Hi, I am using a XP home with a preinstalled Intel Graphics card from stupid
HP and I just bought a Radeon X700 Pro.

I want to Install my new Graphics Card intill i get a new Tower. And if I do
do that.... when I do get a new tower, can I some how reinstall my old Intel
graphics card without the CD???

Kinda of confusing=\ but any help would be useful. Ty

Since you will need to disable the existing Intel integrated graphics chip
to install the Radeon card, you will need some way to install a driver for
the integrated chip when you remove the dedicated card at a later date.
This would be a download from the HP website, an installation CD from HP or
a download from a third party site of the Intel drivers.

"Timmy" <Timmy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:13F0D511-4F09-48CA-A776-8F1275E7BD37@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I am using a XP home with a preinstalled Intel Graphics card from
> stupid
> HP and I just bought a Radeon X700 Pro.
>
> I want to Install my new Graphics Card intill i get a new Tower. And if I
> do
> do that.... when I do get a new tower, can I some how reinstall my old
> Intel
> graphics card without the CD???
>
> Kinda of confusing=\ but any help would be useful. Ty

Timmy wrote:

> Hi, I am using a XP home with a preinstalled Intel Graphics card from
> stupid
> HP and I just bought a Radeon X700 Pro.
>
> I want to Install my new Graphics Card intill i get a new Tower. And
> if I do do that.... when I do get a new tower, can I some how
> reinstall my old Intel graphics card without the CD???
>
> Kinda of confusing=\ but any help would be useful. Ty

1. Make sure your HP machine has an AGP slot for the graphics card. Many
cheaper computers with onboard graphics do not have an AGP slot.

2. Also make sure the power supply in the machine is adequate to run the
new graphics card.

3. If you are able to use the new card in your machine and afterwards
want to go back to onboard video, just uninstall the card, enable
onboard graphics, and install the driver for the onboard graphics which
you will have previously downloaded from HP's website. HP has drivers
for your computer - go to its tech support site for your specific model
machine.

Malke
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