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    Video Card Stopped Working?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by QuicKSwitcH, Jun 16, 2008.

  1. QuicKSwitcH

    QuicKSwitcH Notebook Guru

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    So today all of a sudden when i was googling some stuff for class my video crapped out on and me everywhere it would displayed distorted and out of color and sync. It looked like [​IMG]. I was using laptopvideo2go drivers for the card. However when i reinstall the dell laptop drivers from their website the video card works perfectly fine and doesnt create any problems. I have tried about 5 different lv2go drivers now and they all show up with the same problem.

    What is causing only the lv2go drivers only to stop working? The dell drivers are a VERY big performance drop than the lv2go drivers.... This is really starting to bug me...
     
    QuicKSwitcH, Jun 16, 2008
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  2. escalera

    escalera Notebook Guru

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    Can you be more specific which drivers you have used from laptopvideotogo and the steps you used to install it?
     
    escalera, Jun 16, 2008
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  3. QuicKSwitcH

    QuicKSwitcH Notebook Guru

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    ive used the 174.74, 175.12, 177.26, 169.xx i forget. I had the 174.74 originally running when the error happened.

    To install. I uninstall the old drivers, reboot, extract the lv2go drivers, dl the mod inf, put that in the extracted folder and hit replace. Than i have tried both the device manager find file and that way, and i have also just double clicked the setup.exe in the extracted driver folder....
     
    QuicKSwitcH, Jun 17, 2008
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  4. GalaxyWolf

    GalaxyWolf Notebook Consultant

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    have you tried using a driver-cleaner tool to remove 100% of any trace of your old drivers?

    occasionally uinstalling doesn't get rid of -all- of the bits of driver, and sometimes those remaining bits can cause a problem when you put new ones on.

    still, strange that the Dell ones would work fine but the LV2G ones are having a hissy fit.. :s
     
    GalaxyWolf, Jun 17, 2008
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  5. QuicKSwitcH

    QuicKSwitcH Notebook Guru

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    yea i used driver sweeper and i did get rid of everything that came up than reinstalled but the same thing happens...
     
    QuicKSwitcH, Jun 17, 2008
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