Windows 10: Can only use "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter" as my graphics driver

This just occurred to me: you could ask your dad if he wants to switch cards.
Especially if he insists there is nothing wrong with yours!

 

For the past couple of days I have been using my Dad's graphics card and it has not caused the issue once. I've decided to try a few other tests just to make sure that it isn't some other component.

Today I plugged both my Dad's PC and my own in and then used the PSU cables from my dad's power supply to plug into my graphics card whilst it was in my PC. This was just to make sure that it wasn't the PSU failing but the error still persisted even with my Dad's PC which is an 850w rather than my own 750w.

My Dad has a spare hard drive so he is going to wipe that and install Windows 10 on it at some point, so I can test using that to see if the error still happens. If it does then I will most likely just buy a new card, I may send mine back for a replacement but I am unsure.

 

I am currently looking at the RMA forum for Sapphire however it needs numbers that are found on the card itself so I won't be able to find these out till later

 

Tested out using another hard drive and with that the only working driver is the one that windows will install for you and if i try any AMD drivers then it will instantly start causing the crashes. I am going to try and send my graphics card back but to be honest I'm thinking that I will just need to get another graphics card

 

Good luck, in your case as this was said before, hope it is the card as it worked on Dad's PC. He did have Windows 10 i believe.

 

I'm looking at getting this graphics card as it is one my friend has and he gets insane FPS on games using it and it isn't too expensive for me to buy:

MSI NVIDIA GTX 980 Gaming Graphics Card (4GB, PCI Express, 256 Bit): Amazon.co.uk: Computers Accessories

It says it is "from MSI" but "sold and dispatched by Amazon", does this mean that It would have the 30 day return policy where If I got the same errors using this new card I could send it back?

If you guys could just take a look at it for me to make sure, my mum says that it should have the 30 day return but I just want to make absolute sure before I order it so a yes or no would be very helpful

 

I see now your going the other route to NVIDIA Chipset and it's drivers. This is a good card i have seen some different versions and brands of this card GTX 980 ti. Did not think were going to purchase another card to see if solves your issues not knowing if other card was bad or it's drivers were the issue. With newer NVIDIA cards and drivers seem to not have issues with Windows 10.
Read here Amazon like many other retailers have 30 day money back refund.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/css/retur...tml/ref=hy_f_4

 

I am in similar position. Only the microsoft basic graphics driver will work with my Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet with Intel HD Graphics. I am on the very latest Windows 10 Fast insider build. Prior to this build everything was fine. Since installing the latest build, the Intel hd graphics driver causes a BSOD upon next reboot. The only way to boot is into safe mode and unistall the Intel driver and apply the Microsoft basic driver. However the driver auto updates and installs the Intel driver again and the whole scenario starts again. I tried installing the latest intel driver but that still causes the same problem. Really need some help guys.

 

You can use Microsoft's Show or Hide Update tool to block the driver from installing. The tool can be downloaded here
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

If you would like to block ALL driver updates, just follow this procedure
How to prevent automatic device driver updates on Windows 10

 

So I've been using the new gtx 980 for the past week and it hasn't once caused any issues. The only thing I have noticed is that on some webpages black boxes will appear if i switch between tabs/windows but they will go away as soon as you scroll. Some people said that's just to do with latest drivers and that the next update will fix it so im sure its fine.

 

Good to know all is basically well. Check the browser settings for hardware acceleration. Also try different browsers.

 

Good to hear that the new card is functioning better than the old one.

Do you think the black boxes are video artifacts (like you get if a DVD or digital video loses signal) or does it look more like a feature of the browser that is not initializing?

 

I thought of Pixelation issues is this what you meant ?

 

The black boxes kind of look like artifacts however if i highlight the part of the page it is on, the boxes will disappear. It's like part of the page isn't being loaded in properly when i switch back to a page.

Also I know this is unrelated but for some reason one of my folder icons keeps changing, I have it set to a custom icon and randomly it will revert back to being the default folder icon and then sometimes when i click back to my desktop it will have changed back to my custom icon. Anyone have any ideas what that is about? As i said it doesn't matter as its unrelated

 

Black boxes small or large, pixelation would come with a freeze up at same time, similar to what you see with Digital TV.
Again which browser and all browsers do this ?
Not sure about icon change, but how did you go about changing the default for these icons ?