Installing video driver for Intel 855 Centrino Chipset

[shinobi155]

Thanks LEXXION (and also everyone else) I was able to install the driver.
But I have one problem .. my native resolution is 1280x800 but Windows 7 is making it 1024x768. I have a widescreen laptop.
Is there any way to change this? Thanks.
I used the list all modes option, but 1280x800 is not there.

 

[ishti54]

sony vaio t2xp utilities issue after installing Win 7

Lexxion,

thanks for your tutorial to make my sony vaio t2xp display back in full life. but now i can't install available Vista utilities for this model. i tried to install DLL to Shared Liberary but after installation no Brightness or other function is working, please advise?

regards

 

[lexxion]

I would try to use 6.14.10.3732 as it may fix some problems. The function key + brightness adjustment should work fine but software control of brightness I never tried it.

 

[ishti54]

Lexxion,

thanks again for your help, Vista Utilities did't work on sony vaio t2xp but its original Utilities (for widows XP) did work and most of Fn are working now.

now it tried to apply all this proceedure to my other laptop, sony vaio t150, after reaching to step 5, windows asked me to restart. after restarting, screen was still same i mean small with low resolution. and there is a message,

" HkWindName: hkcmd.exe - Bad Image. C:\Windows\system32\igfxsrvc.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system admin or the software vendor for support".

i can see the driver name in the device manager next to display. but both files name are with esclamation yellow marks.

i tried to uninstall and follow your tutorial from step 1 to 5 but same problem. may be i have installed all windows 7 32bit updates first on this laptop rather sorting out the display issue first, or don't know what is the problem, please help
anybody please advise what to do
regards

 

[lexxion]

Lexxion,

thanks again for your help, Vista Utilities did't work on sony vaio t2xp but its original Utilities (for widows XP) did work and most of Fn are working now.

now it tried to apply all this proceedure to my other laptop, sony vaio t150, after reaching to step 5, windows asked me to restart. after restarting, screen was still same i mean small with low resolution. and there is a message,

" HkWindName: hkcmd.exe - Bad Image. C:\Windows\system32\igfxsrvc.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system admin or the software vendor for support".

i can see the driver name in the device manager next to display. but both files name are with esclamation yellow marks.

i tried to uninstall and follow your tutorial from step 1 to 5 but same problem. may be i have installed all windows 7 32bit updates first on this laptop rather sorting out the display issue first, or don't know what is the problem, please help
anybody please advise what to do
regards

I never seen a problem with 'igfxsrvc.dll' file after following my procedure. I would right-click those exclamation yellow marks and do 'Update Driver' and pick the folder with the driver I provided to see if it will install it correctly. After install restart again. See if it works.

 

[ishti54]

yes i have tried to update the driver from those escalamtion marks but no change.
what els should i try?

regards

 

[myGenio]

Hi everyone, I'v
Dell D505

VGA installed work good, now can i to run aero? thanks for all.

 

[shinobi155]

i finally got the vista driver to work on my windows 7 laptop.
i used this driver: http://justendeal.com/driver/855gm_vista_driver.zip

after reading back and combining solutions .. i installed drivermax 4.5 which i figured out that it would have been what the older post posters would have used since the new version of drivermax didn't work for me.
i imported the driver with drivermax and restarted. the blue screen of death appeared.
then i remembered a post saying that i needed to reboot into safe mode pressing the F8 button on booting up, run msconfig and and on the boot tab made sure that "OS boot information" had a tick. Pressed ok, rebooted, no more blue screen and the driver worked. thank you God and to everyone on this thread.
*hugs* .. hopefully no more troubles ..

 

[Nickmc]

Sony VGN T1XP Tried and Failed

To Lexxion,

Sadly I followed the instructions on my Sony VGN T1XP to the letter and it failed.

I followed all the instructions to the letter. Downloaded the files required, loaded a CMD in admin mode. Took control of c:\windows\system32\drivers\vgapnp.sys file. Then got to Step 5....STEP 5

In Device Manager uninstall Standard VGA Adapter. It will prompt you to restart so do it........so I restarted and now my machine does not load. Black screen that stop does not load into Windows. Tried Safe Mode.....no joy....Tried Safe Mode Command prompt......no joy......Tried Safe Mode Low Resolution...no joy. Regardless of boot option the screen is black. Any suggestions?

 

[nobodees]

Thanks you, Lexxion

You don't know how much I appreciated what you did. I spent hours and hours on this, to a point it wasn't for the sake of getting a better looking computer, but really an obsession. I tried every method recommended by others, and also my own ideas, and none worked. Your method is the only one that worked, and also the only one that really made good sense to me (and that's probably why it worked in the first place).

Although your detailed description may be intimidating at first glance, the idea behind it is very simple: (1) identify a video driver that would work; and (2) take away the control over the default video driver from the computer; and (3) install the identified video driver that works. The fact that there is an almost fully functioning video driver out there for this old system is just luck, and the fact that there's someone like you smart and persistent enough to figure it out is an even more fortunate thing. Thank you very much.

 

[foofuu]

Thanks for great tutorial lexxion! All worked just fine except after the last boot some of my colors went crazy. Desktop looks like 32bit color but the mouse pointer is somewhat close to 16-256 colors. Any suggestions how to fix this?

First, thanks to lexxion for his great tutorial. I took me hours until I found the one and only working solution ! Again, thanks for this !
But unfortunatly I have the same problem as mikko. After installing the driver according to the tutorial, I had the correct resolution but the same problem with the mouse arrow. I re-installed the driver, but got the same problem. Maybe it's a "aero"-problem? Anyway, this is how I "fixed" it ... I changed the Mouse-Scheme to <none> (I don't know how this is called in english Win7) and deactivated the "Mouse Shadow"-Option ... now the mouse arrow is fine for me ...
Maybe someone has noticed this problem and has found a better workaround?

Once again thumbs up to lexxion...

Regards, foofuu


PS: The notebook is a Sony Vaio VGN-T2XP

 

[snoozemode]

Better solution, with no problems of freezing when maximizing the media player as with with the 6.14.10.3732 driver.

1. Click 'Start' and in 'Search' type 'msconfig'. On the boot tab, tick 'OS boot information' (this is to get rid of the blue screen during boot). Exit but don't restart now.

2. Download http://justendeal.com/driver/855gm_vista_driver.zip unpack and then update "standard vga adapter" with this driver, make sure you choose that you have a disk and point to the directory where you unpacked the zip.

3. Reboot. Now you have version 6.14.10.4656.

 

[mcgyver83]

I have an old Toshiba Tecra A2 with Intel 82852/82855 video chipset.
I did all the steps: uninstalling the device, edit vgapnp.sys, restart, install "manually" the driver from Intel_6_14_10_3722; I runned the command line command to disable Windows Driver signature check.
I had the BSOD:
This was probably caused by the following module: ialmnt5.sys (ialmnt5+0x152F9)
Bugcheck code: 0x1000007E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFFFFF92ACB2F9, 0xFFFFFFFF8D679B70, 0xFFFFFFFF8D679750)
I runned msconfig and checked to don't load GUI, restarted but I alway have the BSOD and relative warning at startup...

 

[swisstrader]

@Lexxion

Thank you so much for your rework paper of installing Intel 855 GME to a Win 7 32 bit notebook. Now works it on my ThinkPad X40. One important note: My user name of my installation was 'Jim Knopf'. I had to create a new user account with a single name, then I could change the vgapnp.sys owner status in old DOC command area.



Best regards,
swisstrader

 

[NNSVolunteer]

May be an old thread but Lexxion's guide still works

Thanks,

Just used your guide to install the Intel 8xxx driver on a Toshiba Satellite A45-S121.

A day later used it again on a Dell Dimension 2350. Both times it worked great.

On the Dell, I copied the original vgapnp.sys file to a USB drive. Then after following the guide, I deleted the vgapnp.sys file I had modified; then copied the original from the USB drive. This made it easier and quicker to restore the file to it's pre-altered state.

Thanks again Lexxion