XP 64-bit Drivers on Windows 7 x64?

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My great-aunt-in-law has an ancient and horribly underperforming Dell Dimension E310 that is now my problem to fix up and get working at a decent speed (by her standards, not mine :D). The biggest problem is the pathetic 512 MB of RAM, which is easy enough to upgrade to 2 GB. The real question lies with the integrated GMA 900 graphics. I know Intel never made a WDDM driver for this particular IGP, but they did make drivers for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP. Having used 32-bit XP drivers on 7 before, I can say that that isn't a problem.

What about XP64 drivers? Will they work on a Windows 7 x64 installation the same way 32-bit XP drivers work on Win7x86?
 
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so,i take it that this is an old xp machine with win7 installed?if so does your graphics work at all?win xp 64bit was one of the buggiest os that microsoft ever put out and i wouldnt want to even try its drivers on win7.upgrade the ram and that is about all you can do.this is really old hardware and will never be really zippy.
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so,i take it that this is an old xp machine with win7 installed?if so does your graphics work at all?win xp 64bit was one of the buggiest os that microsoft ever put out and i wouldnt want to even try its drivers on win7.upgrade the ram and that is about all you can do.this is really old hardware and will never be really zippy.
 
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It is an XP machine, but Win7 hasn't been installed yet (it came to my house with 512MB of RAM and XP, lol). So the best option is upgrade to 2 or 4GB of RAM and install 32-bit Win7? I know Dell's official documentation says 2GB max RAM, but I've personally upgraded a machine of the same type to 4 gigs before without issue. I was hoping a Win7x64 would allow the use of the full 4GB, but if drivers aren't going to be stable then I'll steer clear of that.

Has anyone actually tried this before? :??:
 
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I've successfully installed XP drivers for the even older Extreme Graphics IGP on Win7 before, so I'm pretty confident that it will work. Granted, I can't figure out how to tell Windows where the OpenGL ICD is (the driver didn't do that by itself), but everything else works.
 
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depending on your processor manufacturing date it could be 64bit compatible,in which case i would install win7 64 bit.windows should be able to find generic drivers for the hardware.keep in mind win7 64 bit is nothing like xp64bit.

 
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