If you open the Device Manager after reinstalling Windows (in particular, the seventh version), you can encounter an entry named "Standard VGA Graphic Adapter". About what it is and how it is possible to get drivers for him, we want to tell today.
Drivers for Standard VGA Adapter
Typically, the equipment under consideration in the Device Manager is indicated by an error icon. In this case, the error icon works as a hint, since a standard VGA adapter is nothing like your video card for which the standard windows driver is installed.
This driver provides the minimum GPU functionality, but it is not enough to fully work the device. Consequently, you will need to download and install a full-fledged software for your adapter. The procedure consists of several steps.
Step 1: Video Card Definition
First of all, of course, you need to know which video card is installed in your PC or laptop. If it is already known to you, this step can be skipped, but if neither the manufacturer nor the GPU model is known, do not do without prior definition. You can get the necessary information in several ways, the most convenient are presented in the reference manual below.
Lesson: Video Card Definition
Having received the desired information, you can go directly to the search for the drivers for the device.
Step 2: Download Drivers
When the manufacturer and the video card model are accurately defined, the loading of the drivers will not be a difficult task.
- The most reliable method of obtaining software is loaded its latest version from the Official Wendor site. Actions Simple: Open the resource, find the support section, find the support page specifically on your GPU and download the driver from there for the desired operating system. If some problems arise, we recommend you to familiarize yourself with a more detailed example of the link below.
Lesson: Example of downloading drivers for video card
- Get drivers can also be using a special software. The largest manufacturers of chips for video cards - NVIDIA and AMD have been practiced by the release of special utilities, which have both the driver update functionality.
Lesson: Drivers Updating through GeForce Experience and AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition
If you want to find a driver for a laptop video card, you can use vendors' update applications, in particular ASUS Live Update or HP Support Assistant.
Read more: Receiving drivers via ASUS Live Update, HP Support Assistant
- Opportunities similar to official utilities duplicate third-party applications, also known as drivever. These solutions are more versatile, and in some cases are more functional than applications from vendors.
Read more: The best programs for installing drivers
For our today's task, DRIVERMAX is especially good: in the database of this application, you can find drivers even for video cards of the early 2000s.
Lesson: Updating drivers for video cards using Drivermax
- Sometimes it is impossible to determine the exact video card model: even the programs like AIDA64 continue to display it as a "standard VGA adapter". In this case, the equipment ID, a unique code, by which the system defines a connected device. This code is mostly determined correctly, so it can also be used to search for drivers.
Lesson: how to find driver ID drivers
Thanks to these actions, you can get full-fledged drivers for a graphics adapter that will make the device fully operational.
Solving some problems
As the sad experience shows, often attempts to find and install drivers for a standard graphics adapter VGA lead to one or another errors. Consider the most frequent of them.It is impossible to determine the video card
Sometimes special programs, and "Device Manager" cannot be correctly identified by the GPU. There may be several reasons for this, but the hardware failure is most likely. Do the following:
- Try to reconnect the video card.
Attention! The procedure must be performed when the computer is turned off!
Also, if possible, check it on another computer.
- Try to connect the map to another suitable connector, if there are several of your motherboard.
- Check the power supply of the GPU.
If the board, slots and food are obviously working, most likely the video card failed. It is also possible that you have a fake or device with a chip dump, which warmed.
Drivers are not installed
If the video card seems to be identified correctly, but the drivers are refused to be installed, as in the case of the first problem, the most likely option will be the output of the GPU or what is a fake adapter. If the problem concerns the impossibility of installation by means of a video card manufacturer, refer to the manuals further.
Read more:
Drivers are not installed through NVIDIA GeForce Experience
Causes and solving problems with the inability to install a video card driver
Conclusion
We provided information on what a standard graphic VGA adapter is and how to install the driver for it. As you can see, this device is nothing more than a video card for which the standard Windows driver is installed.