Acer 6920G Graphics Driver problems

Hiya guys. I seem to have a problem installing drivers for my 6920G. Whenever i install an official graphics driver be it from my recovery disk or the latest driver update (14/7), my screen goes blank. I can still hear windows running in the background like the alert sounds and such but the screen remains blank. Does anyone have the same problem?

I fixed it by installing some of the forceware drivers but i would really like to know why a brand new 6920G would have a problem with the official drivers.

 

Try the same drivers on a clean Windows installation, maybe your configuration got something screwed up. Anyway... it does come with anything installed, right? So, why trying to reinstall those pesky drivers?

 

acer has updated official drivers intended for 6920g in their FTP site.

new ver 175.61

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/not...ia_9PGS_9PGE2_9EGE_v7.15.11.7561_Vistax32.zip

 

Actually, i wanted to see if the newer graphics driver will get me a higher benchmark. Did anyone get the same problem?

 

i seem to have the same problem... tried to update to the newer drivers from 175.19 and i get a blank screen... i have to go to safe mode and roll back my drivers... any help?

 

www.laptopvideo2go.com

 

thats actually where the drivers came from.... also i was previously able to go back and forth between my present drivers and the ones that came preloaded... now i wanna update to the latest official drivers from acer and it doesnt work... i cant even install the ones that came preloaded

 

have you tried uninsntalling the other drivers first..

 

Speaking of upgrading drivers, I'm thinking of going up to 175.61 myself this weekend (went back to 174.51 with last factory default restore).
I've seen about three different methods to upgrade drivers, each more complicated than the last. Which is best? Does it really make a difference?
1. Use the setup.exe given, reboot.
2. Uninstall drivers, reboot, use setup.exe, reboot.
3. Uninstall drivers, reboot into Safe Mode, use DriverCleaner, reboot, install drivers, reboot.

 

i'd vote for #2 kinda.....,,,, boot into safe mode... uninstall drivers... reboot,, cancel windows attempts to load drivers... then run setup

 

Makes sense to me. If TF2 does the whole flicker-crash-recover-sloooow thing again, I'll perform the upgrade.

 

will uninstalling the drivers first still allow me to rollback to the previously used ones? ive been afraid to try it coz i might not be able to rollback.. which is the only way i get the correct working drivers again

 

i have no clue... never used driver roll back feature

 

hmmm... i really wanna get these divers to work so i can my blu-ray features back... im downloading the official release from acer hoping it'll work. the previous update was from laptopvideo2go... im still not so sure i wanna try uninstalling first because i might screw it up completely and not be able to rollback anymore

 

Well, that's why you should have a copy of the original drivers ready to install just in case.

 

thats the thing installing even the original drivers would cause the problem... but its fixed now... i went into safe mood.. uninstalled the old drivers... installed the new ones... rebooted... and it worked.. had to try it one or two times though...

 

glad you got it working....

 

so am i haha... oh and so people know, uninstalling drivers DOES take away the ability to rollback the driver... you could probably do a system restore if something goes wrong but im not sure

 

hi guys i have an acer 6920g vista pre. and i would like to know if i update the bios would i see any differnce?

 

Andrewboy, please don't bump old topics with an unrelated question. This thread is 10 months old!
Please post in the 6920 Owner's Lounge for help.