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Sooo I was playing Minecraft and then took a break to eat breakfast, so I closed it down. When I came back I tried to launch Minecraft and kept on getting this error message-


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 12/31/13 10:48 AM

-- System Details --
Details:
Minecraft Version: 1.5.2
Operating System: Windows XP (x86) version 5.1
Java Version: 1.7.0_45, Oracle Corporation
Java VM Version: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (mixed mode), Oracle Corporation
Memory: 414621880 bytes (395 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:235)
at avv.a(SourceFile:56)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:507)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
--- END ERROR REPORT 5f448e50 ----------


I don't know if this helps but my video card drivers are fully updated (I wikied how to check that) and I really want to play minecraft. Oh and is this helps, I just installed it last week.

Please Help Me!!!

What PC do you have? Can you link it or give the model name?

Softwhere- Windows XP
Computer- Optiplex 745
Manufacturer- Dell
Video Card Driver- Intel[R] Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family

This is what I know about my computer, I'm not really the technical person so I can't really tell you more. This alone took me about half an hour on Google and some other websites so if this helps, great, of not, I don't know. I want one of those really good gaming computers, but for now this is what I got.

Download Piriform Speccy:
http://www.piriform.com/speccy

Run it and post a screenshot here. It will tell you (and us) everything we need to know about your PC.

How would knowing about mechanics help you solve this problem?