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X40 Win7 Graphic Drivers?

#1 Post by khtsurrect » Sun Apr 05, 2020 4:51 am

I recently had the the need for system which had parallel port and remembered that I had an old X40 (1.5GB RAM) and Ultradock which has the needed LPT-port to be used together with XM1541 Multitask adapter cable to be able to connect a CBM 1571 drive. Several threads talks about the possibility to make use of old XP/Vista drivers which should work out with Win7 and while I'm tempted to give it a try I'm not that keen on re-installing and trashing a working installation that I got now. While the installation was really quick due to that I replaced the original 1.8" drive with a PATA to M.2 adapter the 20 min to install Win 7 I can live with but it was more the 6-8 hours of constant downloading, installing, Win7 patches and upgrades that took a while on the Win7 SP1 media that I used.

So anyone have experience on installing old graphic drivers in Win 7 which seems the only thing beside BT which Win7 didn't pick up of the hardware since everything else works really great and I'm actually impressed that this old system works this well. Also, had the replace the cmos battery, but else everything works fine.

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Re: X40 Win7 Graphic Drivers?

#2 Post by RealBlackStuff » Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:19 am

Check if any of the X40 drivers work from the Drivers link at top of this page.
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Re: X40 Win7 Graphic Drivers?

#3 Post by kfzhu1229 » Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:47 am

There are no Windows Vista or 7 iGPU drivers for X40. the iGPU in X40 is not DX9 capable so no Windows Aero support and no Vista driver support. But you can get by in Windows 7 with Windows XP drivers but with no Windows Aero.
I have heard there is a mod to a Windows Vista GMA950 driver to work with a X41 but don't know whether that works.
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Re: X40 Win7 Graphic Drivers?

#4 Post by axur-delmeria » Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:01 pm

kfzhu1229 wrote:
Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:47 am
There are no Windows Vista or 7 iGPU drivers for X40. the iGPU in X40 is not DX9 capable so no Windows Aero support and no Vista driver support. But you can get by in Windows 7 with Windows XP drivers but with no Windows Aero.
Looks like this is OP's best option.
kfzhu1229 wrote:
Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:47 am
I have heard there is a mod to a Windows Vista GMA950 driver to work with a X41 but don't know whether that works.
That won't work in this case. The X41 has GMA 900 integrated graphics, while the X40 has the older Extreme Graphics 2.
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Re: X40 Win7 Graphic Drivers?

#5 Post by max_immelman » Thu Feb 11, 2021 10:08 am

If the x40 uses Intel 852/855 graphics, you should be able to install Intel driver 6.14.10.3722, but with some modifications. Follow the advice at the link below, and let us know what happens. I don't have an x40 to test, but I can confirm this procedure worked on a ThinkPad R50e, which also uses Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (852/855GME):

http://web.archive.org/web/201003311127 ... MWin7.html

The procedure above involves changing ownership of the file vgapnp.sys, and then deliberately corrupting it (opening vgapnp.sys in an ASCII text editor, adding a single character at the end of the file, then saving it), which allows the driver to install. It sounds tricky, but it isn't that bad. Once driver is installed, you'll get all acceleration functions, but you won't get Aero functionality (this requires a feature called "hardware scheduling," which all Intel graphics drivers before GM950 lack). Note that this driver does not support OpenGL, so you'll need something called "GLDirect" to allow for OpenGL acceleration.

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Re: X40 Win7 Graphic Drivers?

#6 Post by kfzhu1229 » Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:06 pm

For the GMA's before GMA950, they typically have 2 devices shown in device manager and in XP you install both.
However, in Windows 7, I found out if you install drivers for both, it would glitch out and automatically uninstall the drivers entirely. This happened on my iGPU based T43 and Latitude D400.
The solution I have is to install in safe mode, so that if you install the one labelled as standard vga adapter, the other device won't automatically install itself, and then when I reboot into regular mode it works perfectly.
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Re: X40 Win7 Graphic Drivers?

#7 Post by Fierelier » Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:31 pm

I hope it's fine if I necro this a little, just in case someone else runs across this.

It might be worth trying the Vista drivers instead (6.14.10.4656). From what I can tell, Intel never officially offered these, but they do work. No weird procedure required to install those either, though you should enable Text Boot (msconfig -> Boot -> OS boot information) to prevent a bluescreen on boot.

Using this driver enables you to use OpenGL as well, which only a very few revisions of that driver seem to able to, on 7.

Here are the MD5 hashes of what I have in case anyone is interested:

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e5b285dcb7bed6686ac847c77adb61c6 *ialmdd5.dll
38690ea51757e91cff80d63ccbcaeca7 *ialmdev5.dll
efd8f4c5b3155434ec25c02472a01dd8 *ialmdnt5.dll
8a49a9b3a0819a65753516b76dfd6ebc *ialmnt5.inf
8318e04a6455ced1020bcc5039b62cfa *ialmnt5.sys
4639ca9f945a5c509b7ad2379ccdf022 *ialmrnt5.dll
95123464eebf34bfe8725542c6e384ea *igxpxa32.cpa
1037cd764d18b8e6d05ce006a771f9e9 *igxpxa32.vp
765cb03717d62e6f7c9f0d42d6420be3 *igxpxk32.vp
b40d9f7e3e07c9eb5fe447bbe401207a *igxpxs32.vp
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