Performance Rating Tool And Aero, PLEASE HELP

[Guest]

My Laptop (Inspiron 6000) Fully Supports Every Feature Of Vista, Including
Aero. It Exceeds it infact. The problem is, that when the Performance Rating
Tool Scans My Computer, It Determines That Some Of My Drivers For My Chipset
Slow Down My Boot Time, And Sleep Resume Time. When This Low Score Averages
With My High Hardware Scores, It Averages To An Overall Rating Of "2". Which
Vista Determines Can't Run AERO. I Know It Can, But If Someone Found Drivers
I Didn't, Or A Way To Enable AERO Anyway, Plz Let Me Know, Even If You Don't
Know If It Will Work.
Thanks

System Specs:
Intel Celeron M Processor
Graphics: Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Chipset Family (128 mb)
512 RAM

Thanks Again

 

[Tom Ziegmann]

In the system properties click the link that says something to the effect
of 'There are some startup programs causing your computer to slow down' then
when the dialog box comes up click the checkbox in the left hand corner that
says 'I have resolved these issues'

 

[Bones]

Even if you get a 2 rating, you should still be able to enable aero if your
video driver supports it.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Yep, *as long* as you can support WDDM drivers, it doesn't even matter if
you've got 256MB memory on your computer! ) All you need is the WDDM
drivers!

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[Guest]

thanks guys, i can't find a driver for a Intel Mobile 915GM Express Chipset
Family Card That Is WDDM

if you have one, could you e-mail me a link (e-mail address removed) or post a link
much appreciated

 

[Guest]

hello -

you have to remember that drivers, in general, for specific hardware MAY NOT
BE compatable with vista. So lot of dell devices may just sit and be forced
to wait for drivers. Luckily, sound and video card manufactureres are making
vista drivers (even for beta 1, its works) so important things are fine.

on WDDM - if Vista doesnt pick up the driver you need, then go to the
manufacturer's site (ATI or NVIDIA) and get the latest drivers. Aero will
work on most modern machines, even if its slow.

 

[Guest]

well, thats the thing. the card is made by INTEL and they haven't put out a
WDDM or vista driver. If there is anyway to get around the check or trick it
into thinking its WDDM that would work for now. just someway to get aero
working

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Hi Brendan09, Intel only supports the 945 Express Chipset at this time for
Vista AERO.
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[Guest]

Not to burst your bubble but everything I've seen says that you have to have
a 3 or higher to run Aero Glass. I have an Inspiron 6000 with 2 gig of
memory, but ivideo memory is shared on the mother board. And the video is
"pre-set at I believe 64 meg. Aero Glass needs 128 Meg to be activated and
show as available. So far I have not found a way to get the bios to use more
RAM for the video memoy. The BIOS do not allow you the option to increase the
video memory.

Mark

 

[Alan Simpson]

The performance rating has nothing to do with Aero Glass. It's all about the
card on that. Specs are here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx

 

[Steve Urbach]

Not to burst your bubble but everything I've seen says that you have to have
a 3 or higher to run Aero Glass. I have an Inspiron 6000 with 2 gig of
memory, but ivideo memory is shared on the mother board. And the video is
"pre-set at I believe 64 meg. Aero Glass needs 128 Meg to be activated and
show as available. So far I have not found a way to get the bios to use more
RAM for the video memoy. The BIOS do not allow you the option to increase the
video memory.

Mark


:

Aero glass is running on my system rated _2_

Actually I am curious as the lowest score is 2.5

and the others are all above 3
(3.1, 3.3, 3.8, 2.5, 2.5)

 

[Guest]

Interesting. I am at 2.0 and Aero will not appear.

Inspiron 6000
2 gig RAM
100 Gig hard drive

Same chipset as above.

I would love to run Aero, any suggestions.

M

 

[Alan Simpson]

It's all in the graphics card, which you didn't mention. I think that's
covered at that same link:

www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx

 

[Steve Urbach]

Interesting. I am at 2.0 and Aero will not appear.

Inspiron 6000
2 gig RAM
100 Gig hard drive

Same chipset as above.

I would love to run Aero, any suggestions.

M

Nvidia FX 5200 128M onboard

my Getforce 2 MX400 64M would not even think about Aero ..
System only got a _1_

 

[William R. Mosher]

What video card do you have? You could have the fastest processor, the most RAM, the largest and fastest hard drives and if you have a video card that does not support Aero Glass, then you will not have it.

At least we have not seen anyone posting nonsense like, ' Gee, I pulled the Hercules video card out of my old XT compatible and put it in my new PC and now I cannot get glass from Vista. It ran my green screen monochrome monitor fine on my XT. Is it a problem with Vista?'

William
Interesting. I am at 2.0 and Aero will not appear.

Inspiron 6000
2 gig RAM
100 Gig hard drive

Same chipset as above.

I would love to run Aero, any suggestions.

M

 

[William R. Mosher]

I have an Nvidia GeForce FX5200 and I had glass from the first install of Vista.

William

Interesting. I am at 2.0 and Aero will not appear.

Inspiron 6000
2 gig RAM
100 Gig hard drive

Same chipset as above.

I would love to run Aero, any suggestions.

M

Nvidia FX 5200 128M onboard

my Getforce 2 MX400 64M would not even think about Aero ..
System only got a _1_

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

Wait. It's coming...

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Keeping the fun in dysfunctional!

What video card do you have? You could have the fastest processor, the most
RAM, the largest and fastest hard drives and if you have a video card that
does not support Aero Glass, then you will not have it.

At least we have not seen anyone posting nonsense like, ' Gee, I pulled the
Hercules video card out of my old XT compatible and put it in my new PC and
now I cannot get glass from Vista. It ran my green screen monochrome monitor
fine on my XT. Is it a problem with Vista?'

William

 

[Guest]

If he has the same as mine it is a:

Intergrated Graphics - Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS 910 GML Express Chipset.

Mark