More on IGP 340m...stable, working drivers?

kylezo

Hello, everyone. I am using a Compaq Presario 2100 with the IGP 340M chip. My troubles started when trying to run Diablo 2. I basically rolled back my drivers and eventually got DirectX Acceleration and Direct3d working again (still not sure why they stopped) and the game was working fine. However now I can't seem to get fullscreen video playback to work on media files. I am not looking to mod my card or drivers, max out performance, or anything like that. I just want stable drivers that will work for my display. I tried installing the softpaq for my computer listed in the support section of my manufacturers website, and when the installer gets to the end it tells me that 'setup failed' because I have to install a standard VGA display adapter? I tried reading through the 9 million page EPIC LEGACY thread but I can't find what I am looking for. It's extremely complicated. All I am looking for are working drivers. I am obviously desperate since I am going to HPs website to use their reccommended drivers, but even that isn't working. I used driver cleaner pro on my last install but I still can't seem to get things up and running (although the game is still working, go figure).

Sorry I didn't look through the sticky thread enough to help myself, but I have literally been at this for 6 hours and I just want a simple solution, not a max performance hack.

Thanks!



UPDATE:

Since there has been no response yet, I have taken more time to search through the EPIC thread. I did find this post by Randomness (#154 http://www.hardwareheaven.com/952387-post154.html ) Which outlines a simple procedure for cleaning out old driver junk and reinstalling the clean version of 5.13b which needs no modding and since I don't need overlay for DVDs, will play video and games well. So I downloaded the pack as linked in the post, followed instructions exactly, even going so far as to use DriverCleaner Pro in safe mode the first time just in case. Well when I got around to exeuting the driver install setup program everything went just fine until the end when I got the exact same error message: "Please try to install drivers for a standard VGA display" or something to that effect. So I tried to install the .inf file manually by going into Device Manager > Update Driver > Specific Location > Have Disk > .inf file in question. Which worked fine until the end when I got the same error message. In addition, when I clicked on 'details' it showed me "Access Denied".

So THEN I shut down, booted into safe mode, logged on as Administrator, and started up the installer program. Same error message, with the addition of a new error message, and forgive me but I can't remember - it mentioned something about a problem with the .inf. Anyways, so I tried to go into device manager to install manually again, same exact procedure. This time I got the same exact result, again. So hopefully I will get some help from some of you helpful folk soon, if there are any ideas or solutions out there - in the meantime I will search on this error message.

Thanks again.



-----ANOTHER NEW UPDATE-----

I think I kind of fixed the permissions problem. I found a solution here: cannot install device drivers - access is denied - Windows BBS and here: Access Denied. Driver Wont Install and here: Windows XP Home Edition ACCESS IS DENIED! - TechSpot OpenBoards.

The procedure I used is as follows, in case anyone is interested in the fix I used for the access denied / permissions problem installing a driver. This is the procedure for XP Home; other OS procedure vary slightly but not much.

-Click Start
-Click Run
-Type in "regedt32.exe" that's right, no i, and NOT "regedit.exe"
-Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and expand by double clicking or clicking the +
-Right click on SOFTWARE and then click on Permissions
-Click on Everyone
-Check the box that says "Full Control"
-Click Apply
-Click Advanced
-Highlight "Everyone"
-Click Edit
-Check the box that says "Full Control" and click OK
-Now back in the Advanced Security Settings window, click Apply
-I was not prepared for the permissions settings to take so long, so don't get worried till around the 10 minute mark, it takes a while.
-When it is done, you will now check the box that says "Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects"
-Click OK
-You may now get a warning message: "This will remove explicitly defined permissions...etc." Click Yes.
-This, too, will take a good deal of time
-When it is through, click OK
-Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG and right click
-Click Permissions
-Follow the same procedure as above
-In my experience setting CURRENT_CONFIG permissions did not take as long
-At this point I was able to install the drivers on my own system. What a relief. I have no idea why this happened, and if anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them. All I know is I think I didn't have permission to write to the registry or the System32 folder or something, EVEN THOUGH I used an administrator account in Safe Mode, no less.

There may be an easier way to do this, but I don't know it. I am just glad I got my drivers installed finally, everything is working with Catalyst 5.13b.

EXCEPT....

Catalyst Control Center will not start.

I initally had problems with the .NET framework initializing and the program would not load at all.

I downloaded .NET 2.0 framework from Microsofts' website. This solved the problem.

At this point I tried to open CCC.

The splash screen appeared and the program never opened.

It still hasn't opened and I have applied many fixes that I read about: allowed the CLi.exe program in my Windows SP2 firewall explicitly; went to Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Microsoft .Net Framework Configuration > Expanded My Computer and clicked on Runtime Security Policy > Adjust Zone Security > Make Changes to this Computer > Set Defaults on all zones manually.

I also tried increasing to Full Trust on all zones. Probably a bad idea; didn't work anyways.

I don't remember what else I tried. It still stays on the splash screen with multiple instances of CLi.exe running (which I understand should be normal).


I would really like to get this working since I have been slaving over it for like 18 hours, slight exaggeration but sadly not much.

I stayed up till 6:30 AM working on this and woke up again at 10:45. Went back to sleep though ;-)

Please, any solutions? I have been searching but found nothing really. I am going to install Control Panel instead next, even though I understand it is not as good. It will still be better than this crap.

Thanks again.