Intel Graphics Drivers and old machines

[caffrey]

We have a lot of old p4 hp compaq machines which altho need updating are more than capable for their needs.

So I thought i'd try putting windows 7 on them and using windows classic mode etc - turn off all the fancy stuff, seems like intel have other plans though

 

Graphics — Older Intel® graphics controllers and Microsoft Windows 7* operating system

 

Machines just happen to have the 82915g/gv/910gl express chipset.

 

Any known workarounds for this or am I stuffed?

[Arthur]

This driver should work on (32-bit) Windows 7. More details here.

[caffrey]

Thats fantastic, thank you very much - works a treat

Annoying that intel say it can't be done....

[3s-gtech]

Yeah it's not really an issue with what you want - 915G doesn't like Aero anyway due to no WDDM. You're not entirely stuck with Windows 7 32 bit as some P4s on that chipset support EMT64, but you're probably better off on 32 bit. Using the classic shell should give no issues.

[caffrey]

Yep, its working fine with 32bit and classic shell, tbh I think I prefer the classic shell instead of all the bells and whistles!