Damn Intel (again)

I have a Dell laptop, an Inspiron 1100, that seemed to play Second Life fine. Not without glitches and lag of course, but everyone's got that.

I've been trying to deal with this Windows Update that has installed this Intel Graphics Controller thing and for the life of me can't figure out why after I've uninstalled it and installed Nvidia Geforce repeatedly, Windows XP ain't working for me. It keeps saying that "new hardware has been found" and then searches for the best program to execute this new hardware, which of course is INTEL AGAIN. My screen will persist in displaying as 800x600 unless I figure out an alternate, good program to assign to this hardware. I don't have enough money right now to go out and get a graphics card, so does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should deal with this? Maybe some way to make Nvidia my main -- and only -- driver?

Thanks in advance!

HI Lo -

Instead of trying to uninstall, only to have XP find it again on reboot -

Uninstall the drivers, and immediately disable the intel graphics thing.

It dang near drove me nuts...until my teenager said " Well if you disable it, it won't come up again you know"

To disable the intel graphics controller, right click "My Computer", choose "Properties", choose the Hardware tab, choose "device manager".

Find the intel graphics controller in the list under display adapters. Right click, choose "Disable".

I think you will need to restart ones it's been disabled, if not, I'd restart anyway, just to be sure the setting took.

Sorry if I gave too much detail, but better too much than too little.

indigo

First off don't disable it, he said he has a laptop! If he disables this he's likely not to be ablel to use it again. There are some steps you can take, first off you have to change the way Windows Update works, now for most people setting it to automatically download and update drivers works, but in your case you might think about having it only download and then prompt you to install. That way you can see what it want's to install. Or you can go the more experienced route and do all the updates on your own selecting which updates you want and when to install them.
This option while less secure as you wont have the latest updates installed automatically should provide you the opportunity to maintain your nvidia drivers for your laptop. When you uninstall your Windows XP drivers and go to reboot, cancel if it will allow you to, the find new hardware upon rebooting, if you are able to do this, (i've had problems with this myself), then you can install your nvidia drivers. If this does not work I know there must be a place on Microsofts site on disabling autoupdating of drivers only. At least their should be, I for one would demand it especially for businesses which like to maintain a consistant driver database across a business.

If you are still having problems please feel free to reply and I'll try to help the best I can.