need display drvr Intel gs45 express, i3 ulv

hi friends
i have a dell inspiron with the gs45 chipset, as best I can tell.. model is a variant of the inspiron 1121; m101z, some form of intel hd embedded graphics part. don't know the exact nomenclature as have not been able to find yet.
win7 x64. everything works sorta, except HDMI, which is a big deal to me.
won't have a device without from here on.

the dell website only shows driver from earlier 2011. their tech support not much help.
anyone know of a much later, i.e. 2012

 

no offense taken. if they didn't intend for it to work they shouldn't put the physical feature on it.
I spent WAY too long with dell support on chat today and the very unqualified rep, and his manager, were both baffled. had no clue how to debug.
I got this one for this reason, to see how it stacks up against my thinkpad x120e. other than the fact that it doesn't work :-D it stacks up ok in other areas.... but I sure wouldn't swap. ATI Radeon spoilt me

unfortunate that the link is x86, not x64

thx

 

According to here, its a re-badged Dell Inspiron 1121.

http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/22

 

yep, had that.

Got it sorta limping along with this one: Win7Vista_64_152254
For some reason would not load the Windows 8 driver set just released.

I had to force uninstall the video adapter, a step I did not think would matter, reboot, thankfully win7 picked up generic vga driver. Then I was able to point it to the above.

is this hdwe or software or firmware: the clumsy steps necessary are that when I flip the mode switch to any of the three settings other than default/onboard display, I have to turn off the monitor [this is a good one... asus vh226] and power back on. similarly, If I log out and back in, same drill, and if I Restart, the onboard display will blank at the appropriate point but again, will not sync unless I reset. This is not true of my other two notebooks [one thinkpad x120e/ati and the other an older asus with gforce 9600gs]. This will not be possible to use with one of my other displays, a samsung ips 26", because it has a way-short timeout... like you gotta get sync'd in about two seconds flat or it reverts. i can't make my hands work that fast.

amazing that a company as rich as intel cannot get out of the primitive stage in this game. I SURE hope AMD are paying that ATI crowd handsomely.

any other suggestions?

 

For the GS45, I only found this intel driver for 64bit. Maybe run the chipset software but doubt that would help. Other than that, I can't come up with anything else.

 

thanks, but that is apparently older than what I patched with, per my reply.
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