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From: Mercury on 2 Apr 2008 18:44

"Rich" <rgsrx(a)cox.net> wrote in message
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> booting. Next, I removed the card, connected the monitor to on-board
> connector, booted into XP no problem & went into the device manager &
> disable the on-board video setting & shut the system down. I re-installed
> the Radeon, connected the monitor & turned the computer on & it booted
> fine all the way to XP. I went to device manager & find only the disabled
> on-board video device listed!

So, did you just disable it or did you *remove* it? (Right click the device
> Uninstall)
You're supposed to remove it.


From: Rich on 3 Apr 2008 01:18
I just disabled it. Inasmuch as this was my wife's computer & I was trying
this late at night without her knowledge, I didn't want to go past the point
of no return. I was afraid that if I uninstalled it & still couldn't get the
new card to work, I would need the drivers to get on-board video to work
again. I may or may not have been able to find the EMachine disk which I
think is just a system restore disk. The video drivers may be on her hard
drive in a separate partition. At my job they installed new video cards in
all their Dell Inspirons when they upgraded to Windows XP. I noticed that
they simply had disabled on-board video which had given me the idea to try
that. I "chatted" on-line with eMachines tonight & was told that the Radeon
was not compatable. I asked about a PCI PNY card I had & was told it also
would not work. When asking for a link of compatable video cards I was given
a link to Gateway's on-line store to one AGP card for sale. It was a PNY
Nvidia card. Now I wonder why he said the older PNY card wouldn't work. I
may give it a try anyway.
Maybe I'll try uninstalling the on-board graphics once I locate the drivers
& save them. However, now that I think of it, if I uninstall on-board
graphics & a new card won't work, I would imagine they would re-install
atomatically after I removed the card & rebooted.
Thanks for reading my post.
Rich
"Mercury" <nobody(a)nospam.null> wrote in message
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>
> "Rich" <rgsrx(a)cox.net> wrote in message
> news:nzVHj.784$xd5.687(a)newsfe17.phx...
>> booting. Next, I removed the card, connected the monitor to on-board
>> connector, booted into XP no problem & went into the device manager &
>> disable the on-board video setting & shut the system down. I re-installed
>> the Radeon, connected the monitor & turned the computer on & it booted
>> fine all the way to XP. I went to device manager & find only the disabled
>> on-board video device listed!
>
> So, did you just disable it or did you *remove* it? (Right click the
> device
> > Uninstall)
> You're supposed to remove it.
>


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