Windows 7 won't recognize my graphics card or load the drivers that I have downloaded

same as above, laptop was working fine, then i decided to reinstall windows (which i'm now  massively regretting)after the reinstall windows won't recononise either of my cards.  using vista at the moment, might try installing window 7 to see if that fixes it

Hi All.

When you perform a clean install of windows only the necessary windows drivers are installed.  You need to go to the Mobo makers site and download and install all the necessary system/chipset drivers (ie Southbridge, VGA, etc.).  After this you should have no issues installing the manufacturers drivers for your other hardware.

Cheers.

Hi, I bought a new Radeon 5570 PCIE X16 graphics card and initially the bios and the operating system did not seem to find it.

I had been following instructions for installation from the grapics card manual.

Somehow it got found later and is configured properly now but it need the very latest driver.

What I learned.

Remove any ATI or Nvidia folders from everywhere in the computer. Usually found in the C: drive folder. Folder, ATI or Nvidia.

Download and install the very latest driver.

Disable the VGA driver in the Device Manager

Enable PCIE X16 card in the bios.

Install the downloaded driver and reboot, maybe twice, twice will be better.

I had taken all these steps but not until I downloaded the very latest driver was the graphics card found but then it was found immediately.

...another beginner

Hi there!

I have been reading this kind of information in a lot of forums and this simply doesm't work.

The problem is, the windows doesn't detect the card even if you install the correct drivers it wont load the CCC for ATI and you can't change resolution and refresh rate. You can't execute programs like games.

In my case, i had a problem with the pc and i uninstalled the drivers, and now i want to install them again and it doesn't work !

I have deleted all the folders of ATI and registry with PStools. There was no sign of ATI on the computer and i also disabled the agp thing on the display adapters.

I restarted the pc and again the driver was detected as a defaul agp driver and not as ATI.

My card is ATI HD6870   I downloaded my drivers from the official site and i also used an auto detector. It always says the correct information 6xxx series and it runs the setup and there is no single error but i dont see the control panel of the ATI card like before and it doesnt run when i start up the pc, i cant change resolution and i cant do nothing in this pc.

I hope that microsoft finds a good fix for this because we cant format the pc everytime this happens.

Click on option 2, and then follow instructions..

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