Hardware Profiles for 2 graphics cards
I've heard that some people have two graphics cards in their PC. How do
they select which one is operable and also prevent the two interfering with each other? I have an AGP graphics card in this PC (running WinME) and I have a PCI graphics card I want to put in and do some tinkering and comparisons. This is an old 500 Mhz PIII computer. The BIOS setup allows me to selectively enable/disable devices (such as a graphics card), but I also need to tell WinME which drivers to load and which not to load when it starts up. I've done things like that before using different Hardware Profiles in Windows98 (but I've never had two graphics cards in the same PC before). With the two HW profiles I could select which profile got used by having two sections in the CONFIG.SYS file with names that corresponded to the names of the HW Profiles. That way I got a boot menu that listed the two HW profiles to choose from. Windows98 was designed to work that way. That was before WinME. WinME doesn't allow you to customize CONFIG.SYS - so the boot menu thing isn't available. MY QUESTION: Has anyone here used HW profiles to make Windows choose between graphics cards? Do you have any tips or suggestions on the subject? Also, is there a way I can get some kind of boot menu where I can choose between the different HW profiles? |
Hardware Profiles for 2 graphics cards
Don't know if this will help resolve your issue but *maybe* a starting point
would be to take a look at the display.txt file in the windows folder (also at :-http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262924/en-us HTH and good luck Mart "Wrong Attitude" wrote in message ... I've heard that some people have two graphics cards in their PC. How do they select which one is operable and also prevent the two interfering with each other? I have an AGP graphics card in this PC (running WinME) and I have a PCI graphics card I want to put in and do some tinkering and comparisons. This is an old 500 Mhz PIII computer. The BIOS setup allows me to selectively enable/disable devices (such as a graphics card), but I also need to tell WinME which drivers to load and which not to load when it starts up. I've done things like that before using different Hardware Profiles in Windows98 (but I've never had two graphics cards in the same PC before). With the two HW profiles I could select which profile got used by having two sections in the CONFIG.SYS file with names that corresponded to the names of the HW Profiles. That way I got a boot menu that listed the two HW profiles to choose from. Windows98 was designed to work that way. That was before WinME. WinME doesn't allow you to customize CONFIG.SYS - so the boot menu thing isn't available. MY QUESTION: Has anyone here used HW profiles to make Windows choose between graphics cards? Do you have any tips or suggestions on the subject? Also, is there a way I can get some kind of boot menu where I can choose between the different HW profiles? |
Hardware Profiles for 2 graphics cards
OK. Thanks for the info.
Bill S. "Mart" wrote in message ... Don't know if this will help resolve your issue but *maybe* a starting point would be to take a look at the display.txt file in the windows folder (also at :-http://support.microsoft.com/kb/262924/en-us HTH and good luck Mart "Wrong Attitude" wrote in message ... I've heard that some people have two graphics cards in their PC. How do they select which one is operable and also prevent the two interfering with each other? I have an AGP graphics card in this PC (running WinME) and I have a PCI graphics card I want to put in and do some tinkering and comparisons. This is an old 500 Mhz PIII computer. The BIOS setup allows me to selectively enable/disable devices (such as a graphics card), but I also need to tell WinME which drivers to load and which not to load when it starts up. I've done things like that before using different Hardware Profiles in Windows98 (but I've never had two graphics cards in the same PC before). With the two HW profiles I could select which profile got used by having two sections in the CONFIG.SYS file with names that corresponded to the names of the HW Profiles. That way I got a boot menu that listed the two HW profiles to choose from. Windows98 was designed to work that way. That was before WinME. WinME doesn't allow you to customize CONFIG.SYS - so the boot menu thing isn't available. MY QUESTION: Has anyone here used HW profiles to make Windows choose between graphics cards? Do you have any tips or suggestions on the subject? Also, is there a way I can get some kind of boot menu where I can choose between the different HW profiles? |
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