problem with the intel 810 graphics chipset

[chillincelestial]

Well, my aunt has a really crappy old dell deminsion L1000r, had really terrible on board graphics. It only had PCI slots, so we went to Walmart and bought her a nvidia geforce 2 mx 400 pci card, which is somewhat crappy I know, but it will due for her. When installing it, I went into the bios and switched the video to PCI, I unstalled the drivers for the onboard graphics, and I disabled the graphics controller. All would be well it seems, but...
Everytime you reboot the system the onboard graphics adapter drivers come back. The first time is ok, but when you restart, the drivers mess up the video, and you have to go into VGA mode, delete the drivers, then restart. The temporary solution I gave them was to always delete the drivers before they restart. They are running Windows 2000 pro, it has a Pentium 2 1.0 ghz, 128 mbs of ram, and the PCI Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 with a local bus. I read somewhere that you can disable the onboard graphics on the mother board, but I have no clue how. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Peter M]

The graphics adapter is supposed to come back. It doesn't disable when you add PCI VGA, and it isn't supposed to either. They coexist - unless your PCI VGA is incapable of doing that.
If you don't want to use it, then just disable it in Device Manager rather than deleting it.

[chillincelestial]

Originally posted by Peter M
The graphics adapter is supposed to come back. It doesn't disable when you add PCI VGA, and it isn't supposed to either. They coexist - unless your PCI VGA is incapable of doing that.
If you don't want to use it, then just disable it in Device Manager rather than deleting it.

I don't think the PCI VGA is capable of doing that. I tryed disabling it, but in Device Manager it doesn't give you the option for. There is only uninstall.

[Peter M]

There is "Disable in this hardware profile" in every single Windows flavor. Use that. Still, your PCI VGA needs to be multi-VGA capable.

[John Prophet]

Just let the drivers come back etc....and like Peter says go into device manager and disable the onboard graphics.....on some setups you cant make it NOT detect the onboard....you just let it detect it, but then u disable it in dev manager.

Peaceful co-existence.

[Xtreeme]

Right click the pci card under device manager. GO to properties tab. choose disable in this hardware profile. Right now its checked EXISTS in ALL hardware profiles. DO that and it will be essentially turned off. Thats how I kill off onboard everytime.

[ragtop]

What the others have suggested - (disabling in device manager) should work, once its disabled you should see a red "X" next to the device & you should be good to go.

The other thing you might want to try is simply installing the video card in a different PCI slot. Occasionally that will resolve the type of problem you're describing.