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Wondered if it is possible to use DevCon to restart a display device as a stop-gap solution to artifacts left over from a graphics card malfunction?
In particular it leaves my cursor very un-user-friendly:
I found out the hardware ID of my display adapter through device manager (below)
[(windows key + pause break) -> device manager -> display adapters -> right click your display adapter -> properties -> details -> hardware ids.]
I tried the commands (opened with admin privileges) devcon restart "PCI\VEN_1002"
and devcon restart =display
but it always come back with No devices restarted.
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Is it even possible to restart the graphics card without a system reboot?
1Easier to start with: devcon find * pci* – Derek Ziemba – 2015-06-13T00:58:33.853
Excellent Idea, i will add that in. – Psycogeek – 2015-06-13T01:17:38.843
For some reason it still just says "No devices restarted" or "No devices disabled", etc. I used your brilliant example to make sure I got the correct ID of the graphics card and command prompt is open with administrator privileges. Any ideas? – Jonathan – 2013-08-28T18:40:58.300
@defaye Just tested the "restart" on my ATI/AMD card and it worked. A video that was open did not like that much, but it blanked out the monitor and made the connect sounds, and came back. Did you "status" the same thing, and have it read back running correctaly? It is not a very good option, because it has shrunk all my windows to "VGA" sizes,and shifted them off the 2nd, makeing a mess. – Psycogeek – 2013-08-30T14:04:54.833