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I've gotten the 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 11/24/12 11:51 PM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.5
Operating System: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_09, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 425351880 bytes (405 MB) / 518979584 bytes (494 MB) up to 1037959168 bytes (989 MB)
JVM Flags: 2 total; -Xms512m -Xmx1024m
AABB Pool Size: 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) allocated, 0 (0 bytes; 0 MB) used
Suspicious classes: No suspicious classes found.
IntCache: cache: 0, tcache: 0, allocated: 0, tallocated: 0
LWJGL: 2.4.2
OpenGL: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Is Modded: Probably not. Jar signature remains and client brand is untouched.
Type: Client (map_client.txt)
Texture Pack: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null
Profiler Position: N/A (disabled)
Vec3 Pool Size: ~~ERROR~~ NullPointerException: null[failed to get system properties (java.lang.NullPointerException)]


org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelerated
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.nChoosePixelFormat(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.choosePixelFormat(WindowsPeerInfo.java:52)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(WindowsDisplay.java:185)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow(Display.java:311)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:856)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:232)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT e68fbe1f ----------

Yeah, that thing.

I want to make clear that I HAVE:

Tried to update to the latest drivers for my video card, I own a Radeon 9700/9500 Pro.

I did research on the Radeon 9700/9500 Pro saying that it supports 2.0 OpenGL

I used the OpenGL Viewer it said my Radeon 9700/9500 Pro card was using 1.1

I am assuming that my OpenGL drivers failed to install, so I tried reinstalling my drivers, this keeps happening.


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.


I use Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit.

Processor is: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz


Can someone help me?

Okay, I tried installing that.

Note: I have tried installing this before, but (even though the screen went black) I'm pretty sure my froze during installation, the music/sounds randomly stopped.

But I tried again (Since you told me to)

And it went black and the display came back fine...

The second time it went black it went black for a little longer... Then my display came back very very very glitchy.


I couldn't really see much but many colors, vertical rectangles with multi colored rectangles, all parallel, and blinkingish.

Hard to describe...

But now I am in Safe Mode with Networking trying to reinstall and if that doesn't work, uninstall.

Update.


I went to safe mode with networking, enabled something to let me uninstall all AMD/ATI drivers.

The glitch went away, thankfully.

Reinstalled my drivers, went back to install the link you sent me to do a "Test" to see if it was a hardware problem.

Turns out this time it installed perfect and I have no clue what that glitch was.

Since I installed the link, MineCraft works for me now.

Thank you very much!