On Wednesday 12 February 2003 9:46 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: *snip* > What you touched on is really a bios deficiency in many ready made > computers. The larger problem is making any changes to ready mades. > The computer left the factory with the bare minimums to support the > original hardware configuration, design, and OS. > > Adding in hardware later probly won't go over to well, and changing > the OS from Windoze often doesn't either. > > Are you sure there's not a bios option, somethin like "memory hole > at 16mb", and that it's not enabled? It's not just the ready-made one's with this problem. I've found that MANY all-in-one's either don't have the option to disable the onboard video, or if even if they have the option, it doesnt work. I have a ASUS sp97v board with a dead onboard vga and a PCI vga card.... I disabled the onboard card using a jumper on the motherboard to do so, and yet X still detects the card and attempts to use it, however the memory is freed and everything works if I tell X to not use that card. He should look on the board, near the onboard VGA connector, to see if there is a jumper to disable the onboard stuff.. It will allow the board to give up it's shared vga memory, and might even actually disable the onboard video like it's supposed to.
-- Chuck Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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