Little by little, new computers are arriving that increase their hardware characteristics and with it - although it does not have to - some other unpleasant problem. If you have arrived here and you are reading this article, it is because you have run into a failure, whatever it is, although we will try to specify it a little more. "You are not using a display connected to an Nvidia GPU" Is it what appears on the screen?
If so, we will try to solve it during the following paragraphs of this article. This problem has been annoying the day to day of many users of these Nvidia GPUs and if you do not know what the issue is about, then it is normal that you despair. What may be happening to you, and this is where we enter to describe the problem, is that you skip the message that we have described above.
That is, "you are not using a display connected to an Nvidia GPU." In English it would be something like "Nvidia Display settings are not available" as the title, and a line after that indicates that "You are not currently using a display attached to an Nvidia GPU".
There are people who have also reported that when wanting to play video games with the Nvidia card, the described error jumps, since you enter the control panel and when you open it, it appears. What about this? which is actually working when you're running GPU-intensive games like Battlefield. And we understand that you don't want to use Intel's graphics memory at all since that way almost no game would run. We are going there to go deeper into the subject. There is still hope for your pc.
Solution: You are not using a display connected to an Nvidia gpu
The normal thing that happens in these cases is that laptops that have dedicated or integrated Intel graphics memory jump to it and ditch the Nvidia GPU to try to save power. This usually happens when you are not running programs or video games that require a lot of graphics or little, the computer jumps as needed.
We are going to give you an example: you want to play a video game like battlefield, and until now, you were at the desktop reading a txt, at the time you launched the video game, the Nvidia Optimus detects it and jumps to use the GPU from Nvidia.
If your laptop is low-performance, that is, little hardware on it to shoot video games, this will also happen to you. Generally, you will be using the integrated one. Of course, when you access the control panel of your Nvidia graphics card, you can change and activate your Nvidia graphics card and from there access its configuration. Of course, as long as you don't have the right drivers, no matter how hard you try, it won't let you make that change. Don't even try to update, it won't let you.
In fact, it is something very common among all users who detect this error of "you are not using a screen connected to a nvidia gpu", the first thing they do is update drivers, when in most cases, nor are they adequate. Now, after this brief explanation we proceed to tell you solutions to the Nvidia GPU error.
Solution to failure 1: Try plugging your screen or monitor into the Nvidia graphics card port
If this is your case and you have a tower computer, that is, a desktop computer, it may be a big failure to have the monitor connected to the wrong port. You should have it connected to the slot where the graphics card is, that is, the Nvidia GPU. In no case to the plate. As a general rule and to guide you a bit, the Nvidia graphics card or GPU should be plugged into the lower slots. In the image you see a red connector. You will find it there. If you have the screen connected at the top, it is badly connected.
Do not be scared when you get off to take a look at your pc, the normal thing is that you have no idea about it and you have a thousand cables connected. It just detects where the GPU or graphics card connection is and later connects the port there DVI or HDMI port of your display. Once you do this you should notice that it already works and does not give a GPU error. Just in case, we are going to review another method based on the drivers that we discussed before, since if you have everything connected well, it may be the fault of the drivers.
Solution to failure 2: Uninstall the drivers or drivers and try to reinstall the correct ones
As we told you in the first paragraphs, laptops and it is likely that yours use the Nvidia Optimus to improve performance. What this does is that the pc jumps from using the integrated memory from Intel to the Nvidia GPU when it is needed due to the high price of energy that it requires to open a video game or Photoshop itself, for example.
What happens is that this will only happen if the drivers or drivers installed are adequate and if not, I am afraid that you are going to force your laptop a lot and without knowing it, which will make certain programs not work for you.
Therefore, we will try to check if it is a driver problem or not, reinstalling and then reinstalling. Just follow these steps that we indicate here below:
To get started, press the Windows key and then the R key to open the run window. After this type devmgmt.msc and hit the enter key to open the device manager. Now go to a part where you will see "display adapters" and once you have it located, click with the right mouse button in the Nvidia Graphics drivers and select the unistall option, which should appear as "$ 0027Uninstall Device $ 0027"
Now right-click and repeat this process but on the Intel integrated card. Don't panic, your monitor resolution will drop drasticallyIt is normal, we have uninstalled the basic drivers of the integrated memory and you do not have those of the GPU either. Now restart the pc.
Now you have uninstalled the drivers, you have to install them. You should go to your manufacturer's website, ie: HP, Acer, Dell, Toshiba and others to find the drivers for your model. It may ask you for information about your laptop but you will find them all on the label that has the characteristics attached, as a rule on the back of it.
You already know that the drivers you need are the graphics, the integrated memory from Intel, in addition to those from Nvidia. When downloading, choose well since it depends on your operating system there will be one or the other.
Now and as a final step, you will have to go to the Nvidia website and download those drivers as well. It will offer you the option of «Perform a clean installation» or in English «perform a clean installation»Click there always. Now restart your pc for the changes to be made.
As a final tip so you don't have to go through all this again, we tell you not to automatically install Windows updates. In many cases, it will over-install the wrong drivers and the error that "You are not using a display connected to an Nvidia GPU."
We hope it has been helpful and you could solve the problem. See you in the next Movil Forum article.