the driver, doing some cleaning up, then reinstalling it, but I'm freaked out I should fail and the computer not be usable again. But if there is no issue, I'll have to do it though.
What do you think ? Has anyone ever encountered such a problem with his GMA (or possibly other) driver ?
Thanks
I recently encountered an error with my Intel GMA driver for mobile, which is quite unusual. I believe that happened after a game crash (somehow my whole computer got really slow for a couple of minutes after I force-rebooted the computer - out of options).
But since, it seems the driver can't recover from this error, as I can see two things happening :
- if I attempt to access my GMA configuration panel, it fails to respond, and if I kill the actual "tray" process, it comes back up properly, except it doesn't have a proper configuration - for instance, the listboxes with "refresh rate" are empty, same for resolution, ... somehow the driver couldn't load the presets.
- if I attempt to access the Windows Display Configuration, it fails with a "The system has started with the standard VGA driver", but still brings up the configuration panel with the options all messed up (-1, -1 screen resolution, ...).
I've been doing some screenshots to show you what happens in order to solve it more easily, however I fear it might not be as useful because my OS is in french
.
This is the failing driver configuration panel.
This is the failing Windows Display Configuration.
This is the configuration dialog box.
For some reason Windows tells me the driver is incompatible with my system (Vista x64), but it worked fine before. My diagnostic is that the driver is somewhat corrupted and incorrectly reports to the system that it can't run due to some incompatibility, so Vista starts the standard VGA display driver.
But I don't want that to happen. I tried to reboot, I downloaded the latest drivers but it didn't work, and the computer is having problems since then. I considered uninstalling the driver, doing some cleaning up, then reinstalling it, but I'm freaked out I should fail and the computer not be usable again. But if there is no issue, I'll have to do it though.
What do you think ? Has anyone ever encountered such a problem with his GMA (or possibly other) driver ?
Thanks
), and now it works just fine, if not better.