Uhh..... No graphics card?!

Ayla · Post by **Ayla** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:53 am

Alright, this... I don't get...

Just a few days ago, my computer was working absolutely fine. Illa was fast, smooth, great..

Then, just the other day, my computer suffered the horrid "BSOD". Disaster, yes. Anyway, being as the hard drive was completely corrupted, I had to clear it and reinstall Windows XP.

Now, however, when I go to see what graphics card I have, there is.... nothing.

Completely blank from the looks of it. Any suggestions on what to do? Without it, Illarion is so slow, there's absolutely no point in playing...

Help is begged for!

Lance Thunnigan · Post by **Lance Thunnigan** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:05 am

You're fucked.
Rofflergags.

Juliana D'cheyne · Post by **Juliana D'cheyne** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:43 am

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

If really hard drive failure there is not much can be done with the computer I don't think, but you can try to test it.

Ayla · Post by **Ayla** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:04 am

Ehh...

First off.. *Didn't think that this was more a personal comp problem, not worth bothering Illa staff on*

Second off.. *Loves PO Oger for helping her out*

Yeah, thanks to people smarter than I, I was able to figure it out and get Illa back up and running. Woo!

Algoran · Post by **Algoran** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:23 am

I know it's too late but my computer had an "unmountable boot disk" failure a few days ago and nothing I did made it go away. All files corrupted and no tools were able to sort it, not even Chkdsk. In the end I had to reformat the disk and reinstall XP. I had major problems installing the Graphics card until I remembered to reinstal mother board drivers first. Once I'd installed those drivers the graphics card drivers installed without problem.

My problem was slightly different to yours as my graphics card showed up in the hardware profile as what it was, but whenever I tried to play games I got errors saying I didn't have a 3d card or other such messages.

Arameh · Post by **Arameh** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:34 am

I think you just need to reinstall your graphic card drivers.

abcfantasy · Post by **abcfantasy** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:42 am

Step 1: Go to the kitchen

Step 2: Grab a chair

Step 3: Go in front of your PC

Step 4: Raise the chair high up

Step 5: Bash the PC as hard as you can.

Step 6: Repeat Step 5 until necessary.

Pellandria · Post by **Pellandria** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:45 am

unmountable boot disk normaly goes away with chdsk - r or how the repairing command is.

Algoran · Post by **Algoran** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:56 am

Normally Chkdsk /r would do it, but not this time. Something major had happened and nothing I did made it go away. Still, a good excuse for a late spring clean