VIA chrome9 HC IGP WDDM driver update needed

[james_toon_army]

Originally Posted by boyblue

VIA Arena - Display Drivers for 32bit Vista.

Perfect, thank you

I should have said 32bit, but yea that is right, thank you

J.

[boyblue]

let us know how you get on.

[ad270186]

Hi.
I found this page looking for a driver for the same graphics card.
I have followed the link and got the driver.
Thanks.
But it hasn't fixed my problem with playing some computer games.
I was wondering is it possible to change my graphics card?
I don't know much about computers and am a bit spooked where it says intergrated.
This doesn't mean I'm stuck with this card forever does it?
I don't mind buying a new graphics card if it will fix the problem, but I need to know that it will fix the problem.
I was just wondering what would you suggest as a good graphics card, but at the same time, wasn't too costly.
I wasn't really planning on spending much more than £100 on one, but I would if needed.
I made a small YouTube video the other day asking for people's advice.
On it, it has examples of gameplay from The Sims 2 and World of Warcraft.
Have a quick look if you want to see what I have to put up with.
YouTube - I hate myself, because I'm a PC
I have been told by people it is my graphics card, and people have suggested such cards as Sapphire and ATI.
Also I have Vista and on a rating for my graphics, it gave me 1.0.
Hope you can help.
Thanks.
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[Mr. Chris]

Having integrated graphics does not mean you are stuck with it, unless you have a Pico ITX board or similar that doesn't have any expansion slots. Since you didn't tell us what the make or model of your board is, I don't know what your particular board has.

Presuming you have at least an AGP slot, and even better, a PCI-E slot, there are literally hundreds of options for you to choose from to get a nice card that will allow you to play video games.

I prefer Nvidia based cards but the ATI based ones are good as well, just depends on your budget and what's available to you locally or Internet wise. ATI cards by Sapphire are good cards. I like Nvidia cards made by EVGA, but again it's a personal thing.

You must be somewhere in the UK, you use an example of Pounds as money, so I have no idea as to what prices video cards are in your part of the Globe, but L100 should get you a nice card. Time to do some shopping! Chris.

[ad270186]

My board is pretty much the same as the one described here (I think).
P4M900.
The exact ID is 12/30/2006-P4M900-8237A-6A7L8FKBC-00 if that helps.
Yeah I'm from the UK.
£100 is probably about $150.
Thanks for your advice.
Now I know what I'm looking for, lol.
Quick noob question though.
Is it a graphics card I need, or video card, or are they both the same thing?
Thanks again
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[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by ad270186

My board is pretty much the same as the one described here (I think).
P4M900.
The exact ID is 12/30/2006-P4M900-8237A-6A7L8FKBC-00 if that helps.
Yeah I'm from the UK.
£100 is probably about $150.
Thanks for your advice.
Now I know what I'm looking for, lol.
Quick noob question though.
Is it a graphics card I need, or video card, or are they both the same thing?
Thanks again
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graphics card and video card are the same thing. You should check if your motherboard has an AGP slot, or a PCI-Express x16 slot.

An agp slot looks like the brown one above the white slots in this picture:

A pci-express x16 slot looks like the black one in this picture:


Once you've determined that, you can begin looking for a graphics card.

[ad270186]

Sorry for the noob questions.
But now I know what I'm looking for, I can play video games the way they were meant to be played.
Thanks guys.
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[Mr. Chris]

Ha ha, the Nvidia slogan, "I can play video games the way they were meant to be played."

Just be sure, before you go shopping, to find out what type of expansion slot your board has. If you tell us the make and model of your board we can look it up and tell you for sure.

If you don't know that info, go to Majorgeeks.com and download Everest Home Edition. It's free. Run it and under the catagory of Motherboard Info, will tell you what expansion slots your board has. Chris.

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CPU Properties:
CPU Type Intel Celeron D, 3466 MHz
CPU Alias Cedar Mill
Instruction Set x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3
Original Clock 3466 MHz
L1 Trace Cache 12K Instructions
L1 Data Cache 16 KB
L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, ECC, ATC, Full-Speed)

CPU Manufacturer:
Company Name Intel Corporation
Product Information http://www.intel.com/products/browse/processor.htm

CPU Utilization:
CPU #1 0 %

CPUID Properties:
CPUID Manufacturer GenuineIntel
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.46GHz
CPUID Revision 00000F65h
IA Brand ID 00h (Unknown)
Platform ID 00h (Unknown)
IA CPU Serial Number Unknown
HTT / CMP Units 0 / 1

Instruction Set:
64-bit x86 Extension (AMD64, EM64T) Supported
Alternate Instruction Set Not Supported
AMD 3DNow! Not Supported
AMD 3DNow! Professional Not Supported
AMD Enhanced 3DNow! Not Supported
AMD Extended MMX Not Supported
Cyrix Extended MMX Not Supported
IA-64 Not Supported
IA MMX Supported
IA SSE Supported
IA SSE 2 Supported
IA SSE 3 Supported
CLFLUSH Instruction Supported
CMPXCHG8B Instruction Supported
CMPXCHG16B Instruction Supported
Conditional Move Instruction Supported
MONITOR / MWAIT Instruction Supported
RDTSCP Instruction Not Supported
SYSCALL / SYSRET Instruction Not Supported
SYSENTER / SYSEXIT Instruction Supported
VIA FEMMS Instruction Not Supported

Security Features:
Advanced Cryptography Engine (ACE) Not Supported
Data Execution Prevention (DEP, NX, EDB) Supported
Hardware Random Number Generator (RNG) Not Supported
Montgomery Multiplier & Hash Engine Not Supported
Processor Serial Number (PSN) Not Supported

Power Management Features:
Automatic Clock Control Supported
Enhanced Halt State (C1E) Not Supported
Enhanced SpeedStep Technology (EIST, ESS) Not Supported
Frequency ID Control Not Supported
LongRun Not Supported
LongRun Table Interface Not Supported
PowerSaver 1.0 Not Supported
PowerSaver 2.0 Not Supported
PowerSaver 3.0 Not Supported
Processor Duty Cycle Control Supported
Software Thermal Control Not Supported
Temperature Sensing Diode Not Supported
Thermal Monitor 1 Supported
Thermal Monitor 2 Not Supported
Thermal Monitoring Not Supported
Thermal Trip Not Supported
Voltage ID Control Not Supported

CPUID Features:
36-bit Page Size Extension Supported
Address Region Registers (ARR) Not Supported
CPL Qualified Debug Store Supported
Debug Trace Store Supported
Debugging Extension Supported
Fast Save & Restore Supported
Hyper-Threading Technology (HTT) Not Supported
L1 Context ID Supported
Local APIC On Chip Supported
Machine Check Architecture (MCA) Supported
Machine Check Exception (MCE) Supported
Memory Configuration Registers (MCR) Not Supported
Memory Type Range Registers (MTRR) Supported
Model Specific Registers (MSR) Supported
Page Attribute Table (PAT) Supported
Page Global Extension Supported
Page Size Extension (PSE) Supported
Pending Break Event Supported
Physical Address Extension (PAE) Supported
Secure Virtual Machine Extensions (Pacifica) Not Supported
Self-Snoop Supported
Time Stamp Counter (TSC) Supported
Virtual Machine Extensions (Vanderpool) Not Supported
Virtual Mode Extension Supported

CPUID Registers (CPU #1):
CPUID 00000000 00000006-756E6547-6C65746E-49656E69
CPUID 00000001 00000F65-00010800-0000E41D-BFEBFBFF
CPUID 00000002 605B5101-00000000-00000000-007B7040
CPUID 00000003 00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000
CPUID 00000004 00000121-01C0003F-0000001F-00000000
CPUID 00000005 00000040-00000040-00000000-00000000
CPUID 00000006 00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000
CPUID 80000000 80000008-00000000-00000000-00000000
CPUID 80000001 00000000-00000000-00000001-20100000
CPUID 80000002 20202020-20202020-20202020-6E492020
CPUID 80000003 286C6574-43202952-72656C65-52286E6F
CPUID 80000004 20442029-20555043-36342E33-007A4847
CPUID 80000005 00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000
CPUID 80000006 00000000-00000000-02006040-00000000
CPUID 80000007 00000000-00000000-00000000-00000000
CPUID 80000008 00003024-00000000-00000000-00000000

Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 12/30/2006-P4M900-8237A-6A7L8FKBC-00
Motherboard Name Unknown

Physical Memory:
Total 1469 MB
Used 726 MB
Free 743 MB
Utilization 49 %

Swap Space:
Total 3197 MB
Used 1077 MB
Free 2119 MB
Utilization 34 %

Virtual Memory:
Total 4667 MB
Used 1803 MB
Free 2863 MB
Utilization 39 %

Physical Address Extension (PAE):
Supported by Operating System Yes
Supported by CPU Yes
Active Yes

BIOS Properties:
BIOS Type Award
Award BIOS Type Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message P4M9007MB 683D3P12 123006
System BIOS Date 12/30/06
Video BIOS Date 11/22/06

BIOS Manufacturer:
Company Name Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Product Information Phoenix Technologies - Products
BIOS Upgrades BiosAgentPlus.com - biosagentplus.com -

Problems & Suggestions:
Suggestion Are you looking for a BIOS Upgrade? Contact eSupport Today!

Motherboard 12/30/2006-P4M900-8237A-6A7L8FKBC-00
Motherboard DMIMOBO: DIXONSXP P4M900-8237A
Motherboard DMISYS: DIXONSXP Ei 206
Motherboard P4M9007MB 683D3P12 123006
PCI/AGP 10EC-8139: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-0364: VIA Standard Host Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-0571: VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571 [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-1364: VIA Standard Host Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-2364: VIA Standard Host Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-287E: VIA Ultra VLINK Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-3038: VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-3104: VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-3288: High Definition Audio Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-3337: VIA Standard PCI to ISA Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-3364: VIA Standard Host Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-3371: VIA Chrome9 HC IGP Family WDDM [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-337A: VIA Standard PCI to PCI Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-337B: VIA Standard Host Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-4364: VIA Standard Host Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-5337: VIA Serial ATA Controller - 5337 [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-5364: VIA I/O APIC Interrupt Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-6364: VIA Security Device [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-7364: VIA Standard Host Bridge [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-A364: VIA PCI to PCI Bridge Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-B198: VIA CPU to AGP Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 1106-C364: VIA PCI to PCI Bridge Controller [NoDB]
PCI/AGP 11C1-5811: AGERE OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller [NoDB]



I didn't know what bit exactly to put in, so I just put up everything that came up when doing a quick report on the Motherboard. Hope this helps.
I should've done this at the begining, lol.
Thanks.
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[tcsenter]

Originally Posted by ad270186

Motherboard 12/30/2006-P4M900-8237A-6A7L8FKBC-00
Motherboard DMISYS: DIXONSXP Ei 206
Motherboard P4M9007MB 683D3P12 123006

Ei Systems Model E206 PC with a Foxconn P4M9007MB-8RS2H motherboard. Other than the BIOS being customized for EI Systems (e.g. Dixons, Currys), the motherboard is identical, so you can just refer to the Foxconn link for the best information.

This board will accept BIOS updates from Foxconn, but if EI/DIXONS uses OEM pre-activation in its customized BIOS, the Foxconn BIOS would not preserve this, resulting in Windows being de-activated. You can activate Windows by calling Microsoft Activation Support, but you would need to change the product key first to the key located on the COA sticker. Kind of a pain, but it can be done.

This board has PCI Express x16 (1.0) slot available but given the problems reported using PCI-E 2.0 graphics cards on VIA chipsets, it may be better to stick with previous generation PCI-E 1.0 cards. I actually have this motherboard (Foxconn branded) but I don't have any PCI-E 2.0 cards on-hand that I could verify. One unknown factor we need to consider is how much headroom your power supply has available. Being a low-cost system, the PSU will probably become the limiting factor before your £100 budget. Some options with low power consumption are:

NVIDIA GeForce 7300GS or 7300LE
ATI Radeon X1550

Any of which would be a huge improvement over the integrated graphics, though I'm not certain this level would be enough to play WOW at the performance you desire. Something in the range of ATI Radeon X1650 PRO would be better, though I'm not sure your PSU will be up for it.