andy-integrale Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Hello all New to Edu Geek - not a tech or NM but a CoG at a small primary who often gets roped in to technical things! Just had some C touch screens. Most of them run fine off the RM One PC201 teachers desk top machines via VGA. The ones that work have an Nvidia graphics card / display drivers. Where we have an issue is two RM machines running Intel G41 Express. The screen says "no Signal". If I update the driver the screen works but the desktop display doesn't, it goes black after start up, as I think its only DVI compatible. If I effectively uninstall the display drivers and rely on native PCI GDIHOOKS it all seems to work OK on both screens but display options are limited i.e. you can only mirror the display. Whilst were in the process of upgrading our server to 2012 and teacher desktops to W7 which will also look at desktop H/W specs to include HDMI requirements I wondered if any could. suggest any work arounds or; Comment on any issues with running without the display drivers in the short term. Thanks
Arthur Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Were you using the latest G41 graphics drivers for XP (linked below)? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21828&lang=eng
DMcCoy Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 Were you using the latest G41 graphics drivers for XP (linked below)? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21828&lang=eng The G41 seems to be pretty terrible, the RM One implementation with it seems to be even worse. These machines halted an 8.1 deployment because there is no functional driver for 8.1. The black screen with the latest driver was encountered with these machines with Windows 7 too until an older version was found that would turn on the dvi/vga (I forget which) for the monitor. 1
andy-integrale Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) The G41 seems to be pretty terrible, the RM One implementation with it seems to be even worse. These machines halted an 8.1 deployment because there is no functional driver for 8.1. The black screen with the latest driver was encountered with these machines with Windows 7 too until an older version was found that would turn on the dvi/vga (I forget which) for the monitor. Yes Arthur the up to date driver you link to gets the CTouch working just fine but you get black screen on the RM ONE. dDMcCoy - yep, that's what I need, an interim driver version that's up date enough to spark the CTouch into life but is also backwards compatible with the RM One. If you have any record of that driver version it would be gratefully received. I have spent most of the day today in school trying to sort and have them something workable for tomorrow. Thanks for the replies. Edited January 18, 2015 by andy-integrale
Arthur Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) the up to date driver you link to gets the CTouch working just fine but you get black screen on the RM ONE. yep, that's what I need, an interim driver version that's up date enough to spark the CTouch into life but is also backwards compatible with the RM One. Is the previous driver any good (dated 29/02/2012) or does that have the same issue? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21073 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProdId=3048 Edited January 18, 2015 by Arthur 1
Arthur Posted January 18, 2015 Posted January 18, 2015 The G41 seems to be pretty terrible As is the 915G in Dell's OptiPlex GX280. Since there weren't any 64-bit drivers available for Windows 7 we installed cheap discrete graphic cards. Problem solved!
andy-integrale Posted January 18, 2015 Author Posted January 18, 2015 Is the previous driver any good (dated 29/02/2012) or does that have the same issue? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21073 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProdId=3048 Tried 5420 and then 5402 - same issue unfortunately :-(
Arthur Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) Tried 5420 and then 5402 - same issue unfortunately :-( I have found a copy of v14.38.5.5068 (07/05/2009) which you can download here. Hopefully it's old enough not to have the black screen issue? Edited January 19, 2015 by Arthur 1
andy-integrale Posted January 19, 2015 Author Posted January 19, 2015 Thanks Arthur. Popped into school this morning on my way to work and disabled the intel drivers on the offending machines - will do for the time being but may give that one a go.
DMcCoy Posted January 19, 2015 Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) The version on the WDS server for Windows 7 contains the following in the inf file (can't tell you what it was packaged as though) 07/21/2009 8.15.10.1851 Edited January 19, 2015 by DMcCoy 1
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