Old computer old graphics card open Windows 7 Aero special effects

The author purchased the Founder R350 notebook in 2006, standard with the Celeron-M370 processor, 512MB memory, 60GB hard drive, pre-installed Windows XP system, recently upgraded the memory to 1GB, and replaced the 160GB hard drive, so modified Windows 7, after installing Windows 7, the font display is blurred, the picture is not clear, but after the transformation, the author not only solves the resolution display problem, but also opens the Aero advanced special effects.

Let the resolution display properly

After careful analysis, this is because there is no graphics card driver installed, this notebook uses ATI Xpress 200M integrated graphics, but can not find online Windows 7 version of the graphics card driver, although the XP version of the graphics card driver in the CD-ROM can be forcibly installed, but the resolution can only be adjusted to 1024 × 768 after installation, and the standard resolution of the notebook screen is 1280 × 768, for this screen display Still not normal, and playing games, watching videos will be stuck or even crash.

After several days of online search, I finally found a solution to solve the resolution display method. The method is to log in to the official website of Founder, download the desktop version of ATI Xpress 200M graphics driver, and after executing the installation program, select the driver file to extract the directory. And cancel the installation process, download and run the DH Mobility Modder.Net software, click the "Browse" button to select the driver file decompression directory, click the "Modify" button to modify the driver.

Enter the driver file decompression directory, execute the Setup.exe program, and then install the driver according to the prompts. After restarting the system, enter the "screen resolution" interface, you can find the resolution value of 1280 × 768. After the adjustment is completed, the font and picture display everything is normal, and playing games and watching movies will not be stuck, but it cannot be When you turn on Aero advanced effects, such as when you enter the Taskbar properties window, Use Aero Peek to preview the desktop is grayed out.

Open Aero Advanced Effects

Under the query, although the ATI Xpress 200M graphics card supports DirectX 9 specifications and supports Aero advanced effects, in order to support USB keyboard and USB mouse under DOS, the motherboard BiOS often has a built-in "Legacy USB Support" option, which is set to on by default, but on Windows, turning this option on will have an impact on the performance of the graphics driver, which may be the reason why the advanced effects of Aero cannot be turned on.

Therefore restart the notebook to enter the BiOS settings interface, find "Legacy USB Support" under the "Advanced" tab, set it to "Disabled" (Figure 2), and make sure the "QuIEt Boot" option is "Enabled". "Status, save and log out of Windows 7, then finally open the Aero advanced effects, unfortunately, after restarting the system, Aero advanced effects can not be started, restart the system can be turned on again, always capricious.

Because you find the data, you must know that you must always enable the Aero advanced effects, you must ensure that the graphics card memory capacity is above 128MB, but by default, the notebook graphics card automatically adjusts the memory capacity according to the actual load. Therefore, you need to enter the BiOS settings interface. Under the “Advenced” tab, set the “UMA Frame Buffer Size” to 128MB. The other options for the graphics card parameters are set to “Disabled”. After saving and exiting, the Aero advanced effects are always in the Open state (Figure 3).

You can try it out, the culprit, or you have to do it through BiOS settings!