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Hi guys, sorry for another post about this. I've browsed some older posts with people having the same problem, but mine is slightly different. I used to boot in Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit and run minecraft halfway decent, but it was buggy due to the linux platform. So I recently installed windows 7 32 bit and attempted to run minecraft but it gave me this specific error. Now, I can't run minecraft at all.



Bad video card drivers!
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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 12/26/12 3:40 AM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.4.6
Operating System: Windows 7 (x86) version 6.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_10, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 428332320 bytes (408 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: Default
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 asq.a(SourceFile:56)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:515)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT d1d6f8ce ----------


I attempted manually updating my drivers, and windows keeps telling me I am fully up to date. It's a bit of an older graphics card, but it had worked for minecraft on an old windows vista install I had and Ubuntu.

Here's the details on my graphics card:

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
Manufacturer: NVIDIA

Driver File Version: 8.15.0011.8593 (English)
Driver Version: 8.15.11.8593
Driver Model: WDDM 1.0
Driver Date/Size: 7/13/2009 20:16:11, 7592960 bytes

Once again I know this is a common post, but I've browsed several older threads and I could not find anything that worked, and I don't think it is a hardware error due to the fact I was using my graphics card yesterday for minecraft on linux and it worked. So I'm a little lost.