vg33 from Emachines

[khli01]

I just bought a w4685 computer from emachines( kmart ), it has a fic vg33 mobo, it has 845g chipset, but I can not find the bios how to disable the on board vga( 8mb share), but the motherboard has a agp 4x slot, I have a ati 9600 vga card but after I install it, the machine didn't boot. So anyone got a suggestion the fix this problem?


Thank You!

[dajogejr]

If you just bought that PC, the AGP slot should support 4X and 8X. Again, verify that.

If there is no place in the BIOS to disable onboard video, I'd call emachine tech support.

Even though they do build budget PCs, my experiences with their tech support have been very satisfying....

Check that model number again, it's not showing up on their site.

http://www.emachines.com/support/product_info.html?cat=desktop&subcat=W-Series

[Midknyte]

with some motherboards, you still need to plug the monitor into the onboard video with an agp card installed. once it boots, go to display properties and set the agp card is the primary and disable the onboard video through device manager.

[dajogejr]

That's what I was thinking, Too...MK, but...he said with it in place, in the slot, it won't even boot...so, something's awry...

[sm8000]

You should only need to do it on Windows XP's Device Manager, despite the lack of BIOS settings. If that doesn't work then you need to contact eMachines.

[rmanet]

It's odd but everything I've seen (including the manual - it's on the FIC website along with drivers, updates, etc.) says:

1. there is no option in the bios (even though the board has an agp slot) to select anything but pci or onboard, there is not "init display" for agp

2. others have had the same problem and their agp cards show up as being installed as a pci video card

3. there does appear to be a bios update but couldn't tell if it addressed this issue

I would try eMachines, but also ATI - not so sure the mobo will run that card like it should - had the same probelm with an IBM motherboard I pulled from an OEM machine

[Midknyte]

Originally posted by dajogejr
That's what I was thinking, Too...MK, but...he said with it in place, in the slot, it won't even boot...so, something's awry...

he might think it's not booting if he connected the monitor to the agp video card. I've had to leave the onboard video connected and hold off on the agp card until i booted to windows and did all the proper adjustments.