Re: How To Reset Graphics Driver
Jahed Stetter
I'm suffering from the dreaded Radeon mouse cursor corruption. The problem is intermittent and can be "solved" by putting the computer to sleep or restarting it. I hope simply restarting the graphics drivers will remove the symptoms of the problem. This question would seem to indicate that restarting the graphics drivers is possible in Windows 7. My question is: how?
Inside the CRU zip file downloaded from the link above, you'll find two utilities named restart.exe and restart64.exe that can be used to restart the graphics drivers. Use restart64.exe if you're on a 64-bit version of Windows and the regular restart.exe otherwise.
If I leave my Win 7 machine on overnight at work, the resolution drops on one of the monitors. Altering the resolution doesn't work directly, but using the "Scan for hardware changes" seems to do the trick.
If you are experiencing problems such as screen flickering, black screen, or other graphical issues, you may need to reset your graphics card driver. This can be easily done on Windows 10 & 11, and there are various ways to do it.
The most straightforward way to reset the graphics card driver on Windows is by using the keyboard shortcut. For that, use the key combination Win + Ctrl + Shift + B. This key combination would instantly refresh your graphics driver on your Windows system. You will observe that your screen will be flashing for a second or two, and then all will be back to normal.
You should be aware that this activity is safe and won't interfere with any of the apps that are already operating on your device. Furthermore, you can perform this activity without using the Windows administrator account.
Device Manager is available on all Windows versions and provides a list of all the hardware components connected to your PC. Here, you can find the graphics card driver as well, which can be reset if needed.
If nothing else works, you can try uninstalling and reinstalling the graphics driver. Uninstalling the driver will remove it from your system completely, which should resolve any possible glitches or compatibility issues that might have been causing the display problems.
You don't want to be stuck in the middle of a project with display problems. The steps mentioned above should help you reset your graphics driver and fix any display issues that you may have been experiencing on your system.
Apart from that, make sure that you regularly update your graphics drivers and Windows version. Also, ensure that all your hardware components are in top-notch condition, and check for any loose connections before starting work on your PC.
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Do you want to know how to reset your graphics drivers? If your screen is freezing, crashing, flickering, displaying error messages, or displaying poor graphics quality, resetting your graphics drivers may resolve the issues. If the problems started occurring after you changed your graphics driver settings, you can restore your graphics drivers to their default settings. This wikiHow teaches you how to reset your graphics card drivers.
When graphics drivers crash in XP, but don't cause a blue screen, windows starts a fallback driver (I think it's 640x480 in 4-bit color). When that happens, is there any way to cause the original drivers to reload without having to restart the system? (I know Win7 does it for me automatically)
You can try going into device manager, select your video card, then under the action menu select "scan for hardware changes". That has worked for me for other devices needing plug and play to fire off so it might work for video cards.
Hi all. I have an Optiplex 3010 system with Windows 10 installed. (Came with 7 but I upgraded in the free upgrade period). It has integrated Intel Graphics, and I would like to reset all settings to Factory defaults as part of troubleshooting. But when I uninstall the software from Programs and features or directly from the device manager selecting the option to delete the driver, when I reinstall with the software from Dell, or letting Windows install automatically it installs with the settings that it previously had, it never resets. Is there a way to make a Brand new installation deleting automatically all previous settings? Like a Factory reset install? I even used DDU but same thing after reinstall. Thanks.
Thanks for the answer, but I already tried this before posting and didn't worked. For example, before, I had the system tray icon for the Intel Graphics closed, and after uninstall and reinstall, it would still be closed among other settings that would still be the same. I got it fixed my mistake, by unintalling the driver in Programs and Features, and then allowing Windows to install the version it considered. It seems to have all settings at default again.
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When running only the internal display under macOS, the display is unusable - multicoloured garbage and static, moving across the screen. Yet when I hook up an external display the problem disappears and both the internal display and the external one show macOS correctly.
When rebooting and choosing the boot menu with only the internal display, all is well again. When loading macOS, it's fine until about two thirds of the way through the progress bar, and then the static psychedelic freakouts happen again and you can't even see the login screen. Again, hooking up an external display makes both displays work again, until the external one is disconnected (HDMI or Thunderbolt, makes no difference)
When rebooting to Windows 10 Pro under Boot Camp, with just the internal display, everything is fine. If I load from a Gparted Live USB I have, also fine. If I boot a macOS installer, again fine, up until the point a clean install of macOS is performed. It was running Catalina, but I've also tried Big Sur and El Capitan (which is what it shipped with from new I believe). Booting to Recovery from any version of macOS, or Safe Boot, and no issues, perhaps because Metal GPU drivers aren't loading. Not sure.
Having done fairly extensive testing before reaching out here, this leads me to believe it is a software issue with macOS because the internal Retina display clearly works. I'm wondering if it's related to Display Scaling because I usually run it at the "Look like 1440x900" setting and for some reason when booting macOS, the Apple logo and progress bar are smaller as if the scaling is applied from boot, and that's causing a macOS-only problem.
Any advice please? I literally can't work out what the issue is. And I don't want to just use it in Windows 10; it's a Mac, I need it running macOS and it needs to work when not hooked up to another display to get around the issue.
I have the same MacBook model and the exact same issue. My current workaround is to use a display emulator (dummy hdmi plug) connected at all times but I am also interested in a better solution. In the iFixit forum (link below), I have been advised that the issue is likely from a faulty logic board, possibly the graphics MUX part. The reason it works in safe mode would be that the integrated GPU is bypassed (same for recovery mode and bootable usb I presume).
The computer suddenly freezes, the monitors, apart from the main one, turn off. Premie pro does not see the preview, the graphics card driver is resetting.
I have replaced the drivers with older ones and the error keeps showing up, which means the problem is with Premiere Pro.
Until a few weeks ago, there was no such thing.
The best way to reset your graphics driver in Windows 11 is by reinstalling it. If you have an AMD, Nvidia, or Intel graphics card, skip to the section below. However, if you're running a Windows 11 PC with Intel or AMD onboard graphics, you can let Windows do all the heavy lifting for you.
Step 3: Optional: If you want to make doubly sure that your drivers are completely removed, you can also run the third-party application, Display Driver Uninstaller, otherwise known as DDU. Find out how to download it and use it, on the official site.
Now that you've reset your graphics drivers in Windows 11, how about improving gaming performance? Make these in-game settings tweaks to make the most of what you've got, or consider overclocking your graphics card to find more performance.
If you've encountered a blue screen of death with a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION error, there can be a few different reasons why, but it's usually a driver issue. That means that while this is an annoying issue that can cause your system to keep rebooting, you can usually sort it by running a system fix scan, and Windows will take care of the problem for you.
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