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C.Dempsey
| | Posted on Monday, August 12, 2002 - 9:27 pm: | |
I have an AcerPower6400 series system with on-board ATIRage Pro 3D graphics of 4Mb. I wish to install a separate 32Mb card on my PCI bus (not having an AGP slot). Will installing this automatically disable the on-board one,or do I do it manually. If manually,how do I go about this?
Motherboard = Acer V65LA with Slot1 Celeron 266 (but soon to be upgraded as soon as I can find someone to sell me a Pentium ll 333MHz)
New graphics card ordered=32Mb TNT-2 PCI 3D |
v (Vera)
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2002 - 2:04 pm: | |
Some motherboards with onboard graphics have jumpers to control whether it's active or not and sometimes the information is in tiny print somewhere in the vicinity of the jumpers.
Or there may be a feature in BIOS to disable it.
If neither of these options are available then it could be that installing the PCI video card will override the onboard graphics.
And lastly on an older NEC computer I have, the onboard graphics needed to be disabled in device manager (win95) before it would pickup the pci card I wanted to use instead.
hope that helps. |
C. Dempsey
| | Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2002 - 12:35 am: | |
Thanks Vera,
I haven't received my new video card yet but I've checked my V65LA motherboard and there aren't any jumpers that I can see.
Also my BIOS doesn't refer to video at all, so I think if adding a PCI bus video card doesn't automatically disable the on board chip, I should be able to un-check the 'Exists in all hardware profiles' box in the Device Manager window (Win98SE) |
perry perrault
| | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 10:21 pm: | |
I have a similar question ... My HP Pavilion graphics is on-board with an S3 Graphics Pro Savage. I installed an ATI Radeon 7000 Video card. The instructions say I may need to disable the on-board graphics. I went into the Bios and the only option was to choose PCI or AGP. There was no option to disable the existing graphics. I went ahead and just installed the new video card, and it all seemed to go smoothly. I went into Device Manager /Display Adapters and both the new and old video graphics were still listed as existing though. I deleted the old one, and un-checked the box that says it exists. I am not sure now if the new Video card is really in control and the old one is truly disabled. How do I know for sure? When I do a run:dxdiag it shows my new card as the current one operating. Is this the proof I need? Thanks |
Joseph Czaban
| | Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2004 - 10:13 pm: | |
Also similar question (but ready to sledge-hammer my Pavilion 6465) Spent hours on HP's directions, updated bios, (downloaded a ream of instructions) still no luck installing a RADEON R6 ddr SG32M video card on the thing. 440zx/100 cpu, 433mHz, 256M ram, on board video Rage 2x w/8M. Used the AGP slot, disabled current driver, screen won't light, 1-long-2 short beeps on restart. HP site useless waste of time. Please Help & Thanks - Joe |
Joseph Czaban
| | Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2004 - 10:23 pm: | |
Me again with the Pavilion 6465 video problem...running a new hard drive with a fresh (SP2) XP home edition on it. Do have access to the old drive w/Win98 if necessary. Thnx-J |
lee
| | Posted on Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 11:03 pm: | |
have packard bell IMEDIA14o4and need to disable on-board graphics pls help |
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