Video Card Issue--Please Help

[acebake]

If I'm installing a video card in a computer with an integrated video card, how do I go about disabling it--or do I need to? BIOS?


Thanks,


Aaron Baker

 

[acebake]

I've tried everything, including disabling it in the BIOS, looking for a "silent-disable," everything. There's no way that integrated is all that you can have is there?


HELP!


Thanks .

 

[SonicIce]

I once had the same problem. If you can't disable in the bios, then remove your current drivers, then install the drivers for you new card.

 

[acebake]

Thanks for the post!

I was trying to do that (and did it--I actually removed the integrated card's drivers), but it didn't help. The system refused to connect to the new card, it just beeped. Any other ideas?

 

[L00PY]

It probably depends on your mobo and O/S. In my setup, there aren't any BIOS settings so I just install (or uninstall) the card to switch between the two. Windows picks it up fine and switches between the two. It doesn't hurt that they're both NVidia based.

Did you look up the beep code? Listing your specs might help.

 

[acebake]

Thank you!

It's a Gateway 500 SE 500 MHz AMD K6-2 computer that I'm working on for a friend. I can't find who makes the motherboard (I was going to check for a jumper to move), but this is the closest I found:

Gateway--click on motherboard link


Any ideas?

 

[acebake]

Alright, I've gotten the card to work--I just disabled the integrated card and removed the drivers. It'll work just fine one time only, but the second I restart the computer it reverts to to the integrated card.

What should I do? I've tried removing the card, drivers, disabling the card in the system devices part, moving it to PCI in the BIOS (it's a PCI card).

What am I doing wrong?



Thank you,

Aaron Baker

 

[acebake]

Up--please help....

 

[acebake]

Up.

 

[bendixG15]

Thats an "old" Gateway. Just how new is the Video Card ???

Could be that the Gateway BIOS does not support the new video card.
Try the Gateway site to see if thenew video card is supported, or maybe you
can get a BIOS update to support the new card..

Thats the problems I had in the past with "old" motherboards and new Video cards.

 

[islandtechengineers]

Originally posted by: bendixG15
Thats an "old" Gateway. Just how new is the Video Card ???

Could be that the Gateway BIOS does not support the new video card.
Try the Gateway site to see if thenew video card is supported, or maybe you
can get a BIOS update to support the new card..

Thats the problems I had in the past with "old" motherboards and new Video cards.

got a point there.... and what OS are you running on this machine?