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Question posted by ztunstall on August 19th, 2011

Display Adapter Issues

i have an xps 730 and when i install the drivers for the dual nvidia gforce graphics cards. i get a blue screen on startup. the pc only works with the standard vga driver. not sure what else to do.

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Answer #1: Posted by kcmjr on August 19th, 2011 4:04 PM

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Go over to nVidia and download an older version of the driver. That frequently fixes these issues.

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