Re: Determining if onboard VGA is used

"John Dough" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:58:16 +0200, "Maarten Wiltink"
<maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The question is which driver Windows is using.

No, actually the question has absolutely nothing to do with the
driver...because the driver will not give you any indication as to
whether it's talking to an onboard video chipset or an actual video
card sitting in an AGP or PCI-E slot on the motherboard.

What you have to do is identify the TYPE of video hardware.
Identifying the drivers will be useless.

What, to you, determines the TYPE of video hardware? The chip, or
its connection to the CPU, or the presence of a physical slot in
between?

I have a motherboard, retired now, with an onboard SiS 6326 chip.
This chip, I've seen described, probably with reason, as crap. But
(a) it's connected over AGP (that's what the manual says), and
(b) I bet video cards have been made with that chip on them.

This motherboard also has an AGP slot. If I put such a card onto
that motherboard, _what difference would it make_?

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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