NC6120 Display Driver for Win10 - Intel 915GM

[DrtyBlvd]

HP nc6120 - struggling to install display driver for intel 915Gm on  *Windows 10*

Hi-

I am having the above problem - and, despite trying suggestions that suited Win7 & 8, I simply can't get the driver to install - hs anyone managed to accomplish this or does anyone have any further ideas that might help at all?

Laptop works great with 10, except for the lack of 'sleep' option - which is a nightmare - hence needing the display driver from whence it stems, apparently?

Despite trying different compatiblity settings, from XP to 8, none work and the instal bjorks with a 'not supported' error; I can't see how to avaoid this 😞

Any assistence greatfully received -

db

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

The only suggestion I can offer would be this...

Download and run this Vista driver.  You will get an unsupported operating system error.  Close out of any error windows.

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp34501-35000/sp34749.exe

Go to the device manager and click to expand the Display Adapters category. Click on the Microsoft Basic Display  Adapter.

Click on the driver tab. Click on Update Driver.  Select the Browse my computer for driver software method, and then at the bottom of that window, select the Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.

Click on Have Disk and browse to:   C:\SWSetup\sp34749\Graphics\igxp32 and select the Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family graphics adapter from the list, and see if the driver installs that way.

Then reboot.

If that doesn't work, nothing will.

[DrtyBlvd]

Nope, no joy 😞

Just crashes out with an 'unsupported' error... Looks like it might be a "roll"back to Win7 thing then.

[ARPcPro]

Hi,

You have a better driver that you can try. It is the MS basic display driver tweaked for our custom resolutions. Check this: GitHub - ywjheart/basic_adapter_driver_modification: BasicAdapterDriver Modification

Probably we need to change boot to start win10 always with testmode ON to allow unassigned drivers, but that doesn't cause any performance impact.

I'm just not satisfied about accelleration capabilities. On win10 with the MS basic display driver on my 915GM, the youtube videos seem to have less quality than on win7, at least on 360p.

But please test and let me know your feedback. For me win10 is much faster and more performant on my Pentium M740, but since the video quality is worse I suspect I will rollback to win7.

[WAWood]

There's a  basic reason why the Intel 915GM driver will not work on Win10 -- MS removed the code to support it!

That driver was released back in the old days as an XPDM driver.

This worked fine up through Win7 because MS retained support for the old XPDM drivers while also supporting the new WDDM drivers.

Then with Win8, MS removed the code from the kernel to support XPDM drivers.  I found this out the hard way when I tried to update an old XP-era PC using a 915GM to Win8 and the drivers would not load -- anymore.

Sorry, but that driver's usefulness ended with Win7.

[akbar1338]

NC6120 Display Driver for Win10 - Intel 915GM

[WAWood]

@akbar1338

Please go back and read what I said -- there is NO driver that works in Windows 8 or newer due to Microsoft removing the code from Windows to support the older XPDM drivers.