From the left side panel, expand the Components entry and then select the Display entry. The following System Information dialog box will be displayed.Click on the Windows Start button, then type System Information into the search box, and then press the Enter key.However, the easiest way is the following:
There are several ways to identify the computer graphics display card. This article discusses how to update the graphics display driver. If you are experiencing issues with the display flickering or not displaying correctly, updating the graphics display driver will usually correct these issues. For the Windows operating system and installed software to communicate with the graphics card, a graphics driver acts as the intermediary to the graphics display card.Īs the Windows operating system gets updated and, computer BIOS updates are applied to a computer, the graphics display driver needs to be updated as well. We have found that updating the display driver may fix many problems that do not even seem related to the graphics card.For every single pixel on a computer screen, whether it is the text from Microsoft Word or a drawing detail from AutoCAD, that pixel is drawn by a graphics display card (sometimes referred to as a graphics card or graphics adapter). Anyway it did solve the crash problem, which was what we intended. As you can see it even changed the name of the graphics adapter. Selecting and running the download for the correct Windows version nicely installed a new Display driver (see the image above). On your own PC this will of course in most cases be a different type.Įntering " i5-2520M" in this Intel search option resulted in a list of drivers, including a few for the graphics card. This is needed as this integrated graphics card uses the processor for the graphics display, which makes the driver depend on the processor type. For our HP laptop this was an " Intel Code i5-2520M". That name can also be found in the Device Manager (see the image above), under Processors. The trick was to look for the name of the laptop's processor.
The download page on the Intel website also offers an option to "Search for a download" by entering a " Product name or keyword". The Windows Device manager shows the Display adapter and it's new driver.įinally, after seeking expert advise, we found what we needed to do:
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