Perry Harold
pharold at proftesting.com
Tue Jul 6 16:10:10 CDT 2004
Don't know. Tough to say with HP & Compaq. They do some things sometimes that others which are more mainstream don't. I would think that the driver allocates the memory. When the driver is disabled then the memory would be open to other uses. Perry Harold -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 3:23 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Onboard graphics cards I thought of that - would it stop the 8mb of RAM being used by the onboard card or not? That's the real reason I'm replacing it - the "new" card has 64mb... Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perry Harold" <pharold at proftesting.com> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:07 PM Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Onboard graphics cards In Device Manager you should be able to disable the internal display adapter. Install the new(old) one and it should be detected and a driver installed (assuming it's compatible with either) if it's recognized by XP or 2000 whichever OS you have. You may need to download a current driver for the card. Perry Harold -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:56 PM To: dba-tech Subject: [dba-Tech] Onboard graphics cards Hi all I took delivery of my new work pc today, a shiny new HP (bah!) with a P4 2.8 and 512mb RAM. The only problem it has is that it's got an onboard graphics card. I happen to have a spare one at home which I can take in and use (being the IT department does have some advantages) but I've never done the conversion from onboard to outboard graphics - how do I turn the onboard card off? I'm aware that it's probably different for different manufacturers, but I thought I'd ask, see if anyone had any thoughts... Jon _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com