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Inspiron 1720 seeing/using wrong graphics card?
This laptop is a few years old now and when I bought it I upgraded to the GeForce 8600M GT graphics card.
I don't play many games but at one point I had Age of Conan installed which requires a ATI Radeon 9800/nVidia GeForce 6600
Recently I tried to install Lord of the Rings which requires a 64MB NVIDIA GeForce® 3 or ATI® Radeon® 8500 as the minimum card specs.
As far as I can tell the Lord of the Rings game should be a breeze to play by comparison but it won't even install.
My question is: Could my computer be using the on board graphics chip rather than the installed GeForce card? My DxDiag file mentions the chipset as being nvidia but otherwise doesn't mention a geforce card.
Card name: Standard VGA Graphics Adapter
Manufacturer: (Standard display types)
Chip type: NVIDIA
Also, I recently upgraded to Windows 7.
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November 2nd, 2010 23:00
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November 3rd, 2010 04:00
There is no onboard video - you do have an nVidia card. What's missing is the driver - you must install a driver for your video card.