hola! mi llamo alberto!
ha jk
well i got a small problem that needs some solving, so if you techy guys know what your doing, feel free to help me..
ok i currently have bought a new graphics card, and its a geforce 8500gt 512mb gddr2 memory. which is a huge upgrade from my geforce 6100 ONBOARD graphics card. notice how i made onboard bold? well thats kinda the problem, when i go to try and install my new graphics card, its kinda confusing.
ok i uninstalled my current graphics card driver and turned off the computer and inserted my new card (yes its inserted all the way ) and pluged my monitor to the card, but guess what? when i turn on my computer, there is like no output to the monitor :s and since it has a onboard video card, i pluged it into the old monitor port, and to my surprise, there is output, so what i'm trying to say is how do i disable my onboard video card through bios. Now, i dont have my mobo or what ever its called lol. but i try to dig my way through there and i noticed that there is like no option to disable the onboard, since my machine is like only 2 years old. the bios is kinda new i guess. and i read somewhere that the newer bios is automated, so when ever you plug in a new card, it should automatically switch to it and disable the onboard card, but i guess that mine is being stupid* hehe. so ya, i was wondering is there a surefire way that you can disable the onboard card...
well there is this one other thing i tried, which i feel i should tell ya, when i uninstalled my current graphics card driver and inserted the new card in and turned my computer on, with the monitor attached to the new graphic's card driver's port. there is no output. so i just went on and tried to finish the installation, so i pluged it into the old port, and the monitor comes back to life. than i inserted the driver cd that came with my new graphics card and tried to install the driver, but as much to my surprise, when i went to restart the computer, i found that my old geforce 6100 onboard got installed instead of my geforce 8500 :s so I'm kinda at a lost. so if any of you can help me. i would be really greatfull and owe you my eternal gratitude! hehe
thanks,
albert
ha jk
well i got a small problem that needs some solving, so if you techy guys know what your doing, feel free to help me..
ok i currently have bought a new graphics card, and its a geforce 8500gt 512mb gddr2 memory. which is a huge upgrade from my geforce 6100 ONBOARD graphics card. notice how i made onboard bold? well thats kinda the problem, when i go to try and install my new graphics card, its kinda confusing.
ok i uninstalled my current graphics card driver and turned off the computer and inserted my new card (yes its inserted all the way ) and pluged my monitor to the card, but guess what? when i turn on my computer, there is like no output to the monitor :s and since it has a onboard video card, i pluged it into the old monitor port, and to my surprise, there is output, so what i'm trying to say is how do i disable my onboard video card through bios. Now, i dont have my mobo or what ever its called lol. but i try to dig my way through there and i noticed that there is like no option to disable the onboard, since my machine is like only 2 years old. the bios is kinda new i guess. and i read somewhere that the newer bios is automated, so when ever you plug in a new card, it should automatically switch to it and disable the onboard card, but i guess that mine is being stupid* hehe. so ya, i was wondering is there a surefire way that you can disable the onboard card...
well there is this one other thing i tried, which i feel i should tell ya, when i uninstalled my current graphics card driver and inserted the new card in and turned my computer on, with the monitor attached to the new graphic's card driver's port. there is no output. so i just went on and tried to finish the installation, so i pluged it into the old port, and the monitor comes back to life. than i inserted the driver cd that came with my new graphics card and tried to install the driver, but as much to my surprise, when i went to restart the computer, i found that my old geforce 6100 onboard got installed instead of my geforce 8500 :s so I'm kinda at a lost. so if any of you can help me. i would be really greatfull and owe you my eternal gratitude! hehe
thanks,
albert