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Dedicated GPU not recognized by Windows
A couple of days ago, I got a SMART hard disk error while my laptop booted. Yesterday, a repair man came down to my house to replace my HDD and installed Windows 10 Home using his own recovery media.
Today I booted up my laptop and downloaded most of the drivers without incident. However, for 'Display adapters', Windows is using Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 instead of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 which was preinstalled on my laptop's motherboard, and which i was using before my laptop faced the SMART hard disk error. Instead, all I am shown is 'Microsoft Basic Display Adapter' with the yellow triangle warning icon. (See Screenshot (1).png)
Under device status, I have the following status:
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This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)
The driver trying to start is not the same as the driver for the POSTed display adapter.
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When i attempt to update the driver, I get the message shown in Screenshot (2).png, which says that Windows found driver software for my device but encountered an error while trying to install it.
Could this be an issue with the Windows 10 recovery media that the repair guy used? Could I try and solve this problem by going into BIOS settings?
Any suggestions and assistance would be deeply appreciated.
Thank you.