Dell/intel drivers

[rssfed23]

Hi there,

Does any one know how i can get my vedeo card to get a higher resoloution that 640x480 (probally needs vista drivers). THe computer is a dell dimension 2400 and the device is a Intel 845G/845GL/845GE/845GV graphics chip (onboard)

Many thanks in advance,

Rob

[Biohead]

I'm using a 915GM in a Toshiba Equium M40x-189.

All I did was download the drivers from the toshiba website and put them on pendrive, then installed Vista - using a standard VGA adaptor - then ran the exe from Toshiba/Intel.

Have a look on the Dell website for drivers. And I had to manually enable glass in the registry, but apart fro that it works fine.

[rssfed23]

The drivers on the website are exe files, and wont work with Vista (a message comes up saying so).

When i try to manually update the drivers using the drivers that the exe extracted, i just get installing driver software for ages, until it gos away and nothing has changed.

[fizban2]

many older video cards and onboard cards do not have drivers that will work with Vista, you just may be out of luck, if you can try and get a AGP card to try, you will probably have better luck getting drivers for a AGP video card then the onboard video card, Nvidia has decent drivers for vista, ATI to for the most part,

[rssfed23]

Thats the problem: no AGP port, the computer is about 1.5 years old so no pcie either.

I suppose i could just get a new motherboard (im thinking about replaceing myne anyway).

Thanks for all your help (much more usefull than the dell forums: all they said were it's on the cd),

Rob

[Biohead]

Have you tried extracting the exe using latest release of winrar and then pointing vista there?

[Mr Snrub]

The drivers on the website are exe files, and wont work with Vista (a message comes up saying so).

When i try to manually update the drivers using the drivers that the exe extracted, i just get installing driver software for ages, until it gos away and nothing has changed.

I found exactly the same thing trying to install the ATI Mobility drivers on my Dell Latitude D600 - it loops the setup twice and fails to put the new driver on.

However, I went into Device Manager and selected "update driver" on the Standard VGA Adapter and pointed to the folder where I had the installation files and it copied them in just fine.