uninstall microsoft basic display adapter

The graphics drivers from HP.com dint work and graphics card was still not detected.

GPU-Z AND CPU-Z were all showing Microsoft Basic Display Adapter as my display adaptor.

Device Manager showed display adapter 'working properly', but instead of 'AMD Radeon' as my adapter showed Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.

dxdiag showed display was working OK with all direct X Features enabled, BUT graphics adpter name was Microsoft Basic Display Adapter and only showed 256 MB graphics memory instead of the 2GB in my Radeon Graphics adapter.

This is how is solved it: I was using a HP Pavillion notebook with AMD Radeon GPU. Hopefully someone has an idea or solution to this, because frankly, this sucks! Tried the guide here: How to Fix NVIDIA Driver Update Installer Error - YouTube - this got me a little further but as soon as it tries to access my tv the installation dies (the time of a gfx installation where the screen flickers) Here's what I've done - besides googleing for the past 5 hours.:

Sometimes in the properties for the screen driver, the chiptype is listed as Nvidia, and sometimes it just says N/A. I seriously doubt that it's hardware fault - it worked perfectly before the update to win´8. When I try to install Nvidia drivers I get the 'installation cannot continue' message. My problem is that I'm stuck with a hopeless resolution because I can't install any display drivers.Īs the headline says : Windows can only find 'Microsoft basic display driver'.

Just bought Win8 from their web page and upgraded my win7.

Uninstall microsoft basic display adapter