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Updating display driver in vista for old computer

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/updating-display-driver-in-vista-for-old-computer.103752/

Sridhar_Rao
Sridhar_Rao Original post #1
Dec 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM
I have a old computer running on Intel D845GVSR motherboard with onboard graphics. I attempted to test-install windows Vista Home. Installation was successful but the display is horrible. The screen resolution is fixed at 640 x 480 (medium 16 bit colours). There is no option to increase this resolution. I went to the device manager and tried to update the display drivers, which searched the net and displayed that the system has updated drivers already. I visited Intel website and they have an online tool to detect graphics drivers, surprisingly it also said that the drivers are already updated. This resolution is so bad that sometimes I can't even see the OK Cancel button of dialog boxes.

The installation CD that came with the motherboard is useless and it says "unknown OS". The Intel CD was for Win98/NT/2000/XP.

Is there any solution to this problem or this is the maximum that is possible?
M
Dec 6, 2008 at 10:29 PM
dude me too using the same motherborad and Vista is not for D845GVSR ;)

Frankly Remove it ;) No solution in this case, otherwise be ready for a damaged/overheated mobo ;)