Older Intel video cards
- It appears there is no driver for the Intel 82845G integrated video card. I got it working in Vista by using the driver for the 82852/82855 GM/GME card but that doesn't exist in 7 either. Any alternatives or is there a driver for this out there somewhere?
Answers
- there is little support for the older chipsets currently. We can only wait, hope and try to bypass the drivers in as creative a way as possible for now.
- Marked As Answer byAlex TMVP, ModeratorThursday, January 22, 2009 6:16 AM
- People are currently trying to find ways of getting these chipsets working , but from the release notes.
Video drivers
Systems which use XDDM drivers may completely stop responding in certain scenarios. The computer will not respond to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and you will have to cycle the power to restart the computer, with the attendant risk of loss of unsaved data.
Some activities which have been demonstrated to trigger this issue include, but are not limited to:
- Using Winsat.exe or using the Rate and improve your computer’s performance tool.
- Changing multi-monitor configurations
- DVD or other video playback
To avoid this, do not use XDDM drivers, but find an appropriate WDDM driver instead. If your video chipset does not have a WDDM driver (such as the Intel 915), use a VGA driver or an GPU that supports WDDM drivers.
If this issue occurs at setup, either avoid unattended setup or uninstall the XDDM driver and use a VGA driver until setup is complete.
there are sort of work arounds to get some functionality, but nothing has been worked out to give full functionality yet.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/6622f03e-5115-4a79-b404-947cdfce4cc6
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/d9bf3d62-12bf-40a8-8c47-56397b1102ab
I believe theres more threads, but thats 2 of them.- Marked As Answer byAlex TMVP, ModeratorThursday, January 22, 2009 6:16 AM
- Using Winsat.exe or using the Rate and improve your computer’s performance tool.
- I have resolved the issue. I found that the 82852 driver would work in Vista so I used Drivermax to export the driver and then installed that driver in Windows 7. It works the way it should. I had to go to the device in device manager and update the driver from there. Other approaches either didn't work or work or Windows would tell me the best driver was already installed, even though the "best driver" was the generic svga driver.
- Marked As Answer byAlex TMVP, ModeratorWednesday, January 28, 2009 3:11 AM
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- there is little support for the older chipsets currently. We can only wait, hope and try to bypass the drivers in as creative a way as possible for now.
- Marked As Answer byAlex TMVP, ModeratorThursday, January 22, 2009 6:16 AM
- People are currently trying to find ways of getting these chipsets working , but from the release notes.
Video drivers
Systems which use XDDM drivers may completely stop responding in certain scenarios. The computer will not respond to CTRL+ALT+DELETE and you will have to cycle the power to restart the computer, with the attendant risk of loss of unsaved data.
Some activities which have been demonstrated to trigger this issue include, but are not limited to:
- Using Winsat.exe or using the Rate and improve your computer’s performance tool.
- Changing multi-monitor configurations
- DVD or other video playback
To avoid this, do not use XDDM drivers, but find an appropriate WDDM driver instead. If your video chipset does not have a WDDM driver (such as the Intel 915), use a VGA driver or an GPU that supports WDDM drivers.
If this issue occurs at setup, either avoid unattended setup or uninstall the XDDM driver and use a VGA driver until setup is complete.
there are sort of work arounds to get some functionality, but nothing has been worked out to give full functionality yet.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/6622f03e-5115-4a79-b404-947cdfce4cc6
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/d9bf3d62-12bf-40a8-8c47-56397b1102ab
I believe theres more threads, but thats 2 of them.- Marked As Answer byAlex TMVP, ModeratorThursday, January 22, 2009 6:16 AM
- Using Winsat.exe or using the Rate and improve your computer’s performance tool.
- I have resolved the issue. I found that the 82852 driver would work in Vista so I used Drivermax to export the driver and then installed that driver in Windows 7. It works the way it should. I had to go to the device in device manager and update the driver from there. Other approaches either didn't work or work or Windows would tell me the best driver was already installed, even though the "best driver" was the generic svga driver.
- Marked As Answer byAlex TMVP, ModeratorWednesday, January 28, 2009 3:11 AM
- Could you upload the exported 82852 driver?
- I am sorry, I haven't been checking this email address lately. I have created a link to the files on the web. They are found here: http://www.sover.net/~fiskreed/Intelvideo/ . You should be able to right click on the file, Intel 82852-82845.zip, and download it.
- Proposed As Answer bykmroczek Sunday, May 10, 2009 12:32 AM
- Hi, have tried the driver on an Acer Travelmate: unfortuately this resulted in the same failure as any other Intel driver I tried: After installing the driver and restarting the computer Windows installs in addition its standard VGA driver and the installed Intel driver indicates an error message like " This device has been stopped due to an error (Code 43)".
I hope Intel will revise its policy concerning older chipsets! - This driver is from a Dell Dimension 2350 computer and works perfectly on that. Unfortunately, other manufacturers are at liberty to modify the embedded devices to meet their needs, which can lead to incompatiblities. The way I produced this driver is by using drivermax to pull the video drivers from an XP install on that Dell computer and then use those files to install on Windows 7 on the same machine.
- I have to make a correction, I forgot that I had gotten the driver from Vista and not XP. Just to make it more interesting, I found that there was no driver for the actual card in my machine, an Intel 82845G, but I found that the driver for the Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME would work with that card. That is the driver I grabbed with Drivermax from Vista to use in Windows 7. Presently I have Vista, XP and Windows 7 all mutli-booting on the same machine, which makes it very easy to play with drivers and other things.
- This solved the issue on my Gateway E4100 with Intel 845G (82845g) graphics chip set on Windows 7 RC1 - upon selection, the PC did crash dump and then reboot but is working fine now. Perhaps the crash dump was more a function of instability with my prior graphics driver update attempts (even using some WinXP.. still not higher resolution, and limited color mix)
These drivers are working fine on my old gear now. Thanks! - Thanks!
