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    Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500mhd driver issues

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by alastiar, Jun 30, 2009.

  1. alastiar

    alastiar Notebook Consultant

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    alastiar, Jun 30, 2009
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  2. alastiar

    alastiar Notebook Consultant

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    Is anyone else having this problem with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500mhd? This is the latest driver for Win7 RC 32bit that i have installed and with the old driver i got the message "Display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered" and it flashed for 5 sec. its really holding me back from pre-order Win7.

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    alastiar, Jul 1, 2009
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  3. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    You do know that Win7 isn't 'final' until October? Plenty of time for msft and the hardware people to get their driver acto together.

    That being said, I'm running the G45 graphics in about 8 machines with Win7/b7231 without any kind of problem.
     
    newsposter, Jul 1, 2009
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  4. alastiar

    alastiar Notebook Consultant

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    so it is just only me having this problem ....
     
    alastiar, Jul 1, 2009
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  5. Lew

    Lew Notebook Deity

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    Actually, with the VERY latest Intel driver (8.15.10.1808 from Intel's site) I've seen one or two brief instances of onscreen graphics corruption in Firefox 3.5. Not a big enough deal to revert back yet.
     
    Lew, Jul 1, 2009
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  6. alastiar

    alastiar Notebook Consultant

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    mine get that all the time, not just in FF, anywhere anytime, all over the screen :(
     
    alastiar, Jul 1, 2009
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  7. bub181

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    I get that all the time too when I have the desktop composition enabled in Windows 7. I had to turn of the aero interface and desktop composition to fix it.

    Other people are having the same problem too, it seems it's a problem if you have unmatched memory module sizes:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=306454&page=90
    http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=52...37_with_intel_gma_4500mhd_graphics_corruption
    http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=52...T400_series_ThinkPads&message.id=14359#M14359
     
    bub181, Aug 24, 2009
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  8. johnnyftw

    johnnyftw Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yep, I've had issues with drivers myself. Which is why I just forced install vista drivers from my laptops manufacturer.
     
    johnnyftw, Aug 24, 2009
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  9. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    Why are you running the Vista driver?!? In any event, I too have some occasionally corruption issues running 8.15.10.1808 (via Windows 7/Windows Update), but nowhere near as bad as what you have. Evidently, Intel still has issues to fix, but it hasn’t been bad enough for me to even think about using Vista’s non-WDDM 1.1 drivers.
     
    BinkNR, Aug 24, 2009
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  10. Patrick

    Patrick Formerly beat spamers with stiks

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    I had (have) the same issues. I have resorted to using my ATI card instead. Why? Because it was Either use the intel and have a long battery, or use the ATI and be able to use the computer. I chose option B.
     
    Patrick, Aug 24, 2009
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  11. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    folks, you need to upgrade all of your drivers in order

    chipset (.inf files mostly)
    ICH
    video
    audio
    networking
    misc components

    If you don't get the chipset and ICH drivers in correctly, you'll never get the vid and aud drivers in correctly.
     
    newsposter, Aug 25, 2009
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  12. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I have similar issues, too. I'll try to follow your guide, newsposter, this evening.
     
    davepermen, Aug 25, 2009
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  13. RTAdams89

    RTAdams89 Newbie

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    I had this issue too. Mine was caused by a) having hardware visualization enabled in the BIOS and b) having unmatched RAM sticks (one 1GB and one 2GB). The solution for me was to replace the 1GB RAM stick with a 2GB stick. I now don't have any corruption issues.
     
    RTAdams89, Nov 2, 2009
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  14. Naix

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    Hey thanks it worked. I had the virtualization on for the cpu but when I disabled it, it fixed the blur. thanks dude. I dont think you had to change the ram stuff.
     
    Naix, Nov 3, 2009
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