How to Upgrade Drivers for a Video Card

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In this article you will learn how to update Video Card drivers with Windows XP

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Tips & Warnings:

You may find you have an "intergrated" card, this means the computer uses a part of your RAM for video processing, if this is the case you may need to search the card name + drivers on your favorite search engine. Or Right click on device manager and attempt to update drivers from properties.
Most Video Cards come with a disk, if you have recently purchased a new card you should insert the disk first and install the drivers.

Step1

Identify your card, you can usually do so by right clicking on your desktop and selecting properties then advanced, as seen in the video. Alternitively one may go to Device Manager via Start - Run - "devmgmt.msc" Once there, click the + next to Display adapters.

Step2

Device Manager Now that you have the name, your best bet is to go to the company website, may it be ATI, NVidia, Vodoo etc.

Step3

On the main page of the site scan for Downloads and/or Drivers

Step4

ATI's driver page Now you will be asked to identify your card. Select your Operating System, Card series (fancy name they put on the card such as Radeon,Geforce etc) and finally the number, then browse the results for the latest date and download.

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PeterN said

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on 8/12/2007 OK - this is again interesting - and I have been sent here through an E-mail from How To - because the answer to my problem is apparently here. It isn't!
The video clip on this article is too quick, too small to read and, therefore, unusable.
The instructions are as worthwhile. If I right-click on my desktop, and select properties, I DO NOT get an Advanced selection unless I get to either Appearance, or Settings, neither of which helps me find out what my Video Card is. Without knowledge of what my Video Card is, I cannot find a driver for it. So - this article does not assist me in any way - although maybe it helps others. I still don't know: (1) whether I have a video card, and (2) How I can find out what it is.
HELP, please, someone.
PeterN