I recently formatted a variety of computers and installed Windows 10 Pro from scratch. The Microsoft Windows Creation Tool was used to create a bootable USB memory stick.
Using Diskpart, I cleaned the drives, converted them from MBR to GPT file allocation systems and created a Primary Volume.
I love the fact that Windows 10 automatically looks up drivers for physical devices, but in this case, it failed to install the drivers for NVIDIA graphics cards. I had to do that manually. On one of the old motherboards, the screen went black as soon as Windows started up and plugging the screen into the on-board graphics had no effect. At first, I thought something had gone wrong with the installation, but then I remembered that we make a habit of disabling the on-board graphics to preclude applications from using anything but a dedicated graphics card. Sure enough, when I enabled the on-board graphics and started up, everything was fine. I installed the graphics driver manually and then the NVIDIA graphics card worked again.
When you next install windows on a pc from scratch:
- Check in BIOS that on-board graphics is enabled
- Plug screen into on-board graphics
- Install NVIDIA driver manually
- Plug screen into NVIDIA card when next booting up.
If you need help installing software on your PC, please contact Micrographics so we may be of assistance. We are also expert at providing clients a custom hardware solution that meets the requirements of software based on the types of projects taken on.
