aero intel 82915g gv 910gl express chipset fails work

In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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I have mine working and I suggest that you do the following. You need to download and install the 4543 driver dated 3/23/06 for your 82945 Graphics chip from the Intel Website. You also may need to update your BIOS (I did) and you need to allocate 128MB of main memory to your graphics chip from the BIOS. I also needed to upgrade from 512MB of main memory to 1GB but I have heard that this may not be required but at the moment I don't know a workaround. After all is done you may not be impressed with Glass since the content part of a Web page is not done with Glass just the borders.
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In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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I have mine working and I suggest that you do the following. You need to install the LakeaPort drives for your 82945G Graphics chip look for them on the Intel Website, mine are the 4349 version dated 5/2/2006. They might also have been installed on your Vista system by WinUpdate. So you might just try having Vista search for drivers on your system disk using device manager You also may need to update your BIOS (I did) and you need to allocate 128MB of main memory to your graphics chip from the BIOS. I also needed to upgrade from 512MB of main memory to 1GB but I have heard that this may not be required but at the moment I don't know a workaround. After all is done you may not be impressed with Glass since the content part of a Web page is not done with Glass just the borders.
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In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message

In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message

There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message

Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message

Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote:

I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message

It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message

I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message

No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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I don't know what you are talking about. I re-read the whole thread and see no mention of 915 or 945 video except in one post which my post was trying to correct. I do see "INTEL 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset" and "82945G Graphics chip" as well as "Intel 915 chipset" and "Intel 945 chipset", all of which exist. As far as I know the 915 chipset is Vista capable but there are no wddm drivers for the GMA 900 graphics yet. This means it does not currently support Aero Glass. I hope this situation changes as one of my computers has this chipset and I hope to upgrade it to Vista once the RTM release is out.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message

No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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Not sure how I can explain it. The 9xx series chipsets have integrated video, either GMA900 or 950.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message

I don't know what you are talking about. I re-read the whole thread and see no mention of 915 or 945 video except in one post which my post was trying to correct. I do see "INTEL 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset" and "82945G Graphics chip" as well as "Intel 915 chipset" and "Intel 945 chipset", all of which exist. As far as I know the 915 chipset is Vista capable but there are no wddm drivers for the GMA 900 graphics yet. This means it does not currently support Aero Glass. I hope this situation changes as one of my computers has this chipset and I hope to upgrade it to Vista once the RTM release is out.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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I don't know how many time I have to say the same thing and it is really what the OP said in his first post and is the subject of this thread. If you have have the Intel 950/915 video support on your MOBO and you go to device manager (like I have on my MOBO 915/950 )you will hopefully find that the actual graphics chip that is on your system is the 82945G chip. It is certainly not a 910 or the 950 graphics chip since AFAIK there is no such thing. So all of you that have 950/915 grahics on your MOBO like I do and who find in Devide Manager that the actual graphics chip is other than the 92945G chip I wish you would state what you have instead of guesing what it is. "Tom Scales" wrote in message

Not sure how I can explain it. The 9xx series chipsets have integrated video, either GMA900 or 950.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message I don't know what you are talking about. I re-read the whole thread and see no mention of 915 or 945 video except in one post which my post was trying to correct. I do see "INTEL 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset" and "82945G Graphics chip" as well as "Intel 915 chipset" and "Intel 945 chipset", all of which exist. As far as I know the 915 chipset is Vista capable but there are no wddm drivers for the GMA 900 graphics yet. This means it does not currently support Aero Glass. I hope this situation changes as one of my computers has this chipset and I hope to upgrade it to Vista once the RTM release is out.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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Exactly what I just said. The 915 chipset motherboards have the GMA 900 graphics. Aero Glass does not work with GMA 900 as there are no wddm drivers. Vista works just fine.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message

Not sure how I can explain it. The 9xx series chipsets have integrated video, either GMA900 or 950.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message I don't know what you are talking about. I re-read the whole thread and see no mention of 915 or 945 video except in one post which my post was trying to correct. I do see "INTEL 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset" and "82945G Graphics chip" as well as "Intel 915 chipset" and "Intel 945 chipset", all of which exist. As far as I know the 915 chipset is Vista capable but there are no wddm drivers for the GMA 900 graphics yet. This means it does not currently support Aero Glass. I hope this situation changes as one of my computers has this chipset and I hope to upgrade it to Vista once the RTM release is out.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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Read the subject of the posts. That is what the GMA 900 (graphic subsystem of Intel 915 chipsets) shows up as in Device manager. The OP's on board graphics does not support Aero Glass.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
"JW" wrote in message

I don't know how many time I have to say the same thing and it is really what the OP said in his first post and is the subject of this thread. If you have have the Intel 950/915 video support on your MOBO and you go to device manager (like I have on my MOBO 915/950 )you will hopefully find that the actual graphics chip that is on your system is the 82945G chip. It is certainly not a 910 or the 950 graphics chip since AFAIK there is no such thing. So all of you that have 950/915 grahics on your MOBO like I do and who find in Devide Manager that the actual graphics chip is other than the 92945G chip I wish you would state what you have instead of guesing what it is. "Tom Scales" wrote in message Not sure how I can explain it. The 9xx series chipsets have integrated video, either GMA900 or 950.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message I don't know what you are talking about. I re-read the whole thread and see no mention of 915 or 945 video except in one post which my post was trying to correct. I do see "INTEL 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset" and "82945G Graphics chip" as well as "Intel 915 chipset" and "Intel 945 chipset", all of which exist. As far as I know the 915 chipset is Vista capable but there are no wddm drivers for the GMA 900 graphics yet. This means it does not currently support Aero Glass. I hope this situation changes as one of my computers has this chipset and I hope to upgrade it to Vista once the RTM release is out.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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I apoligize to all for my mistake and stubbordness I kept reading 82915G as 82945G.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message

Exactly what I just said. The 915 chipset motherboards have the GMA 900 graphics. Aero Glass does not work with GMA 900 as there are no wddm drivers. Vista works just fine.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message Not sure how I can explain it. The 9xx series chipsets have integrated video, either GMA900 or 950.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message I don't know what you are talking about. I re-read the whole thread and see no mention of 915 or 945 video except in one post which my post was trying to correct. I do see "INTEL 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset" and "82945G Graphics chip" as well as "Intel 915 chipset" and "Intel 945 chipset", all of which exist. As far as I know the 915 chipset is Vista capable but there are no wddm drivers for the GMA 900 graphics yet. This means it does not currently support Aero Glass. I hope this situation changes as one of my computers has this chipset and I hope to upgrade it to Vista once the RTM release is out.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard.
-- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor.
At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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No problem. I wouldn't have been so emphatic in correcting you if not for search engines indexing the news groups. Many people will be searching for Vista drivers and may get wrong info.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote:

I apoligize to all for my mistake and stubbordness I kept reading 82915G as 82945G.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message Exactly what I just said. The 915 chipset motherboards have the GMA 900 graphics. Aero Glass does not work with GMA 900 as there are no wddm drivers. Vista works just fine.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message Not sure how I can explain it. The 9xx series chipsets have integrated video, either GMA900 or 950.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message I don't know what you are talking about. I re-read the whole thread and see no mention of 915 or 945 video except in one post which my post was trying to correct. I do see "INTEL 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset" and "82945G Graphics chip" as well as "Intel 915 chipset" and "Intel 945 chipset", all of which exist. As far as I know the 915 chipset is Vista capable but there are no wddm drivers for the GMA 900 graphics yet. This means it does not currently support Aero Glass. I hope this situation changes as one of my computers has this chipset and I hope to upgrade it to Vista once the RTM release is out. -- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User "Tom Scales" wrote in message No, its not.
The 915 MOTHERBOARD chipset includes GMA900 DX9 compatible video. The 945 includes GMA950 DX9 compatible video.
There is no such thing as 915 or 945 video.
Both the 900 and 950 are Aero compatible with the proper drivers.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/express_flyer.htm
or more importantly
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915g/
which includes the statement:
Intel® 915 Express Chipset family platforms using 512 MB of system memory or more meet all current requirements for the Microsoft Windows Vista* Capable PC program.
Not sure why so many people are having trouble understanding this.
Tom

"Kerry Brown" wrote in message No you don't understand. Read the subject line. It does not mention 82945G anywhere. The OP has an Intel 915 chipset motherboard which is very different from an Intel 945 chipset motherboard. -- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca

"JW" wrote in message I know that is what I was trying to make Reed(MVP) understand. "Kerry Brown" wrote in message It's in the title of every post in the thread.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
JW wrote: I never heard of anything called the 915 Graphics chip. My MOBO has the 915/950 driver system of which the 82945G Graphics chip is one part. The OP has to check with device manager to see what actual graphics chip he is using
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message Fortunately, your system uses the 945 chipset. Intel has told us that there will be no Aero-capable driver support for the 915G, which is what the OP apparently has.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"JW" wrote in message Today I resinstalled Vista Beta 2 on a reformatted disk partition due to problems I was having with my tuner card. During the installation I asked it to install any updated drivers available over the Internet. When the installation was complete my system came up immediatly with Glass using the latest Glass Lakeport drivers available from Intel for my 945G chipset which is the graphics chip that is part ot the 915/950 graphics capable Intel MOBO. I did not have to do anything to make it happen since the latest Beta 2 updates apparently contain the latest Vista Beta2 945G graphic drivers from Intel. So that makes it sound like the Upgrade Advisor is correct if used only with a new installation and not one from a couple of weeks ago.
"Reed [MVP]" wrote in message There was a bug in a previous version of Upgrade Advisor that, under some circumstances, would incorrectly report that systems with the Intel 915 graphics chip set were Aero-capable. This is fixed in the latest version of Upgrade Advisor. At this time there the "official" word from Intel is that the 915 chip set and driver will not support Aero.
-Reed Rinn MVP Shell / User
"AJT" wrote in message In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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Hi,
If you are using Intel 915 chipset without aonther graphic chipset onboard, goto http://www.petitiononline.com/intel915/petition.html and sign it. The owner of petition will send this list to Intel that we are in trouble.
Cheers, Pound@Gestalt
"AJT" wrote:

In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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The following Link explains why the 915 does not support Aero.
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-023606.htm
"Teeravee Sirinapasawasdee" wrote in message

Hi,
If you are using Intel 915 chipset without aonther graphic chipset onboard, goto http://www.petitiononline.com/intel915/petition.html and sign it. The owner of petition will send this list to Intel that we are in trouble.
Cheers, Pound@Gestalt
"AJT" wrote:
In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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If anyone knows the website for the 82915g graphics card vista drivers please post a comment about the website.
"AJT" wrote:

In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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The article from the Intel Website I believe discusses your issue.
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-023606.htm
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If anyone knows the website for the 82915g graphics card vista drivers please post a comment about the website.
"AJT" wrote:
In spite of the "Upgrade Adviser" advising that my system and the abovementioned display adapter would support AERO AND that an upgraded display adapter device driver would be available on installing Vista, I see (1) that I cannot activete the transparency effects (the GUI just freezes) and (2) Vista tells me that a driver 6.14.10.4440 dated 2005/12/05 is the latest updated driver! What gives? This is clearly misrepresenting the facts. -- IT guy in South Africa
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