I have an old Dell Inspiron 3000 which came with Windows XP. It's still quite decent, 3 GHz P4, 2 GB RAM.
I've installed Windows 7 RTM (x86) and the best resolution it will do is 640×480 with a generic driver.
It has an integrated Intel 8265G graphics card, and only PCI slots on the motherboard. I cannot stick another graphics card on it.
Can I get a working driver for Windows 7? Official Dell website only lists Windows XP drivers
Am I destined to have the suckiness of Windows XP on this computer forever?
Best Answer
I am putting this out there in case someone else runs into this issue.
The Intel chipset is on-board. I discovered the reason for the crappy resolution in Windows 7 was that the memory to share with the video card was set to 1 MB in the BIOS. I changed this to 8 MB (the maximum) and after the PC rebooted I was able to select a higher resolution.