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    Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Drivers

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Stunner, Aug 30, 2008.

  1. Stunner

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    Ey guys, I updated my friend's new HP laptop to the latest Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset driver from the Intel site and now when he games on Warcraft 3 on the highest settings and a resolution of 1200 x 800 there is excessive screen flickering.

    It did not behave like this before, so we tired to rollback the driver. But when we went into the device manager to try and rollback the driver the Rollback option was greyed-out and we were not able to select it.

    I am wondering if there is anyway I could see a list of the previous driver versions and if I would be able to download them. I have searched for them but really had no luck.

    By the way he is running Vista Home Premium 64-bit OS.

    Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!
     
    Stunner, Aug 30, 2008
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  2. royk50

    royk50 times being what they are

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    try system restore
     
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    System restore? You mean reformat the entire computer? We want to leave that as a last resort and really do not want to have to do that. That is the absolute last thing we want to do. We know what the problem is and finding the drivers should really be easy enough.
     
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  4. royk50

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    no no system restore is not reformat

    its a built in feature that allows "to go back in time" before you made some alteration to your system.

    press the vista orb and type system restore chose a restore point before you updated the driver and let it do its magic

    with some luck you should be good in few minutes
     
    royk50, Aug 30, 2008
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    No a system restore is not any kind of reformatting of the harddrive. System Restore restores the operation system as it was before you installed that driver. So run a System restore or install the correct drivers and you will see it will work for you.

    dang you beat me to it Royk, we posted almost at the same time :)
     
    Magnus72, Aug 30, 2008
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  6. amoney3

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    Try to up the refresh rate to 60hz or drop the resolution
     
    amoney3, Aug 30, 2008
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    The system will have a restore point even if my friend has never made a backup of anything? We are not going to change the resolution because it is at the native resolution and the display is fine on the computer, only crummy when in game. I am not quite sure exactly what computer he has, but I will look into that link, thanks Chaz.
     
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    yes.
    try it.
     
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  10. Stunner

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    Alright, will do thanks. Will update you guys.
     
    Stunner, Aug 31, 2008
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