Problems with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE

[Aconfusedguy]

The entire problem is just strange. Everything was working perfectly until I did a fresh installation of Windows 7 Ultimate (it's the same OS I was using before).

When I go to the NVIDIA website, it says it can't detect any NVIDIA products. I eventually used third party software to find the driver for my video card (I was just getting "Standard VGA graphics adapter".) After that, it recognized the video card properly in the device manager. However, I cannot actually use it. Even if I go to a site like systemrequirenmentslab, it tells me I have 16MB of dedicated video memory (I should have 1GB).

I tried going to the NVIDIA website after restarting my computer, and it still couldn't detect my video card. So I tried using the device manager, and it said the driver was up to date. I eventually just manually installed the driver (downloaded straight from NVIDIA), and I'm still getting the same "16MB of dedicated video memory" problem.

Do you think it's just fried?

 

[dannylivesforher]

Do yo think the PCIE is selected as the default Display Adapter?Well,it must be some driver issue,if you do. Did you try to install the older drivers that are suitable with the Win 7? Like..the one that came with your Motherboard DVD?
Well,I don't totally believe your GPU is dead,since you wouldn't have got the display on the screen if it were...

 

[Aconfusedguy]

Well, the problem seems to have resolved itself. I don't know how or why, but everything is working now. The only thing I did was update DirectX, and something tells me that shouldn't have fixed the problem.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

 

[dannylivesforher]

Okay...Good to know that..But I wonder how it got fixed by Directx installation though....

 

[Aconfusedguy]

I don't think it did. I think I must have done something else. Perhaps another driver was updated and I didn't notice. That third party software I mentioned is kind of unpredictable and unreliable at times.

 

[dannylivesforher]

Yeah..Never trust them...You could always download the latest drivers from Nvidia....That's the safest way of doing it..