Intel 915 Graphics Chipset and Windows 7

May 28, 2009 | Posted by chris

I recently have been playing around with Windows  7 and am beyond impressed so far with its features and speed. It runs great on my Thinkpad T43 with only 1.5GB of memory.

I have heard of it running smooth on Celeron 933 systems too though!

Anyway if you happen to have the Intel 915 Chipset you won’t find much support for Vista let alone Windows 7. You will find that the supplied drivers simply do not cut it. I have come up with a solution that at least works on my system and will help others I hope.

After the Windows 7 upgrade I was pretty giddy and upbeat with this brand new OS, but soon realized what a headache it was trying to find a solution to the lackluster driver situation. No help from Microsoft or Intel and the forums did not have the answers I needed either.

After some hours of research I finally came across a driver package from HP that supports the 915 chipset. The reason for the Vista driver is simply that my games, videos and other graphics intensive applications worked just fine with Vista SP2.

After extracting the files, running the setup.exe in Compatibility Mode of Vista, my games run smoother now and no BSOD’s or any other driver related errors or problems. For steps downloading and installing the drivers follow below.

1. Download SP34749.EXE

2. Once file is downloaded extract files to location of your choice

3. Find the setup.exe within the extracted files and than right click and choose Properties and than Compatibility. Make sure the options shown in the screenshot are selected.

That is pretty much it.

Make sure when you are done installing the new driver to also set Compatibility on the application or game you are having issues with. I found setting them to “Windows Vista” work  just fine.

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