Video card update problems for minecrat?-Collection of common programming errors

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discoverer: anonymous This is what minecraft said when i tried to start it. I hate it that i just spent 2 whole hours installing CRAP and the i get this message 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 8/26/11 4:32 PM Minecraft: Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 OS: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1 Java: 1.6.0_27, 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)

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  1. just troubleshoot and try installing again