Minecraft Video Driver Problems?-Collection of common programming errors

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discoverer: Daniel S When trying to play Minecraft (downloaded or browser) I get the following message.. I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 running Windows 7 by the way ” Bad video card drivers! ———————– Minecraft was unable to start because it failed to find an accelerated OpenGL mode. This can usually be fixed by updating the video card drivers. — BEGIN ERROR REPORT 7fe0271 ——– Generated 14/03/12 17:39 Minecraft: Minecraft 1.2.3 OS: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1 Java: 1.6.0_31, Sun Microsystems Inc. VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Sun Microsystems Inc. LWJGL: 2.4.2 [failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)] org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoose. Method) at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.chooseP. at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWi. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Di. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.. at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.. at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceF. at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Sourc. at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) — END ERROR REPORT 24f7eb47 ———- “

All my drivers are upto date. How can I get passed this? Thanks

1. Either you don’t have graphics chip drivers installed, or your graphics chip and drivers don’t support OpenGL acceleration.