Vista - Changing display settings via registry

Greetings Freddy!
I had already written that I live in India.The newegg.com website did not
help much because of poor categorisation of graphics cards.Of course it did
not cost anything to look.
Anyway,thanks for the help.

"freddy" wrote:

> Hiren Mehta,
>
> The website www.newegg.com has a good selection of all types of graphics
> cards, including those for PCI, and is a good place to review hardware.
> Access the site and search on PCI graphics cards. The site will display a
> good selection of such cards, but I don't know whether any of them will be
> Aero compatible. It doesn't cost anything to look. If you find a card you
> like, you might be able to buy it locally. Good luck.
> --
> freddy

Hi,thanks a lot for taking interest.
The updated situation now is that I have added a legacy PCI graphics
card,the NVidia GeForce FX 5200,of 128 MB capacity,which is listed to be
`Certified for Windows Vista` as per the Hardware compatibility list.Although
now I am running Vista in normal mode at an excellent resolution of
1024x768(the card can go still higher but the monitor cannot) in 32-bit
color(in short,Windows Vista's basic user interface is fully usable now),I
need assistance now.
In Device Manager,I get that yellow exclamation mark for this display
adapter whose WDDM drivers are built into Vista.I checked Windows Update but
no newer version of the driver is available.In the properties of this
device,the field `Device status` mentions that
`This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other
devices on this system.
Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and
to see if there is a solution available.`
I did click `Check for solutions` and the system did go online to check for
a possible workaround but could not get any.
From what I can make out,the only device which would need to be disabled is
the `Intel(R) 82810 System and Graphics Controller`,given under `System
Devices` in Device Manager.The NVidia graphics card is the only one listed
under `Display Adapters` in Device Manager because I have disabled the
onboard graphics controller at the BIOS level in my Intel 810 chipset-based
motherboard.(I set the `Init Display First` setting in `Integrated
Peripherals` section of the BIOS setup to `PCI slot` instead of `Onboard` and
in the `Advanced Chipset Features` section,I set the value of `On-Chip Video
Window size` to `Disabled`,instead of the other possible values of 32 MB and
64 MB).I checked my motherboard manual thoroughly as well as Intel's support
website and came to the conclusion that there is no jumper setting or any
other hardware-based method by which I can disable the on-board graphics
controller.
Now,back to the `Intel(R) 82810 System and Graphics controller`,which I
think needs to be disabled.The only options available while right-clicking it
are `Update driver software`,`Uninstall`,`Scan for hardware changes` and
`Properties`.I already tried searching for an updated driver online even for
this system device but could not find any.I have removed the port bracket
attached via cable to the pin header on the motherboard,so I tried `Scan for
Hardware Changes`,thinking that it may detect the absence of a connector for
the on-board graphics controller's pin header on the motherboard,but that did
not help.As is obvious,there is no `Disable` option.What do I do now?
I also tried to `Uninstall` the device and disable the `Plug & Play` service
from running at startup to prevent getting the onboard graphics controller
detected at any subsequent reboot,but found out that by doing so Device
Manager would not list any devices at all.So that did not help.
At present I have a very low Windows Experience Index of 1.0 since the
detailed report for the `Graphics` and `Gaming Graphics` sub-scores mention
that my graphics card is simply not detected at all.In fact,it mentions that
the Direct X version is DirectX 8 or earlier whereas the graphics card is
fully DirectX 9 compliant.Even when I right-click the desktop and choose
`Personalise>Display Settings` and then choose `Advanced Settings`,my
`Adapter Type` is listed to be blank,with all other fields in the `Adapter
tab` having a value of either `<unavailable>` or `n/a`,for the memory amount
fields.If I click `Properties` here,I get the properties for the `VgaSave`
non-Plug and Play drivers,all because the on-board graphics controller needs
to be disabled somehow in order to get the NVidia graphics card access the
resources it needs.My other Windows Experience Index sub-scores are 1.3 for
the processor,1.5 for the memory and 5.2 for the hard-disk.I am sure my
graphics card can go higher than 1.0 and thereby increase my overall WEI
index,since at present graphics and gaming graphics are the lowest subscores.

Many thanks for reading the long message.Sorry for the trouble.

Hiren Mehta.

""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am just writing to see how everything is going. If you have any updates
> or need any further assistance on this issue, please feel free to let me
> know.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Ken Zhao
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