Help me with my computer please?-Collection of common programming errors

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discoverer: anonymous I have been playing a computer game called minecraft for about 6-8 months. i usually play on the internet because this shows up every time i try and play from my computer 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 6/2/11 1:45 PM Minecraft: Minecraft Beta 1.6.6 OS: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1 Java: 1.6.0_24, 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 b153c4 ———-

yeah that came up… i dont know what to do so if you are good with computers or minecraft can you help me? thanks

  1. I know of mindcraft and heard great things from it, but back to your question one thing I would suggest is replacing your graphics card.