Atom N2600 Driver Help

[idata]

Hi all,

I bought an MSI Wind U180 netbook recently, as a replacement for my U130 that sadly gave up the ghost after two years of solid service. (I know netbooks aren't the "in thing," but I vastly prefer them to tablets.)

DXDiag tells me the processor inside is an Atom N2600, with 1.6Ghz @ 4 CPUs, (is that quad-core or am I reading this wrong?) However, the graphics driver is just Microsoft Basic Display Adaptor.

Now, this probably happened when I updated this thing to Windows 8, alongside installing an SSD, more RAM and a larger battery to make it more potent. It's worked beautifully, but I crashed into the typical problem with Windows 8 and netbooks - the resolution lockout Microsoft kindly added. However, the graphics utility has disappeared that I've been told would let me fudge the resolution a little to get Metro app to run when I need them. Also, Windows has set my resolution to 800*600, when it's capable of 1024*600, but no option for that exists.

Tried the automated driver finder thing on Intel's support page, and it just ticks over, searching but finding nothing. Manually searching gave me some drivers for the processor, but seemingly not the graphics drivers nor that utility that has a bunch of settings to customise resolution, multi-screening and such.

Anyway, TL;DR, Microsoft shafted netbook users, and I'd love if someone could help me out with getting this sorted. Apparently this chip has a GMA 945 in it? The drivers only seem to be compatible with W7, and give me "Minimum Requirements" errors saying my netbook isn't good enough.

Thanks for any and all help,

Lyn

[idata · Accepted solution]

Ah, well. Shows what an extra ten minutes on top of a few hours can do...

I have found a nicely up to date driver released March 26th, which might fix the issues I read about people having here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22633&keyword=gma+3600&DownloadType=Drivers&lang=eng Download Center

Turns out I was looking for the wrong driver! The N2600 uses the GMA 3600, not the 945. Oops! Still have to get to work screwing around an getting Metro apps to work, but that's another issue.

Sorry for wasting epaper typing this up, I'll leave the solution here in case someone needing of it stumbles across it.

Lyn.

[Kevin_M_Intel]

Hello Coffeegrunt,

I understand you are having problems with the resolution using your computer after upgrading the operating system to Windows* 8.

In regards to your question about the processor, it has 2 cores with 4 threads. You can check the processor information at the following link:

http://ark.intel.com/products/58916/Intel-Atom-Processor-N2600-1M-Cache-1_6-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/58916/Intel-Atom-Processor-N2600-1M-Cache-1_6-GHz

Please note that this computer comes with the Graphics controller GMA 3600. You can check this information under the website of the manufacturer of this product by accessing the following link:

http://www.msi.com/news-media/news/1367.html http://www.msi.com/news-media/news/1367.html

It is important to mention that we have a driver available for this controller but our driver is a generic driver. This is because we provide the hardware to the system manufacturers and they will create special software for their systems.

The driver we have available for this controller is for Windows* 7 32 Bit only. If you would like to download our generic driver, you can get it at the following link:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22633&lang=eng&OSVersion=Windows%207%20%2832-bit%29*&DownloadType=%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09Drivers%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09

Thanks.

[JOOO]

try this driver pack http://download.drp.su/DRPSu13-Full.torrent http://download.drp.su/DRPSu13-Full.torrent

[Clp]

http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php/8-news/24-intel-chipset Station-Drivers - Intel (Chipset)

I found this site with the drive of Atom z2760 (clove trail) and i saw that

the drive has de same names but i can´t install them.

Can someone mod this drive to work on GMA3600?

sorry for my english!!!