Newer, better grahics driver from Intel

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pmeinl · #1 Post by **pmeinl** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:43 am

Intel has a newer graphics driver (7.14.10.1329, 13.9.2007) for the X61 than Lenovo (7.14.10.1222, 30.3.2007).

I is tricky to install: The setup shows an error "not validated for this machine", device manager update driver shows "driver is up to date" when pointing to the unzipped files.

This worked for me:

1. Download the zipped version and unzip it to a temp directory.
Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_ ... bmit=Go%21

2. In device manager right-click the "Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipse"t display adapter,
Click "Browse my computer..."
Click "Let me pick from a list..." (directly browsing from here does not work!)
Click "Have disk"
Browse to the \gryphics subdirectory of then temp directory you created

With the intel driver
- Aero works without the driver recovery problem
- Update Vista experience index no longer hangs
- My Vista experience index is better now:
Processor: 4.7
Memory: 5,7
Graphics: 3,5
Gaming: 3,5
HDD: 5.3

pmeinl · #2 Post by **pmeinl** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:30 am

Beware! My post was for Vista x64.

The are 32bit drivers too, which I have not tried:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_ ... bmit=Go%21

tselling · #3 Post by **tselling** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:06 am

If you uninstall the Lenovo driver, the Intel driver will install fine as well.

dfumento · #4 Post by **dfumento** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:11 am

Installed the driver on my X60.
Graphics went from 3.1 to 3.4
Gaming Graphics from 3.0 to 3.1

gdavis · #5 Post by **gdavis** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:32 pm

help, help!!!!!

I updated a group of Windows Vista updates today and now have a big problem!

The Intel 965 graphics driver doesn't function anymore....

When I launch Device Manager, the Intel Driver has the yellow warning sign, and then clicked on shows this-

'This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)

If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system.'

When I check out that code from MS's support site, it says that it may be another device using that location or something similar.

I tried a system restore back to a prior date, but it failed to restore.

Any ideas on how to diagnose this problem?

#6 Post by **ryengineer** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:59 pm

Reinstall GPU drivers from lenovo:

Drivers and software - ThinkPad X61 Tablet.

gdavis · #7 Post by **gdavis** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:08 pm

I did that earlier, and it does show it already installed in the device manager window, but it says that it doesn't have enough resources and cannot run.

Should I remove it and then try reinstalling it again?

Also, I noticed that there is a default vga driver showing in some screens, but not visible in the device manager. Is it possible that that other driver is the one conflicting with the Intel GPU one?

#8 Post by **ryengineer** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:14 pm

You need to go to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\DISPLAY\SETUP.EXE to install the drivers, all the package you downloaded from lenovo does is it unpacks itself to a folder.

EDIT: Remove all drivers (gpu) from device manager, restart and then install the drivers from lenovo again.

gdavis · #9 Post by **gdavis** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:46 pm

I'll try removing the current one as you said, restart, then install again (in the morning).

There must also be a default video driver in there somewhere that is the one that I saw (only allowing one display) that resides in Windows I guess. Is that one part of Windows and is that why it doesn't show in the device manager listing for display drivers?

awolfe63 · #10 Post by **awolfe63** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:14 am

Does anybody know if it is worthwhile to do this driver upgrade for XP?

hawg16 · #11 Post by **hawg16** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:11 pm

ryengineer wrote:You need to go to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\DISPLAY\SETUP.EXE to install the drivers, all the package you downloaded from lenovo does is it unpacks itself to a folder.

EDIT: Remove all drivers (gpu) from device manager, restart and then install the drivers from lenovo again.

I'm having the exact same issue on my T60, but this did not resolve the issue.

gdavis, have you had any further luck fixing this issue?

#12 Post by **bill bolton** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:29 pm

hawg16 wrote:I'm having the exact same issue on my T60, but this did not resolve the issue.

I installed this newer Intel driver on my T60 and the Vista performance graphics scores went DOWN, from 3.3 to 3.0.

On my X61 it didn't change the Vista graphics performance scores and doesn't seem to make any noticeable difference at all for what I do.

Cheers,

Bill B.

Newer, better grahics driver from Intel

Newer, better grahics driver from Intel

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