Firstly, no worries about the delay; I think there is a time-zone difference between us anyway.
In order from yr suggestions:
1)Intel Instructions: Graphics Accelerator: Rt click on the desktop does not deliver a Graphics Properties option. However, it doesn't do that on my 32-bit XP desktop machine either - however it has ATI catalyst control centre installed though, so perhaps that overwrites it ?
Device manager: as reported last night, it does not appear to have an INtel graphics driver/controller installed - despite my attempting to do this (more than once).
(My personnal gripe is that almost all the downloads are self-installing .exe files - all I can do is run it and hope, rather than it being a specific (list of) driver files to which I could point the device manager file update option and see what happened. I should also mention that I have run Driver Detective on my laptop know, and although it found a few updates,and identified the same problem with video controller, it could not fix it.
However - I have just had one "last" try at downloading the latest driver from the Intel site. It wants a reboot after installing, so I'll have to send this this note before knowing what has happened !
Pls find below the full listing from cpuz....sorry its long, but it will save time if there is anything else to check on. The chipset is GL960, which matches the Intel spec sheet for driver. here's hoping !
Tx
Nick
Processor(s)
Number of processors 1
Number of cores 2 per processor
Number of threads 2 per processor
Name Intel Pentium T2330
Code Name Merom
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60GHz
Package Socket P (478)
Family/Model/Stepping 6.F.D
Extended Family/Model 6.F
Core Stepping M0
Technology 65 nm
Core Speed 798.0 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 6.0 x 133.0 MHz
Rated Bus speed 532.0 MHz
Stock frequency 1600 MHz
Instruction sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T
L1 Data cache (per processor) 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache (per processor) 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache (per processor) 1024 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Chipset & Memory
Northbridge Intel GL960 rev. C0
Southbridge Intel 82801HBM (ICH8-ME) rev. 03
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 2048 MBytes
Memory Frequency 266.0 MHz (1:2)
CAS# Latency (tCL) 4.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRCD) 4 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 4 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 12 clocks
System
System Manufacturer Sony Corporation
System Name VGN-NR21J_S
System S/N 28272150-5005833
Mainboard Vendor Sony Corporation
Mainboard Model VAIO
BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD
BIOS Version R1101J9
BIOS Date 10/23/2007
Memory SPD
Module 1 DDR2, PC2-5300 (333 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Hyundai Electronics
Module 2 DDR2, PC2-5300 (333 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Hyundai Electronics
Software
Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP x64 Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 3790)
DirectX Version 9.0c
