Intel - Graphical Aero Glitches

[akimatsu123]

by using vista drivers do you mean going to your computer vendor's website and downloading their drivers?

or is there something you can do in windows 7 to enable vista compatibility or something?

 

[peekj]

My computer vendor's drivers wouldn't install because they detected Windows 7 and said they weren't compatible. But I went to Intel's site and got the generic drivers and they work fine. It glitches every once in a while but it's very rare now.

 

[akimatsu123]

Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Series Processor to DRAM Controller - 2A40

Sorry for the noob question. Can someone tell me where I can find the generic driver for that? Google and Intel's search engine yields no result.

 

[peekj]

I believe I used this driver for my Intel 45 Express graphics chip:

Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows Vista * 32 (exe)

 

[chrisom]

Hi all,

I'm getting glitches as well - weird lines in the title bar, the task bar flickers, and when it gets really bad, the text goes all blurry until I resize the screen (minimise/maximise). I disable/enable aero and that seems to have helped.

The drivers listed in this thread are no longer available - I've tried intel drivers, and get the same kind of problems.

Any ideas?

 

[peekj]

I've just been living without Aero until new drivers come out...

 

[Duderino]

they dont support openGL aswell.

 

[woodyard]

Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? (see screenshot)

It happens randomly, usually when a window is being opened, moved, or maximized, etc. It's fixed by restarting Aero.

I assume it's a graphic driver problem with my Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1) card.

Just wondering if anyone else had this happen.

Oh, and it gets worse with time if I don't restart Aero...

I had the same error with build 7100. The intel driver was dated sometime in February 2009, I didn't take note of the version unfortunately.
It helps a little installing the Vista driver. Instead of the glitches, the screen goes black and then on again and I get a message saying that the driver crashed and was restarted. This happends every now and then at random times. I haven't figured out what triggers this.

Question is, isn't there a new driver from intel yet? Maybe some beta-hard-to-get-driver?

 

[woodyard]

The driver just updated from Windows Update. This helped alot, but the problem still exists, for example when a program is "not responding" and I have also tickled Chrome into showing up this way.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I've had the same happen with the WDDM 1.0 driver from Windows Update. I eventually has to download the Vista driver from Intel's website and install it with compatability mode for Vista. Windows will give a message stating that the driver is older than the 1 in use but just click yes, it worked like a charm for me.

 

[woodyard]

@Orbital Shark: You did not read my posts Vista driver isn't good for me...

 

[luccax]

I had the same problem here, even with vista drivers. I got graphical glitches all the time with the Seven drivers, and in some games with Vista ones. After testing several versions, I've found one that works all the time, no crashes and no glitches (for 3 days now), it's the version 7.15.10.1508 for Vista. I found it on a Driver CD that came with my friend's laptop. You can find it here:

Download Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family from RadarSync

Run the Vga\Vista\32bit(64bit)\Setup.exe with Vista Compatibility.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hi luccax, welcome to the forums.

Nice find, hopefully this'll help a few people out

Hope you enjoy your stay.




Jeff

 

[rflair]

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/11265-intel-gma-win7x64-15-12-75-64-1775-a.html

 

[beanmedwn]

Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? (see screenshot)

It happens randomly, usually when a window is being opened, moved, or maximized, etc. It's fixed by restarting Aero.

I assume it's a graphic driver problem with my Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1) card.

Just wondering if anyone else had this happen.

Oh, and it gets worse with time if I don't restart Aero...

I had the same error with build 7100. The intel driver was dated sometime in February 2009, I didn't take note of the version unfortunately.
It helps a little installing the Vista driver. Instead of the glitches, the screen goes black and then on again and I get a message saying that the driver crashed and was restarted. This happends every now and then at random times. I haven't figured out what triggers this.

Question is, isn't there a new driver from intel yet? Maybe some beta-hard-to-get-driver?

Has anyone else experienced this behaviour? (see screenshot)

It happens randomly, usually when a window is being opened, moved, or maximized, etc. It's fixed by restarting Aero.

I assume it's a graphic driver problem with my Mobile Intel(R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.1) card.

Just wondering if anyone else had this happen.

Oh, and it gets worse with time if I don't restart Aero...

What you got is not a driver issue you got a main board fault possibly bga rework that is only going to get worse unforuntly for you as well this is not a simple or cheap repair this requirs specilist equiment "hot air soldering" bga re-flow the best thing i would say to do is take it down to a pc repair shop and they will have to send it away.

 

[khart]

i have this problem too! .. its awful. anyone figure it out yet?

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/74199-random-graphical-glitches-screen.html

 

[Joel96]

erm hey i'm also having this problems with the pic problem...
Anyone know how to fix it??