Why is my monitor connected to microsoft basic display driver?

[Emmawoods]

My display shows “Microsoft Basic Display Adapter” instead of my GPU name the colours/refresh feel off. Does that mean my graphics driver crashed or isn’t installed? How can I get the proper driver back (Intel/NVIDIA/AMD)? What steps should I try first?

 

[rebeccareed]

That is par for the course, means that windows may not have correctly recognized your gpu driver. It is reliant on the backup of the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. All you need is to visit the site of your GPU producer (Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD), download the newest driver and install it by hand. Reboot your PC after which it will restart again.

 

[Lisa]

Suffers in the same problem last month following a Windows update. It wiped my NVIDIA driver to the ground. I solved the problem by DDU (Display driver uninstaller) in safe mode and installed the latest driver in the NVIDIA site. Don’t use Windows update to install GPU drivers it is a random game.

 

[megamind]

Nah man, it is not the fault of Windows this time. Most likely, there was a misdemeanor committed when you were adding random software or updates. Happens a lot. You just need to clean install new GPU driver and in the next time you should make sure that windows does not automatically update drivers. It likes to destroy things that are working well.

 

[captainghost]

Haha, I had imagined that my GPU had been killed due to this. I turned out to have the HDMI cable in the motherboard rather than the graphics card. Then perhaps do a second confirmation of where your monitor is actually plugged and then start installing the drivers!

 

[jimmy]

One quick workaround: open up the Device Manager → Display adapters → simply right-click on Microsoft Basic Display Adapter and choose update driver and choose my computer, let me pick a assorted list, and you can choose your graphics card. In that case, missing can be fixed by installing the correct driver on the official site of the manufacturer. Takes 5 minutes tops.