Disable automatic hardware installation?

[Adam]

My onboard graphics card keeps trying to install itself everytime I boot up which causes conflicts with my newer graphics card, resulting in many screen blinks, graphic errors and just poor performance. My BIOS is unique, was made for TIME Computers (*****) apparently and has no way of disabling onboard graphics. There are no updated BIOS' either ft:

Does anyone know how to stop automatic hardware installation for Windows 2000?

Cheers

Adam

[yashiro]

Let it install.
Go to device manager.
Find the onboard display adapter
Right click/properties.
At the bottom of the first tab "Device Usage".
Set to Disabled.
Reboot.

[Adam]

I see the device usage bit but it's greyed out and I can't choose anything

[eghamninja]

Motherboards used to have switches on them to disable onboard GFX adaptors, check your manual as yours might have one as well.

[oracle]

or in the bios u should be able to configure it from there

[Adam]

I checked out the motherboard + manual but it wasn't much help (no switches) and oracle I already said that the bios has no options to disable onboard graphics, it's a Time Computer init Oh well, I'll just have to live with it.

Thanks

[evilmatt]

You could always locate the gfx chipset, and carefully prise the chip(s) off the board.





If you are a crazy person

[choddo]

I see the device usage bit but it's greyed out and I can't choose anything

What you mean? What's greyed out? Are you not an administrator of the PC or summat?

[oracle]

sorry didnt read that section of the post,

id be suprised if you cant remove it try using an admin acount to disable it

[Adam]

I am the primary user for the computer so I have full admin access. After tinkering about, it appears that I could only disable it from hardware manager when there is a fault detected (which happens when I assign the device a proper driver) but even when disabled it still caused problems. I think I sorted it now though, I must have installed the detonator drivers when I had antivirus software running as I just wiped my PC free from anything nvidia and then reinstalled fresh drivers (with antivirus disabled) and the problem seems to have gone.

Thanks for the help