Changing from Intergrated to main

Hey
Is theior anyway to change from the intergrated chip to main when it's turning on, and hasn't booted vista up yet?
Couldn't find anything in the bios.

Thanks

 

Nope, you have to make sure you do the key combo (FN+ F7?) and then restart otherwise itll stay on whatever it was last on.

Tom

 

Just as a reference there is

Hold down the 2 mouse buttons and it will swap to intergrated

 

What, before making it into windows?

 

Yep. Instead of turning the laptop on using the alienhead. YOu hold down the mouse buttons - this will turn it on and boot it using the intergrated

 

Oh, it'd be nice if they had the courtesy to let us know that eh... But nevertheless good job for pointing it out for us

Tom

 

nice find mate.... +rep for you

 

Now I need your help

I can't switch from intergrated. I've tried multiple methods such as the fn+f7 and the mouse button. It stuck

Help

 

this is not good... you should have told me in advance that it will not switch back to External... I am stuck too ... let me chk it out real quick

 

It doesn't stick it - I've been doing it for a while on this laptop. And I've always been able to switch back. But now not

 

I love it when I do... when I do...
Attached is the script which I was planning to write for quite a while but never got time to do it.

Rename it to .VBS and it will ask you if you want to switch to another card. let me know how it goes

 

some changes to the site... attachments are being moderated? and we cannot use ************ any more ?

anyways.. here is the script that I tried to attach in my previous post. save this in a .VBS file and run it

Code:

If IsInternal Then
	If Msgbox("Running on Internal, want to switch to External", 4,"BinaryGFX") = 6 Then
		SwapMode()
		Msgbox "Settings saved, you need to reboot to use External card",,"BinaryGFX"
	End If
Else
	If Msgbox("Running on External, want to switch to Internal", 4,"BinaryGFX") = 6 Then
		SwapMode()
		Msgbox "Settings saved, you need to reboot to use Internal card",,"BinaryGFX"
	End If
End If

Function IsInternal()
For Each objItem In GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\WMI").ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM WMI_GetVGAMode",,48) 
	If Not isNull(objItem) Then
		If objItem.VGAInfo(0) = 0 Then
			IsInternal = True
		End If
	End If
Next
End Function

Sub SwapMode()
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\WMI") 
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM WMI_SetVGAMode",,48) 
For Each objItem in colItems 
	'do nothing, just loop through it
Next
End Sub

 

Nice!! Thanks <3

 

lol, not quite as successful as it seems then?

 

Erm I dunno, it never ****ed up before. Just untill I tried it today on XP - it could be the binarygfx drivers on xp that are screwed

 

omg... the script does work but then the system is not keeping the settings after reboot... let me try something else

 

Oh noes! lucky i didnt try it then But if it does work on mine (only after there is a fix) itll be good to try.

 

Mine got stuck on integrated, I unplugged the power cable and the battery and held the Alienhead for 15 sec. Then started via Aleinhead and it went to external.

 

Yes it is. It just put my system out of intergrated into the high performance

 

so hard boot works again... let me try again and then will try the script as well

 

anybody noticed.. then after you press the MOUSE BUTTONS the next time it boot Windows Media Center starts automatically. even while vista is running and u press those buttons Media Center starts... strange!

 

Erm, if you mean holding the mouse buttons down in vista will start up the media centre then yes thats right - normal apparently. But if you mean from a boot, then that's not

 

ok that worked.... pheeww...!!!

 

actually you just need to hold done the right mouse button to turn on the system to get into intergrated mode.