15" MacBook Pro w/ Dual Graphics Cards setting in Windows XP Boot Camp?

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15" MacBook Pro w/ Dual Graphics Cards setting in Windows XP Boot Camp?

Hello all! Absolutely loving my new MacBook Pro so far. I've switched for college and I'm not looking back...

I ended up getting the 15" model with the dual video cards about a month ago. I've yet to find the way to turn on or off the auxiliary graphics card when I'm running Windows through Boot Camp. I was told when running OSX it defaults to on when plugged into the wall, and off when running on battery. Is that the case when running Windows XP? Couldn't find a setting or any documentation on this anywhere...

MacBook Pro 15", Dual Video Cards, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 31, 2009 3:35 PM

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Fortuny

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Jul 31, 2009 9:26 PM in response to Homestargolfer

Hi and welcome to Discussions,

it would have been better to ask such question in the BootCamp Forum http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237

Anyway, at the moment only one of the two graphics chips in your MBP is useable in BootCamp Windows and that is the more powerful 9600.
The other one (the 9400) is not useable in Windows, but that might change with the release of newer Drivers.

Regards

Stefan

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