Perhaps I have not been as clear as I think.
IMO, Susan's ATI Radeon 7000 card, like the FX5200 card for my grand
daughter's machine, will be far superior in displaying graphic images
relative to the on-board Intel Extreme Graphics video system.

IIUC, Susan has already, at least once, installed the Radeon card and proved
that it works with the latest ATI drivers.
So I recommend to continue to use the Radeon PCI card rather than the
on-board Intel video.

Is that clearer? Sorry for the confusion.
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"Rick T" wrote in message
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I must be missing something here, Jack...

Your granddaughter's machine has no "disable on-board..." in the BIOS;
that much I got, but it persists in trying to install the on-board
drivers... why don't you let it ? The primary graphics adapter will
still be the PCI card and (after you disable on-board graphics in
Windows or perhaps you don't have to; I'm not sure on how dual graphics
works with dissimilar devices) it won't bother you.

As per Susan, she already has a half-decent graphics card; I don't see
any reason to ... ummm... what I seem to have missed is the "So I
reccomend you continue ..."


whistles innocently


Rick

Jack E Martinelli wrote:
Jack wrote: "So I recommend continuing with the current ATI video card,
..."
Unless I misunderstand, Rick, Susan alrady owns and has installed the
Radeon 7000, aka, VE card.

And, "ps: why don't you install the Intel drivers *then* choose "Do
not
use in
this Hardware profile" ?"

did you read this in my 5/20 post?

"FWIW, my seven year old grand daughter now uses an ancient Celeron box
for
her simple Win98 "Barbie" and "Bratz" games. It uses an early Intel
Extreme
Graphics video system on the mainboard. I upgraded this to a modern 128
MB
nVidia FX 5200 video system, Chaintech, I think, with little problem.
The
only twist is that the BIOS permits me to direct the initial boot
detection
to the add-in PCI video card, but offers no way to disable the on-board
Intel Extreme Graphics. So at boot, the Hardware wizard wants to
reinstall
the Intel video driver, which she just cancels. This occurs even though
I
have disabled the Intel video device in the current Hardware Profile."

Susan's machine may work differently, but it may also exhibit the same
behavior as my granddaughter's box.