Man of Honour
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Hi all,
I've inherited 2 old Celeron M (1.5 and 1.6Ghz) laptops. One works perfectly (with a loud fan, which I need to look at), the other needs an AC adapter and a new battery. However both boot up fine (using a spare HP adapter for the second one which does work, but fitting is loose).
I want to load Windows 7 on them, but Intel does not support the 915 graphics chipset in them for Windows 7. However there is a Vista driver, and one of them currently has Vista installed, but runs slowly even with tweaks, being a low-end machine. The other is running Windows 7, and even with a flaky graphics driver, runs much more smoothly. Ironically it's 100Mhz slower than the other with the same RAM.
The short of this is: Does anyone know where I can get a working driver for Windows 7? I've tried the Vista one, no dice, I've tried the XP driver, no dice. Windows 7 calls it a Standard VGA adapter, which has no acceleration so videos and flash don't work very well, nor do games.
I had read somewhere that there is a way to use the Vista driver, but I've tried numerous methods and none seem to work.
A Windows 8 guide might work as well, so feel free to fire those at me too.
I've inherited 2 old Celeron M (1.5 and 1.6Ghz) laptops. One works perfectly (with a loud fan, which I need to look at), the other needs an AC adapter and a new battery. However both boot up fine (using a spare HP adapter for the second one which does work, but fitting is loose).
I want to load Windows 7 on them, but Intel does not support the 915 graphics chipset in them for Windows 7. However there is a Vista driver, and one of them currently has Vista installed, but runs slowly even with tweaks, being a low-end machine. The other is running Windows 7, and even with a flaky graphics driver, runs much more smoothly. Ironically it's 100Mhz slower than the other with the same RAM.
The short of this is: Does anyone know where I can get a working driver for Windows 7? I've tried the Vista one, no dice, I've tried the XP driver, no dice. Windows 7 calls it a Standard VGA adapter, which has no acceleration so videos and flash don't work very well, nor do games.
I had read somewhere that there is a way to use the Vista driver, but I've tried numerous methods and none seem to work.
A Windows 8 guide might work as well, so feel free to fire those at me too.
