Intel 865g Graphics Driver

[Jon Followell]

Ican confirm that the Driver Cindy recommends above works. I just installed in on my Dell Dimension 3,000 running Win7 Ultimate and it worked fine. Until then Win 7 just used a generic driver that gave only 600 x 480 resolution or something completley unusable like that.

I too got a message like that. I wish I knew exactly what it was, but at first it said the fix wasn't supported, or there was an error or something. But, I pushed through the error message and let it install anyway. I might have had on more step after that I forget now. But I do know after applying the driver and restarting (I think I had to restart, not sure now) that it did work.

I looked everywhere for a solution to the Intel 865G running on Windows 7....I upgraded from Window XP Home....This fix worked PERFECT!!! Thank you so much....I hope more people find this link quicker than I did....Thanks Again!!

I am having the same problem as CindyO. I tried loading the driver from the link Boris Lam provided ( _Desc.aspx?ProductID=1049&DwnldID=9498&lang=eng Download Center), running it in compatability mode, but it did not work. However, I did find the Dell Driver listed in CindyO's 2nd post (R106458) and tried running it in compatability mode and it worked fine for me. I am running Windows 7 on a Dell Dimension 3000 with the Intel 865 video chip set. Now everything works fine on my display. Thanks to all for your support. Tom

ive installed WIN 7 32 bit on a Dell Dimension 1100. Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz 2x1GB DDRAM. OS showed me a standard VGA graphics card. All kind of messages appeared when I tried to start FreeCell, for example.

What happens is that the Intel 865G chipset has not been validated to work with Windows 7. The operating systems that are compatible with that chipset are in the following link -009180.htm -009180.htm

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I have been struggling to get a Dell Dimension 4600 Pentium 4 with 512mb of RAM and Intel 865G chipset working correctly with Win 98 / DOS . I installed the Intel inf drivers and pretty much every device is functioning. I also installed the v 13.6.1 graphics drivers that cover the 865G chipset (win9x1361.exe file floating around the internet in a few places). The drivers install fine and the graphics work in Win 98. However, if I try to run DOS games from Win 98 the screen goes black. If I hit alt + Enter to go to windowed mode I can see what was on the screen in the window so behind the scenes the driver is working but it is showing a black screen in full-screen mode. Also, if I try to restart in DOS mode from Win 98, the screen distorts and then freezes. Finally, Duke 3D complains the vesa driver was not found/supported. So there is an issue with this running a DOS window. If I boot Win 98 straight into dos or if I remove the drivers and use the standard VGA driver, I can then get video for DOS games. This is not ideal however as I would like to have use of the graphics. I have tried playing with every Win 98 graphics setting I could find and there isn't much to change in BIOS so I am hitting a brick wall.

I recently upgraded my HP/Compaq model D530 SFF (small form factor) Pc from XP-PRO to Win-7. The upgrade was very easy and went smoothly. Windows update automatically upgraded the ADI AC97 Integratd Digital Audio driver to Ver. 5.12.1.5410 and the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver to Ver. 10.100.0.0., both of which are listed by HP as Win-Vista certified.

Unfortunately, it didn't automatically update the driver for the Intel 865G motherboard graphics hardware. Instead, it installed a "generic" Microsoft VGA set of drivers. My particular D530 SFF is a 2.8ghz hyperthreaded P4, but according to the HP "Drivers WEB site" (for XP), ALL versions of the HP D530 have the same graphics hardware; so, my exact sub-model shouldn't really matter.

Windows 7 runs robustly (at least as well as XP) on this nice little PC. In three days it has generated NO "system" or "application" log errors. The Win-7 notification center, however, annoyingly informs me every time that I open a Win-7 specific graphics program (even the Solitaire game) that my video card is running in "software rendering" mode with NO hardware acceleration. Even the Solitaire game runs very S-L-O-W-L-Y, but it runs without error. The Microsoft "DirectX Diagnostic Utility" indicates that DirectX 11 is running successfully on my PC and that it finds NO errors. It indicates (as I already knew) that hardware acceleration has been turned off.

I've tried to run HP's softpac "sp31335.exe" to load the version "6.14.10.4396 A" graphics drivers that ran on this PC, when XP was installed. The softpac terminates before doing anything with a message that says "OS NOT supported." Because the softpac graphic drivers are supposedly "XPDM" compliant, I suspect that they will probably work with Win-7 (even though they are NOT supported by HP and may have some minor issues). Anyway, I would like to set a "restore point" and give it a whirl. What have I got to loose, since there is NO data or programs installed on this PC (clean install). In the worst case, I would just have to reload Win-7.

My problem: I can't get at the version "6.14.10.4396 A" graphics drivers because of the softpac installer program (i.e. "sp31335.exe"). Is there any way that I can bypass the "OS NOT supported" message and get the graphics drivers to install anyway?

Update: I solved my problem. Even though HP has structured its SoftPac executable program (sp31335.exe) so that it won't install the XPDM graphic driver ver. 6.14.10.4396 on an HP-D530 with Windows 7 OS, Intel makes this driver available on its WEB site and which is downloadable in .ZIP format.

While doing research, however, I found a later version of the Intel driver and installed it. The Windows DirectX Diagnostic Utility reports NO errors and hardware acceleration has been turned on. Also, 96MB of memory is allocated to graphics. I've run for a solid week with full graphics performance at least equal to what was previously achieved in Windows XP. The data for this download is as follows:

A3: Intel will provide support for WDDM drivers beginning with the Intel 945 Express chipset family and beyond. See question 5 below for a detailed explanation of WDDM support on Intel 915 Express chipset-based platforms. However, Windows Vista is supported on the Intel 865G, 915G Express desktop chipsets and 852/855GM mobile chipsets running XPDM (XP Display Driver Model) driver included on the Windows Vista install media. Windows Vista will install on these platforms, but advanced features such as Windows Aero will not be enabled as XPDM drivers do not support Windows AERO.

Thank you for your very prompt response. I downloaded and ran the executable specified in your WEB link. It opened a window that was entitled, "Intel Package Manager" and started extracting a number of files, but then terminated with the following message: "ERROR -- This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software. Setup will exit." The Intel program cleaned up after itself; so, NO files were actually extracted and stored on my PC. Pretty much what happened, when I tried running the HP softpac program.

My particular HP D530 SFF does NOT have any of the HP optional DVI ADD cards or nVidia AGP cards installed. It is using only the native motherboard graphics support [i.e. Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated with Intel 865G chipset)], which is common to ALL HP D530 computers. Please refer to the following HP specifications page:

The Windows XP "device manager" utility reports that "Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (integrated with Intel 865G chipset)" hardware is present on all of the seven (7) other identical D530 PCs that I own. The Windows 7 "device manager" (of course) reports that a Microsoft "Standard VGA Graphics Adaptor" is installed because Windows 7 has loaded its own driver, which does NOT support hardware acceleration.

As you can tell, the HP D530 system that I have been talking about is one of eight (8) itdentical sisters and that I have loaded Windows 7 on this particular machine to test whether I should do so for the other seven.

It sounds to me like Intel has tossed the ball back to HP (and the other OEMs), when it comes to the 865G family of graphics controllers. Maybe, you can read the above referenced page and tell me, if my interpretation is correct?

Sounds to me like Intel provided XPDM support for the 865G so that Windows Vista could be run on these machines. In fact (to quote Intel) "Intel has tested XPDM graphics drivers on Windows Vista only on the following integrated graphics controllers: Intel 82865 Graphics Controller, Intel 82915G/82910GL Express Chipset Family, and the Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset Family." Perhaps this is why the HP D530 doesn't have any problems with Windows Vista (using the "written for XP" drivers). Seems like Windows 7 has either "fallen through the crack" or nobody wants the HP D530 PC to optimally run Windows 7.

Actually, my D530 PC runs Windows 7 very well, except that any 3D graphic operation is painfully S-L-O-W due to the lack of hardware acceleration that was present in both XP and Vista. I still think that, if I can get to the drivers, within the HP "sp31335.exe" softpac, that everything will work. Maybe somebody at HP could change the unconditional softpac termination due to "Unsupported OS" to a conditional warning that asks "do you want to continue anyway"?

HP sold an awful lot of the D530 series machines. The Windows 7 graphics support issue is subject of literally thousands of WEB posts. I just happened upon this forum and thought that I'd give it a chance.

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