"Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" instead of GPU model and can't install drivers

[Raw Berserker]

Hello everyone. Happy New Year.

Well it's in the title. Around 3ish days ago, my computer starting running really badly when games were running. I've got an MSI GTX 770 which has had no complications so far. I tried to run Geforce Experience to update my drivers but it didn't work, and when I tried to update it, the update would fail. I then tried to install the drivers manually, but again the install failed. When I checked my devices, I saw that the name of the GPU changed to "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter". I checked it on CPUID and Speccy and they said the same. So then I Googled the issue and it told me to download DDU so I did all that and tried to update drivers again but it failed again. I tried downloading and installing around 10 legacy drivers and they didn't install either. I moved the GPU to another PCIe slot but same problem. I tried uninstalling my antivirus in case it was messing with the install but nothing. I even broke out the CD that comes with the GPU for the drivers, but even those didn't work.

I'm really stumped and I REALLY hope I don't need to buy another GPU since money isn't something I can throw away right now. Any and all help is requested and appreciated.

Thanks a bunch

 

[SkyNetRising]

List full hardware specs of your pc (including OS version) and
post screenshots from Device Manager and GPU-Z.

Is your monitor connected to graphics card or integrated gpu on motherboard?

 

[Raw Berserker]

List full hardware specs of your pc (including OS version) and
post screenshots from Device Manager and GPU-Z.

Is your monitor connected to graphics card or integrated gpu on motherboard?

My specs are:
Intel i5 4670K 3.4GHz (overclocked to 4.0 GHz)
Gigabyte Z97 Gaming 3 Motherboard
MSI GTX 770
G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel RAM
EVGA Supernova 800W Gold PSU
Crucial 240GB SSD
Windows 7 Home Premium

Also, yes the monitor is connected to the GPU and I turned off the iGPU from the BIOS

https://imgur.com/TYHgnRB

 

[SkyNetRising]

What error exactly are you getting, when you try to install geforce drivers?
Did you overclock the graphics card?

 

[Raw Berserker]

What error exactly are you getting, when you try to install geforce drivers?
Did you overclock the graphics card?

The image shows what comes up when it fails the install. It's pretty much the same when Geforce Experience fails too. https://imgur.com/a/BLPjk

I haven't overclocked the GPU, only the CPU.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Are you installing correct driver version for your OS (32bit or 64bit, whichever is the correct one)?
Did you try driver version from MSI support site? ( older version 355.82 )

Have you reinstalled windows 7 recently? Are all windows updates installed?

 

[Raw Berserker]

Are you installing correct driver version for your OS (32bit or 64bit, whichever is correct one)?
Did you try driver version from MSI support site? ( older version 355.82 )

Have you reinstalled windows 7 recently? Are all windows updates installed?

I'm installing the 64bit ones. I tried the 32bit just for the heck of it but didn't work as expected.

The MSI site version has the same result, failed.

And I haven't reinstalled Windows since the fresh installation, and I have all updates except a select few which I was recommended to remove when I had a previous problem.

 

[Calvin7]

This is the driver I found for that card.

Version 327.23 - WHQL
Release Date Thu Sep 19, 2013
Operating System Windows 7 64-bit
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Windows 8 64-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit
Language English (US)
File Size 188.59 MB
https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/66884

 

[SkyNetRising]

Have you tried manual forced install of drivers - from Device Manager and specifying drivers location?
You'd have to extract drivers from installation package for this (that can be done with winrar).

 

[Raw Berserker]

Have you tried manual forced install of drivers - from Device Manager and specifying drivers location?
You'd have to extract drivers from installation package for this (that can be done with winrar).

I haven't tried it. I will do it tomorrow and give you an update if it works or not.

 

[Raw Berserker]

Have you tried manual forced install of drivers - from Device Manager and specifying drivers location?
You'd have to extract drivers from installation package for this (that can be done with winrar).

OK I tried it but I've got this error saying "This operation requires an interactive window station"
Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/kLIuEYq

I'm not sure what that means exactly :/

Oh and the driver was the one on the CD, I didn't get the downloaded ones to show the same error.

 

[Raw Berserker]

I was lucky enough to have a friend give me a spare copy of Windows 10, and straight after the install everything was back to normal. Still have no idea what caused the issue in the first place

 

[zak.ali1999]

Hi, i also have a similar problem, i have a sony vaio laptop running windows 7 64 bit. i recently reinstalled the os due to a missing operating system problem. after reinstalling , my graphics card, nvidia geforce 8600 gt , doesnt not show in the device manager, and so i uninstalled the standard vga adapter that was present and rebooted, it logs in but after i am confronted with a black, unresponsive screen and and a cursor (which i can move) . thanks in advance.

 

[hmullie]

I was lucky enough to have a friend give me a spare copy of Windows 10, and straight after the install everything was back to normal. Still have no idea what caused the issue in the first place

 

[hmullie]

i did a reinstall twice didnt solve my issue