HELP!!! C90S trouble!!!

Ok... I don't know if i'm over reacting or not, but I need serious help with my Asus C90S.

This just happened 30 minutes ago after I restarted my computer. Everything was fine until I saw the windows login page where my display is only 800x600 with a 4bit color quality!! Everything seems to works perfectly except for the display. Under display properties, I got a pop up message saying...

"The currently selected graphics display driver can not be used. It was written for a previous version of windows, and is no longer compatible with this version of windows. The system has been started using the default VA driver."

I'm running XP Pro and havn't done anything with my graphics drivers for months. I haven't overclocked my GPU for months either. The device manager says that the hardware is working properly...but obviously it isn't since I can't change the res or color quality on the screen.

Can someone shed some light for me? I'm really hoping my GPU isn't burnt.
Please HELP!!!

 

It doesn't sound like you have a defective GPU but rather just a driver corruption.

Try reinstalling your graphics driver. If you can't do it in "normal mode" go into "safe mode" and try doing it from there.
If that doesn't work you can try "system restore" and see if that helps.

 

Yeah a smoked GPU would be a lot worse than that. Restart, if nothing changes, uninstall video driver, reinstall driver.

But above all remain calm and don't rush into anything.

Had you changed or updated anything with the system? Report back.

 

Try a system restore. Also you can use nbitior program to check the intergrity of your vga bios.

 

Phew are you guys jumpy for that sys restore.

I try to save that for last resorts just in case of bad restores.

 

Hey, thanks guys for all your help... +1 rep to all~!

The thing that did the trick for me was uninstalling the driver and reinstalling it. I have no idea why the driver went AWOL on me since I haven't messed with it for a while. Anyways, problem is solved thx to everyone!

 

Awesome! And thanks for the follow up. Too often we never hear what the result was and how is was obtained, or we do but months later. Let's us have a bit more possible fix references.

 

No problem... the key is actually uninstalling the video driver FIRST. It won't work if you just replace/update your current driver. I tried updating my driver a couple times but it didn't work, so I then tried uninstalling first and everything went smooth as silk.

 

Glad you fixed it. It sounds like a good idea for a somewhat harmless virus someone could make. Or a virus that disables a computers network adapter. You know something that can be fixed easily but annoys people. Might be a good idea for me to do to the guys in my next networking class...hmmm....

 

For future reference, one should always uninstall old GPU drivers before installing the new ones. Installing new things over old ones never worked well in Windows. Preferably also use something like DriverCleanerPro to clean up remnants of old drivers in-between installations.