Video Driver Dilema

[dogdaynoon]

Okay, go ahead and laugh now then read and laugh again.

 

I just wiped XP pro off of a Dell ;) dimension 2400. I upgraded the processor to a

pentium 4 and the ram to 2 GB. Added a 250GB HD and a DVD burner.

 

Then I installed windows server 2008 enterprise 32 bit trial edition.

Laughter now is acceptable... :)

 

So, I was extremely suprised at how well this is acctually running this OS.

 

My problem herin lies...

None of the DELL graphics drivers for this board/chipset support windows server 2008.

So I am stuck with the looowww resolution settings. 600-400 blah blah...

Any Ideas on how to get a graphics driver installed so i dont have to scroll

around on every single window i open.

 

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS/dim2400/en/sm_en/specs.htm

That is a link to the tech specs. It should be the same except for

the processor, hd, ram and drives.

 

Thanks in advance. james

[F2 Staff]

Go to Intels site and download the Windows 7 drivers. That video device is not supported on Windows 7 or Windows 2008, but, you should get better results installing it. You could also try Windows Update while booted in Windows 2008.

[dogdaynoon]

Go to Intels site and download the Windows 7 drivers. That video device is not supported on Windows 7 or Windows 2008, but, you should get better results installing it. You could also try Windows Update while booted in Windows 2008.

 

 

Well... I went to Intel to find the windows 7 drivers but they are only supported back to the 900 series board, I have an 845. I also ran all my updates but didn't get anywhere there either.

I found an old ATI R9250 PCI card and put it in. Luckily there were some windows drivers in server 2008 that auto installed.

Then i went to ATI's website and downloaded the xp 32 bit setup.exe file for this card and ran it.

Luck again, it didn't install but it did extract to a folder.

Then I ran the update driver function from the hardware mananger and told it to look in the extracted folder for the drivers. Wal ah!

I have some graphics finally. I won't be gaming on this baby for sure but at least I have some resolution settings now.

 

But truth be told I don't think I would be able to find the drivers for this board very easily.