Question

[Mop]

Ok so I have a videocard for my pc but when I boot up with it plugged in the monitor stays off - I checked the slot and ti works fine, this is the seconds vid card with the problem. The pc does meet the vid card reqs.

anyone have any ideas on this?

[Tossica]

Check for on board video card and make sure it's disabled in BIOS

[Mop]

i looked and I dont have that option in bios, any other ideas?

[Gidan]

Does the computer have an onboard vid card? E- Machines were big on using onboard Vid cards but for some reason many did not have a bios option to bypass it. Caused major problems when trying to unse a different vid card, it woudl always look to the onboard card regardless of other cards being present.

[Mop]

there is an onoard card, how do I bypass that? = (

i r noob. ps i am using win98, yes ugh i know im gunna work on learning linux so I can put that on here

[Mop]

What I should ahve said is, yes there is an onboard vid card, I can not find in bios where to turn it off.

[Gidan]

You may be in trouble, getting windoes to ignore the onboard card in favor of the other is not always so easy.

[kaharthemad]

alot of times it is buried under the advanced Bios setttings if there is a point that says initiate video and has a slection for agp or PCI change it to AGP. most times the onboard videos are hooked on your PCI Bus.

[Tossica]

Otherwise, check the manual for a jumper setting on the motherboard to disable onboard video.

[kaharthemad]

yea what toss said.

[horendus]

machine specs pls, what is the motherboard manufacturer/serial no.?

[horendus]

but yah, bios setting or physical jumper would be my guess.