Hmm that didn't happen to me when I put mines in. Did you install the NVIDIA drivers? Try disabling the onboard in the device manager. That’s what I did. There doesn’t seem to be an option to turn it off in the bios (my bios) maybe there is for you however. It isn’t too complicated. Just simply look for onboard graphics or integrated graphics controller or w/e and select disable, but first try disabling it in the device manager. It should be listed under display adapters -> properties -> disable this device.

You should upgrade to DX9.0c...

 

I've done all that, grabbed the latest NVIDIA drivers availible to me, disabled intel integrated graphics with the device manager almost every time, its leaving me alone for now but as soon as I have to reset the comp im sure ill have to disable it again.

What do you mean by DX9.0c? i already have DirectX 9.0 if thats what you mean.

Im going to check in my BIOS later and dig around more, maybe ive just overlooked it...

 

I know this is a silly question, but did you plug your monitor into the new card, or is it still plugged into the old one?

By the way, your computer should have run Condition Zero even with integrated graphics. Nevertheless, a 5500 is a good step up.

 

Yeah I have my monitor plugged into the NVIDIA card, n oother card exists and the motherboard mounted monitor conection is bare and unused... I had CS:CZ before getting the NVIDIA but it had an ugly framerate. initially after installing the NVIDIA card my frames were insane, but that only lasted for awhile, or im used to seeing it like that and dont notice the nice framerate

anyway, i havent gotten around to checking my BIOS to see if i can disable integrated graphics indefinately... and i also dont remember how anyway (ill check online later) Thanks for the reasurance tho.


Edit: I fixed my problem! A friend of mine was watching me as i went about killing the intel thing on restart and pointed out to me thet i shouldnt be uninstalling the integreated chip... I should only Disable the chip, which should keep it from messing with my new card. Now it leaves me alone and Start up is much faster thanks to simply disabling the chip (I misunderstood NVIDIA directions apparently) I also had Firewall Issues were to blame for a massive amount of the S L O W startup shutdown times, I had Norton Internet Security 2005 and something was wrong with it and i was told by thier own tech support to uninstall and reinstall (reinstall led me to a dead end which they are fixing soon i think) but now that Norton is gone, my Comp is blazing fast as if it were brand new ... so i think my problems are pretty much gone! (cept for the missing firewall but my DSL modem does alot on its own to keep me safe )