Why dose minecraft say my video driver is bad?-Collection of common programming errors

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discoverer: anonymous it says that my video card driver is bad but ive updated it, ive also re downloaded it on 2 different browsers and ive re downloaded java. here is the exact 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 5/29/12 8:55 PM Minecraft: Minecraft 1.2.5 OS: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1 Java: 1.7.0_04, Oracle Corporation VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation 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 ce44661a ———-

HELP ME PLEASE! Thanks

1. Try re-installing your video card.