Help getting display to work on HP ze4325us Laptop

[baarod]

i went to ati website and they had the basic windows 7 drivers listed for the igp 320m, id try installing these ATI Catalyst™ Beta Driver Package for Windows 7 7 Beta - 32-Bit Edition

None of those drivers listed are remotely a Radeon Mobility. It's an ancient IGP!

 

[TripOG]

cant hurt to try anyway

 

[baarod]

Yes, these shots of the display are immediately upon uncabbing and successfully installing those drivers from baarod (THANK YOU!). I was so excited when it successfully installed! (Note: The other two items w/o drivers you see in the display - modem and audio - just haven't been installed yet, there's no problems there that I know of, just stuck on the display).

Make sure you have the latest BIOS KAM1.60 ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp30501-31000/sp30514.exe

Installing that should reset your BIOS to defaults. If that's doesn't fix it go into BIOS and crank your shared video memory up to 64MB.

 

[baarod]

cant hurt to try anyway

He's got WHQL drivers straight from Micrsoft cleanly and natively installed. Let's work on the resource issue first please

 

[TripOG]

well my friend had the standard vga driver and same problem with an intel igp on his laptop then he got the right driver and slam bam thank you mamm it was fixed

 

[baarod]

well my friend had the standard vga driver and same problem with an intel igp on his laptop then he got the right driver and slam bam thank you mamm it was fixed

We're past that. He no longer has the standard vga driver, rather, one that was picked after precise examination of the inf files and device strings. I recommend that this poster remain with what is currently installed and try to ascertain the source of the resource conflicts that are preventing Windows from loading the driver.

 

[Orbital Shark]

We're past that. He no longer has the standard vga driver, rather, one that was picked after precise examination of the inf files and device strings. I recommend that this poster remain with what is currently installed and try to ascertain the source of the resource conflicts that are preventing Windows from loading the driver.

Could there be some setting in the BIOS which allows you to define IRQ's? If they've somehow been set manually wouldn't this cause the issue we're seeing?

 

[TripOG]

We're past that. He no longer has the standard vga driver, rather, one that was picked after precise examination of the inf files and device strings. I recommend that this poster remain with what is currently installed and try to ascertain the source of the resource conflicts that are preventing Windows from loading the driver.

10 4 i must of missed that i thought he was still using the standard vga driver

 

[dvdluvver]

Now the BIOS

Make sure you have the latest BIOS KAM1.60 ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp30501-31000/sp30514.exe

Installing that should reset your BIOS to defaults. If that's doesn't fix it go into BIOS and crank your shared video memory up to 64MB.

I'll do the BIOS update (it's never been updated since I bought it, so it's probably old) next, and report back. Thank you guys so much!!!

 

[ccatlett1984]

give this a try.

Radeon IGP 320M - Microsoft Windows Vista Community Forums - Vistaheads


windows 7 is just not detecting the video card correctly the driver is there.

 

[dvdluvver]

Got it!

Make sure you have the latest BIOS KAM1.60 ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp30501-31000/sp30514.exe

Installing that should reset your BIOS to defaults. If that's doesn't fix it go into BIOS and crank your shared video memory up to 64MB.

I actually downloaded the latest BIOS from HP, and made a boot disk (heard some ugly stories about trying to update BIOS' from Win 7). Also changed the shared video memory up to 64MB, and upon boot, everything looks beautiful! I can't believe how well Windows 7 runs on this old laptop. It's like bringing a dinosaur back to life! I think it actually runs faster with this 7 beta than with XP SP3. Anyhoo, just have to get the audio drivers working (and if they don't, no biggie) and it'll be fantastic.

I'm going to go back an rep those that gave good suggestions, but it was the BIOS that finally did it!

Thank you!!!

This forum is so helpful (I'm the "computer guy" among my circle, but its nice for someone like me to have a resource like this!).

 

[dvdluvver]

Isn't there a way to mark this thread as "solved"? ...or am I thinking of another forum?

 

[jfar]

Isn't there a way to mark this thread as "solved"? ...or am I thinking of another forum?

Hi, dvdluvver,To report a thread solved ,just click the trianglular button ,top right in your post ,and let the moderators know.

 

[baarod]

I actually downloaded the latest BIOS from HP, and made a boot disk (heard some ugly stories about trying to update BIOS' from Win 7). Also changed the shared video memory up to 64MB, and upon boot, everything looks beautiful! I can't believe how well Windows 7 runs on this old laptop. It's like bringing a dinosaur back to life! I think it actually runs faster with this 7 beta than with XP SP3. Anyhoo, just have to get the audio drivers working (and if they don't, no biggie) and it'll be fantastic.

I'm going to go back an rep those that gave good suggestions, but it was the BIOS that finally did it!

Thank you!!!

This forum is so helpful (I'm the "computer guy" among my circle, but its nice for someone like me to have a resource like this!).

This place in unusual as these kind of sites go, great talent among the members, nice design and usability and a very cool staff. I think you'll be hard pressed to find better help anywhere at any price.

 

[dvdluvver]

As a final word on this topic:

I ended up reinstalling Windows 7 (build 7100) on this machine. I needed to do NOTHING with the display drivers upon completion of the installation. The problem was solved simply with upping the shared video memory to 64MB in the BIOS (or maybe even just by updating the BIOS). If you have this problem, that's all you'll need to do to get it fixed.

Now, please see my post on the audio driver. Getting nowhere fast!

 

[baarod]

Got a link for that audio issue?

 

[dvdluvver]

Got a link for that audio issue?

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/7855-so-close-conexant-ac-link-audio-driver.html

 

[dsaner]

re-post driver?

I've got a Compaq Presario 2100 with the same IGP 320M (PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4336&SUBSYS_0024103C&REV_00)

When I tried to grab the driver from the drop-box in an earlier post, I got a 404.

I've been able to get the Standard VGA driver to display at a decent resolution by adjusting my video memory in the bios as suggested, but I'd really like to get some hardware accelleration going here if possible...

 

[baarod]

I've got a Compaq Presario 2100 with the same IGP 320M (PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4336&SUBSYS_0024103C&REV_00)

When I tried to grab the driver from the drop-box in an earlier post, I got a 404.

I've been able to get the Standard VGA driver to display at a decent resolution by adjusting my video memory in the bios as suggested, but I'd really like to get some hardware accelleration going here if possible...

Maybe try this one? Microsoft Update Catalog But you have to use IE...

 

[dsaner]

thanks

Thanks for the link, but for some reason when I tried to install them I always got an error saying that a file could not be found... I was able to find a driver that did install correctly in the old windows XP folder structure though so I'm all set now.

I'm amazed at how well this machine seems to be running! If only the there was a driver that would allow me to enable Aero...