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How do I perform unattended installations on machines with AGP graphics cards?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
1 Min Read
A. An update HAL.DLL is needed to support machines with AGP graphicscards and a PCI bridge. One such HAL is supplied with Service Pack 3 so youneed to replace the standard HAL.DLL shipped with NT with the Service Pack 3version.
Create a share with the Windows NT installation files
Rename the HAL.DLL file to HAL.OLD
Copy HAL.DLL off of the Service Pack 3 (or above) CD into the directory
Install as normal
Install Service Pack 3 once installation is complete
Some Intel boards have a fault and a patch is available from Intel. Withoutthis patch installed, a user will be able to get only hardware refresh-rate VGAwith even a high-end graphics card. The hitch, however, is that the patch willonly install on Service Pack 3 or later builds of NT.
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