how to force win xp to use standard svga?

[Niklas]

I got a rather old toshiba laptop with a Trident 9525DVD Graphic Adapter and
a 800x600 display.
But due to a hardware error, it won't display correct when hardware
acceleration is used.
So under windows 95 - and linux - I just deactivated hardware accelaration
and everything works fine.
But now I have installed windows XP and this trick does not work any more.
XP still got this slider to deactivate hardware acceleration but it has no
effect, so I guess the driver acts somewhat different.

Even the "standard vga" option in the F8 menue does not help - which is
probably because it uses - according to some article at microsoft.com - not
the standard vga driver but the installed driver in standard mode.

In safe mode everything works fine - because then the real standard vga
driver is used.

So my idea is somehow to force XP to use the standard driver - but how.
Removing the driver files dies not help, because XP fetchs them again
without asking out of its driver .cab File.


Niklas

 

[Richard Urban]

Update your hardware or stay with Windows 95/98

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

I got a rather old toshiba laptop with a Trident 9525DVD Graphic
Adapter and a 800x600 display.
But due to a hardware error, it won't display correct when hardware
acceleration is used.
So under windows 95 - and linux - I just deactivated hardware
accelaration and everything works fine.
But now I have installed windows XP and this trick does not work any
more. XP still got this slider to deactivate hardware acceleration
but it has no effect, so I guess the driver acts somewhat different.

Even the "standard vga" option in the F8 menue does not help - which
is probably because it uses - according to some article at
microsoft.com - not the standard vga driver but the installed driver
in standard mode.

In safe mode everything works fine - because then the real standard
vga driver is used.

So my idea is somehow to force XP to use the standard driver - but
how. Removing the driver files dies not help, because XP fetchs them
again without asking out of its driver .cab File.


Niklas

Have you tried the /BASEVIDEO switch in Boot.ini ?

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtml

quote:

"/BASEVIDEO
Causes Windows to use the standard VGA display driver for GUI-mode
operations. "