My computer defaults to the onboard graphics when trying to play games....

[Ako]

Hey,

As of 4 hours ago I became the owner of a new 6600gt. It was a Christmas present to myself so I could get a better visual experience out of my games.

I installed the card fine along with the drivers. I then changed my desktop settings etc. I then proceeded to load up wow. It loaded but I found that it was rendered with the onboard graphics (This is because it looked absolutely shocking). It then crashed. Every game so far has done the same thing.

I did some research and have done the following to try and solve this problem:

I went about a thorough clean up of my ATI drivers from my previous card. I did this by following this.

This however didnt help. I still have this problem..

At current I am looking try and shut off the onboard graphics via the bios. This will happen after I find an online manual telling me how.

Any help would be appreciated as I am very keen to go back to playing WOW.


My specs:

AMD 3200
1 gig of RAM
NVIDIA 6600 gt (AGP) previously a Radeon 9550 (AGP)
K8T800 8237 motherboard made by NEC Computers


Any help would be greatt - thanks

 

[PC_Nerd]

Umm, disable the onboard graphics in your BIOS settings, thats most likely the thing thats causing you any greif.

 

[Ako]

Hey thanks guys for the ideas.

All sorted now. Now back to WOW