Will I need to install drivers if my computer is old?
Will I need to install drivers if my computer is old?
Thanks for the last reply. Yes, I took out the graphics card and put in a VGA driver. Now it runs with several screens, but the card itself doesn't work anymore, even though it worked before. But oh well, I don't need it anymore. Three experts told me that too, so I'm listening now. Thanks everyone. It's working for now.
The Intel HD Graphics 4600 chip inside my i7-4770K computer is using a driver from Intel. The date of the driver file is September 29, 2016, and the version number is 20.19.15.4531. The operating system I am using is Windows 10 Pro. When I try to put Windows 10 on an old computer, I always turn off the screen first because I want to use my personal login instead of a company account. None of my PCs are set up for Microsoft accounts. Once Windows finishes installing, I go online and then the screen goes dark for a few seconds before coming back with a higher resolution desktop. After that, it automatically checks if the video driver is up to date from the basic version. I check for updates in Windows and let it download and restart. Then I check again and it keeps trying. Next I look at Device Manager and see if there are any yellow warning signs. Right now on old Xeon server boards, it's easier to just use what Windows Update offers instead of searching online for weird drivers that might not work. On newer cards, I decide whether to run the motherboard driver updates or leave it alone depending on how things look in the system. If Windows Update can't find a driver, then I go ahead and download the official package from the manufacturer. If my 10GbE network card drops frames, I update its driver. Otherwise, I just leave it be. Sometimes certain driver updates cause more problems than they are worth if they have bugs. Next I open the User Accounts menu. The name of the account you are using should show up right there. On my computer it says "Local Account. Administrator. Password protected." This means the account I'm logged in as is an Administrator level. You can ignore the password part for me, but your details might be different. Another thing to check in the BIOS is how priority is set for the GPU sometimes. It could be set to Auto, or it could be set to iGPU or PCIe (the actual names may vary). If you get this wrong and the screen goes black when the BIOS switches output to a port with no monitor attached, that's bad. I had one system where the screen went black during POST on a plasma TV connected via HDMI, but the same TV worked fine when I used the 15-way VGA input. I assume both your monitors were hooked up to the R9 270X GPU? People have been having trouble with Windows 10 and those R9 270 cards. There are links here that talk about issues on AMD support forums for Radeon R9-270s on Win 10, and another link to an AMD support page listing compatibility for the R9 series. Many Radeon HD and R9 cards work with Windows 10, especially if you install the latest drivers. Some users might feel slow in modern apps because these cards are old. I stick to GT 710, 720, or 730 chips or more recent ones for Windows 10. If a GPU is too old to fully support Windows 10, I leave it running as a Microsoft Basic Adapter at a low resolution like 1024x768. Your R9 270 might be way too old for this situation.