A few months ago I had a disk crash and wound up having to rebuild my WinXP Professional box from the ground up. Some things turned out better when I did it myself, but there's another problem: EDGE won't run anymore. When I try, I get an error dialog saying, "OpenGL: SOFTWARE renderer!" which I guess means I have the wrong device driver in there now.
This machine was built for me the first time, and I've already grilled the guys who built it. They don't seem to know what I'm talking about. I haven't changed my hardware at all, save for my new hard disk. Do any of you guys know what the problem is? What device driver to get, and how to get it, or something?
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What's happening is that right now you are using the ones that Windows installs by default, which aren't really OpenGL drivers at all, and hence the message from EDGE. If your card is an ATI or Nvidia go to their website and get the latest drivers.
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The good news is that my video card is built-in, and my motherboard is a PM800-M2 (v1.0). The bad news is that I tried downloading the video driver from two different sites, and neither one will install.
The video card is supposed to be built into this motherboard. I followed the steps like you suggested, but no information like you're mentioning is revealed by that method.
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Update: I just managed to get a friend to bail me out. Since this might help somebody else, I'll share the solution here: it turns out that I needed to reinstall the motherboard's specific chipset drivers -- first -- as well as the video drivers. The chipset drivers -- IOW, not the defaults -- have to know about the "real" video drivers in the first place in order to handle them.
Thanks to everyone for your input.
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A few months ago I had a disk crash and wound up having to rebuild my WinXP Professional box from the ground up. Some things turned out better when I did it myself, but there's another problem: EDGE won't run anymore. When I try, I get an error dialog saying, "OpenGL: SOFTWARE renderer!" which I guess means I have the wrong device driver in there now.
This machine was built for me the first time, and I've already grilled the guys who built it. They don't seem to know what I'm talking about. I haven't changed my hardware at all, save for my new hard disk. Do any of you guys know what the problem is? What device driver to get, and how to get it, or something?
What's happening is that right now you are using the ones that Windows installs by default, which aren't really OpenGL drivers at all, and hence the message from EDGE. If your card is an ATI or Nvidia go to their website and get the latest drivers.
Good news and bad news.
The good news is that my video card is built-in, and my motherboard is a PM800-M2 (v1.0). The bad news is that I tried downloading the video driver from two different sites, and neither one will install.
More specifically: from here...
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=453&DetailName=Driver&MenuID=45&LanID=0
and from here:
http://driverscollection.com/?H=PM800-M2&By=ECS%20\(Elitegroup)
SOL in both cases. Also tried this site:
http://www.driverstock.com/EliteGroup-PM800-M2-driver-download/25-9-4202/index.html
In this case, however, the download wouldn't even work.
Any further suggestions? Please?
What video card is it?
To find out, right click on the desktop background, select the "Settings" tab, and click the "Advanced" button.
The video card is supposed to be built into this motherboard. I followed the steps like you suggested, but no information like you're mentioning is revealed by that method.
Update: I just managed to get a friend to bail me out. Since this might help somebody else, I'll share the solution here: it turns out that I needed to reinstall the motherboard's specific chipset drivers -- first -- as well as the video drivers. The chipset drivers -- IOW, not the defaults -- have to know about the "real" video drivers in the first place in order to handle them.
Thanks to everyone for your input.