disabling onboard video!!!

[paul500]

Can someone please help me. I got a GeForce 4 MX 420 PCI card for christmas and I am trying to install it on my computer. My computers motherboard came with a SiS 620 AGP onboard video card. I looked thru my manual and cannot find out how to disable the onboard video. I went into bios and but I dont know what setting to change to get it off. The motherboard in a PCCHIPS M748MR. I have a celeron 500mhz processor. If someone knows the motherboard and knows how to disable the onboard video please help me.
Thanks for any help!

[Strawbs]

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[Strawbs]

Welcome to SysOpt By The Way.

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[paul500]

Thanks for the info! I will give that a try.

[Giraffe }{unter]

On page 29 of the manual


Advanced BIOS setup there is a Primary Display option.

[paul500]

I thought that that was the setting to change but when I went to change it, it did not have a PCI option.

[paul500]

I need help! Can anyone please help me with this problem. I dont want to take this video card back, second one I would have to take back. **** onboard POS.

[Peter M]

Normally (as seen in the other thread dealing with the exact same problem), you'd choose PCI for "Primary VGA" in BIOS, and that's it. Problem however is that the GeForce PCI cards practically never work alongside an AGP VGA, be it chipset integrated or separate.

Now since this board doesn't let you disable the integrated AGP VGA, you need a different card, an ATi preferrably. Although the other guy has a non-working Radeon 7500, you should wait how that turns out.

[Strawbs]

Here (http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=125798) I believe.

[jrobbinson]

i have had a aiw radeon pci and now run a gf2mx on the non intel counter part sis 530 socket 7.
use two monitors if you have them and put the card in leaving your main monitor hooked to onboard and other to new card. in bios leave pci vid set to agp {your onboard} and asign an irq to vid yes.
when you get into win let it find the new card and install Standard PCI Graphics Adaptor {VGA} driver for the second display card. in display properties of your onboard vid and main monitor you should be able to activate the second display card and monitor and see it become active now make it the primary display. if all that worked as it should now reboot into bios and switch primary display to pci save and reboot you should see your second display booting once in windows deactivate the onboard drivers in device manager DO NOT REMOVE THEM. set the display property the way you like and reboot once in windows again install the ATI drivers you may be able to do that without rebooting not sure.

[jrobbinson]

I was reading both posts install the geforce driver instead of ati.
i think i was able to install the geforce driver straight away instead of the standard pci driver cant remember.
i just remeber the geforce was easier than the ati
the geforce installed the first time the aiw took 3-4 days and 20 tries.
make sure you do not have a tsr running in the autoexe.bat or c:\drive
that updates the onboard video bios that one stumped me for over a year why i cuoldn't see full screan dos windows or games with a geforce thought that was part of owning a geforce!
not sure about xp i use win98 and the card was a geforce2 mx 200/400 32m DDR.:rolleyes:

[crucibelle]

Hello, everyone :) I just installed a Geforce2 MX200 pci card in to a comp with a FIC mobo with onboard video (no agp slot). I think the onboard video was Trident Blade. This is probably a different bios than what you are using, but they might be similar. Anyhow, I didn't have a second monitor to work with, so it got a little hairy there for a moment, but nothing major. This is what I did:

1. Physically install the card, of course. The direction booklet recommends installing it into the 1st pci slot, which i did.

2. Leaving the monitor plugged in to the mobo VGA thing, then install the drivers from the cd. 1st install DirectX 8.1 then the vga drivers.

3.STILL leave the monitor plugged into the mobo vga, then restart (i think it restarts automatically though)

4. Go into bios - there is an option there: "INIT DISPLAY FIRST" Put that on PCI instead of AGP, then save and exit. Now your screen is going to go black. So, i had to shut down the comp by just pushing the off button, which i know isn't desirable... (that's the hairy part i was talking about)

5. Plug the monitor into the pci card and power on. Everything should be fine, except you need to run a scan for disk errors. I use Norton Utilities.

-the end-

everthing turned out fine, my friend was very happy. Hope this helps. :t

-jeanna

[Peter M]

You could have skipped the scary moment ...

Set "Init Display First" to PCI straight away. As long as there's no PCI VGA in the system, the AGP/onboard/integrated VGA will stay active. Save, Exit, power off normally.

Then install the PCI VGA, plug the monitor into it and power on. Windows will detect the new card and ask for drivers.

That's the plan ...

[crucibelle]

OOHHHHH.... yes, that does sound like a better plan. I'm not suprised i did things @ss-backwards - I'm a scatterbrain :D :x

-jeanna

[eagle1]

So ...Paul, did it worked?

I could tell you how I got my Voodoo (PCI) to work but it already has been said and I don't have any experience with the latest pci video cards.! ;)

[paul500]

Well I just gave up. I finally got it installed and halfway working but it would not play opengl games (quake 3 & other games) so I gave up. Took it back and got my money. My parents got tired of my complaining all the time so they got me a new PC. 1.8 ghz p4, 60 ghz hd, 256 mb ram, onboard 64 mb card, can't wait to get rid of this POS. Thanks to all the guys who help me out and responded.

[crucibelle]

edit: nevermind, misread your last post :D

-jeanna