I don't know what 3D card I have.

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benniboi69

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I have an HP Pavillion computer running Vista Home Basic 64bit and I just now swapped graphics cards with my dad, this graphics card is running through a PCI express slot I believe. And I boot my computer with it in and it defaults to the onboard graphics. And when I go to device manager it just says "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" under "Display Adapters" and my moniter is plugged into the graphics card. Not the onboard one. And it confuses me because I'm getting picture form the PCI graphics card but when I try to play World of Warcraft it says it can't find a suitable graphics card. And that makes me know that it's running with onboard because this card has played WoW before. Anyway I guess I just need to install drivers for it but.. I honestly don't know what kind of graphics card it is. I know it's an Nvidia GeForce. I think it's an 8500 but I'm not sure. I don't want to have to pay for a driver search tool like Driver Detective. Any ideas? Any help is appreciated thanks.
 

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Type system or msinfo32 into start/search and hit enter. Then see whether you can find it under hardware resources > IRQs
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
Good, but once you got the driver, do not forget to change the setting in the BIOS.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell
    CPU
    Q6600
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2207h
    Hard Drives
    2x250GB HDDs 1x60GB OCZ SSD 6 external disks 60 to 640GBs
    Other Info
    Also 1xHP desktop, 1xHP laptop, 1xGateway laptop
You do not have to change the bios settings from onboard to regular. The onboard video is either always on or on Auto to switch back and forth.

If your card is Nvidia go to www.nvidia.com and use the automatic driver search.
 
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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Powered By Asus Built By Me
    CPU
    AMD Athlon II 250 Regor 3.0GHz
    Motherboard
    AsusTek M3A76-CM
    Memory
    2x 2048MB DDR2 PC6400 OCZ High Performance Gold Edition @ 2.1v
    Graphics card(s)
    ECS Geforce GTS 250 512MB
    Sound Card
    Via Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer X203H Compaq FS740
    Screen Resolution
    Acer-1600x900 Compaq 1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200 RPM Western Digital Caviar 80 GB 7200 RPM
    PSU
    A-Power 680 Watt PSU
    Case
    Power Up Micro ATX Case
    Cooling
    1x 120mm Case Fan 1x 80mm Case Fan
    Mouse
    OCZ Equalizer 7 Button Laser Gaming Mouse
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Comfort Curve Ergonomic Keyboard
    Internet Speed
    6Mbps
    Other Info
    1x 1024 PNY Flash Drive Integrated In Windows ReadyBoost.
Go to NVIDIA web site and see if they have a driver check tool that automatically checks what card you have.
The reason you are getting a generic adapter ISN'T because of the onboard graphics, its off, its because you have no drivers installed for your card. Windows always gives you the basic driver to run any video-card at start-up.
Oh and if you are unsure that it is 8800 but think it is try installing the driver anyway. It will usually say not right one if its not. But all the drivers are supported by it. If you reboot and no pic or ir doen't show the card in DXDIAG (type that in at run).That will take you to a window that shows you your card and sound card and anything that certified for windows. If it doesn't work then boot and press f8 and boot into last known good configuration or uninstall drivers in safe mode and check another driver. But it should work
 

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