I know that i cannot get a driver for it from intel since, they stopped making drivers for this chip after win xp. But it was suggested in other threads that i try to install the windows xp driver in compatibility mode for xp. I did that and it installs. However, then I am prompted with a message to restart my pc for the changes to take effect. When, I restart my pc windows 7 switches back to the Standard VGA driver. Is there a ways for me to keep the intel driver and not automatically revert to the VGA driver??

• Intel 845 Chipset Drivers

That is an old graphics chipset and Intel has orphaned it, so I am sorry to tell you that it will not be supported. It might be possible to use the 32-bit version of Windows 7 and you can use the XP drivers in compatibility mode.

You might want to consider a new machine as the one you have is rather old.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)!RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM, AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, HD2400 Pro, more details on my site, need a new boot disk, existing one is 5 years old. As it is said on Intel site, Intel® 82845G only provides XPDM driver that provides an interface that visually resembles the Windows XP user interface and do not support Windows 7 OS premium features such as the Microsoft Aero. user interface. XPDM drivers may install but may function with limited functionality. XPDM drivers are drivers developed for the Windows. XP operating system (OS). Intel recommends getting the latest drivers for your computer from your.

Some computer manufacturers require drivers that they customized and validated for your specific computer model. The computer manufacturer doesn't provide validated driver, the VGA generic driver is intergrated to Windows Update. For more information, please refer to: Best Regards Dale. As it is said on Intel site, Intel® 82845G only provides XPDM driver that provides an interface that visually resembles the Windows XP user interface and do not support Windows 7 OS premium features such as the Microsoft Aero.

user interface. XPDM drivers may install but may function with limited functionality. XPDM drivers are drivers developed for the Windows. XP operating system (OS). Intel recommends getting the latest drivers for your computer from your.

Some computer manufacturers require drivers that they customized and validated for your specific computer model. The computer manufacturer doesn't provide validated driver, the VGA generic driver is intergrated to Windows Update.

For more information, please refer to: Best Regards Dale.

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I finally borrowed a machine with the notorious 82845G/GLBrookdale-G/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device. At first I ran into all kinds of problems with it, and was almost ready to consider it hopeless when I went into the BIOS settings and found that the default video memory setting was only 1MB.

I changed it to 8MB (the maximum the board in this Dell Dimension machine would allow), and after that it was up and running nice and stable (Slackware 13.37, 2.6.37.6-smp).Something to try if you haven't already.Really bad news, I've changed in the BIOS by video memory from 1MB to 8MB, but it doesn't help for Debian Squeeze.It hangs again, worst than before. I finally borrowed a machine with the notorious 82845G/GLBrookdale-G/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device. At first I ran into all kinds of problems with it, and was almost ready to consider it hopeless when I went into the BIOS settings and found that the default video memory setting was only 1MB. I changed it to 8MB (the maximum the board in this Dell Dimension machine would allow), and after that it was up and running nice and stable (Slackware 13.37, 2.6.37.6-smp).Something to try if you haven't already.Could you post the output of lspci. Perhaps that system has a different revision (if that's the correct term) of that chipset. CW, a year ago, had said that he didn't have the same problems with 03 that machines with the 01 chipset were having.

A long shot, but might be useful. I finally borrowed a machine with the notorious 82845G/GLBrookdale-G/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device. At first I ran into all kinds of problems with it, and was almost ready to consider it hopeless when I went into the BIOS settings and found that the default video memory setting was only 1MB.

I changed it to 8MB (the maximum the board in this Dell Dimension machine would allow), and after that it was up and running nice and stable (Slackware 13.37, 2.6.37.6-smp).Something to try if you haven't already.Anyone else able to test this for Slackware 13.37? (Unfortunately, I had replaced my old Compaq's d510 mobo so I'm unable to do so.). I'll wait a few more days for more replies then I'll go ahead and mark this as solved.Apologies for the late post, but I've only now come across this. After upgrading yesterday from 12.2 to 13.37 I found that X was exceedingly flaky on my Rev 01 82845G/GL.

I tried various things (including swapping leet for 13.1) to no avail, and then today I ran across this thread.So I did a fresh install of leet without making any changes to the default setup, and simply tried Pat's suggestions - i.e. I upped the AGP aperture (or whatever it is) in the BIOS to 64M, I pasted the 'Composite disable' stuff into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/disable-composite.conf, and upgraded to the releases of mesa & libdrm in /testing (as far as I can tell, xf86-video-intel-2.15.0-i486-1 is already installed by default on 13.37, so I didn't upgrade that). I also tried both non-SMP and SMP kernels (the modular versions, not the monolithic ones).It did make a difference (I can actually run & use X now), BUT. X will still throw a wobbly after a while (the screen suddenly goes black for a second then the desktop returns, but is corrupted, with windows not being redrawn/cleared properly): at this point, errors are spewed out on the console. Code: (EE) intel(0): failed to set cursor: Input/output error(Should anyone want to see my /var/log/Xorg.0.log - or anything else for that matter - I'll happily post it.).I'm sorry to spoil things after you'd marked this as solved, but I was sure you'd want to know if someone had tried the procedure yet still experienced some instability! Thanks anyway, @MolBolom, for a helpful thread!And if Pat's still reading this, thanks for the tips - my problems notwithstanding, I'm typing this from 1337 (something I was resigning myself never to be able to do on my machine), and X has been stable the best part of an hour.

I've just switched to the console from which X was run, and it's filled with the error above - even though KDE appears to be fine. Further to my previous post, I have been experimenting, and I have what I hope is the definitive answer on this one.All the suggestions above have helped, but on my machine - as I mentioned before - they only really ameliorated things and didn't fix the instability completely.I investigated the Xorg logs further and found the I/O error was always associated with a hung GPU. I had a look around to find out anything useful on GPUs and cobbled together the following recipe (none of which, I hasten to add, is my own original work - I am merely a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.).(This is starting from a clean standard Slackware 13.37 installation.).Pat reported that he had success with the SMP kernel and with /testing versions of mesa & libdrm. I found that the above works with the generic (non-SMP) kernel and without the upgrades of mesa & libdrm. (I can confirm that it also works with these upgrades, too.) I haven't done exhaustive testing, trying out which others of the above list can be omitted/altered, but simply made a note of exactly what worked for me!I have tried this on more than one machine - both of my boxen (a Research Machines with a D845GVSR mainboard and a Dell Optiplex GX260) have the same onboard graphics. Code: Section 'Extensions'Option 'Composite' 'Disable'EndSectionX should now give you no more grief. (I have not had a single 'hung GPU'/'I/O error' - thank Heaven - since doing this: the only Xorg error remaining is the one where an attempt is made to add the mouse twice via /dev/input/event3 & /dev/input/mouse0, which appears trivial and causes no problems).Anyway, I hope someone out there has found my summary of some help.Golly I'm tired.

Eliminated remaining trivial errors by preventing /dev/input/mouse0 from being loaded: see comment by Dan Nicholson.