Drymartini

I had the same problem installing Vista with an old Microstar MS-6526GL P4 motherboard with integrated 845GL graphics & no AGP. All Vista gave me was the unaccelerated standard VGA BS. Not good. Checking Microstar's website, I found an old XP driver for the 845 and 865 chipsets. My line of thinking was that if this old driver was for both, maybe Vista's built in driver for the 865 was also compatible. Guess what - it works! 1. Click Start - Control Panel - System and Maintenance - Device Manager 2. When the DM opens, under display adapters, right-click the standard VGA and choose properties. 3. On the driver tab, click update driver 4. Click Browse my computer for driver software 5. Click let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer 6. Untick 'Show compatible hardware', then scroll down to Intel Corporation and on the right side, click 'Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller (Microsoft Corporation -XDDM)', then next and OK the old style warnings about the driver not being compatible etc. etc. etc. 7. Reboot It won't do Aero but the display is definitely accelerated, Vista is stable and the performance index goes up a lot. have fun! Drymartini