- it will extract somewhere in the root directory of your harddrive, e.g.

C:\NVIDIA

- locate the file NV_DISP.INF and, if desired, make a copy of it

- go to Device Manager

- look under "Graphics adapter" (or something similar), double-click it if

necessary so that the "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" shows

- right-click on "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter"

- choose "Properties" and then go to the "Details" screen

- choose "Hardware-ID's" in the pull-down menu

- write down the hardware-ID for your Standard VGA Graphics Adapter exactly as it
shows on the screen, or - if possible - just print the screen

- it should be something like NVIDIA_DEV.05F1.01 or something similar

- next, open the file NV_DISP.INF in Notepad

- search for your graphics card in the NV_DISP.INF file using CTRL+F (e.g. GTX
280 : don't forget the space between GTX and 280)

- something like this will come up: NVIDIA_DEV.05E1.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280"

- in the hardware-ID you just wrote down or printed from the screen, there are four
characters behind NVIDIA_DEV. : those are the ones you are going to need (e.g.
05F1)

- replace the four characters in the NV_DISP.INF file with the ones you wrote down
or printed. For example: NVIDIA_DEV.05E1.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280" should
become NVIDIA_DEV.05F1.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280"

- if you're feeling creative, you can replace "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280" with
anything you think sounds good, e.g. "Tom's GTX 280"

- next, place the cursor on the very beginning of the NV_DISP.INF file and do a
CTRL+F search for all instances of 05E1

- there should be two locations in the NV_DISP.INF file where it says 05E1, and
both locations should be replaced with 05F1

- save the NV_DISP.INF file and leave NotePad

- go to Device Manager again, right-click on your Standard VGA Graphics Adapter and
select "Change driver" (or something similar -- I have another language installed
on my computer so I don't know the exact English term)

- click "search for the driver manually" (or something like that), then "have disk"

- point to the NV_DISP.INF file that you just manually changed

- click "Install" and ignore all warnings that come up

- you should now have a graphics card that actually works, instead of a Standard
VGA Graphics Adapter!