Acer 5742ZG: to switch between the Intel HD card and the ATI 5470 card.

[Turquose]

Hey all, I am using the new Acer Aspire 5742ZG with a P6100 CPU and as I know that this CPU have the HD card. I am suffering from the problem that is I cant find the way to switch between the Intel HD card and ATI 5470 card. In my laptop I am only able to select the ATI card, I also don’t have the option in the BIOS or in the windows. The specification for my laptop is given as:
CPU: Intel P6100
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon 5470
RAM: 4GB DDR3 1066
HDD: WD 320 GB 5400 RPM

[Yitzchak909]

I would like to know that is there any way to mod this bios to see if there is any hidden menus? I am using the Acer Aspire 5742ZG, and this model uses the insydeh2o bios. And also I am using the latest version of the BIOS which is version 1.1. please, if anyone have the solution then report me back over here. any help would be appreciated!

[pddaugusto]

Let me tell you that if you are using the INSYDE H2O BIOS then you can't really hope for a mod, I am telling this because they don’t support the mod facility. Also I would like to tell you that even in Aspire 5740G uses modable Phoenix BIOS which is released before one year ago don’t have this facility for mod. uses modable Phoenix BIOS no one was able to make switchable graphics work yet. So in this case make sure that you are not using the both the laptop, because they do not support for the mod.

[Howitzer]

Hey, thank you very much for your reply, I appreciate the answer. I want to know that do you think that I will ever be lucky enough to have this working. Please reply me back.

[samar69]

No, I think that you would not ever be lucky enough to have this working. Please reply me back. I am telling this thing because of mod the InsydeH20 BIOS than the Phoenix BIOS. Let me tell you again that As mentioned before, the Acer Aspire 5742ZG is very popular laptop and but still it not been successfully modded to support switchable graphics. So if you are thinking that you would be able to be lucky enough to have this working, then you are wrong at this time.

[Turquose]

I think that you would not ever be lucky enough to have this working. Please reply me back. I am telling this thing because of mod the InsydeH20 BIOS than the Phoenix BIOS. Let me tell you again that As mentioned before, the Acer Aspire 5742ZG is very popular laptop and but still it not been successfully modded to support switchable graphics. So if you are thinking that you would be able to be lucky enough to have this working, then you are wrong at this time.

Thanks for your suggestion, but unfortunately I have to agree with you, Chances are very slim and that's an hopeful guess