I am getting a new GPU soon and I was wondering ifwhen you uninstall the drivers and then take it out, put the new one in turn and on the machine do you plug the monitor into the dvi on the GPU being the drivers are not installed yet or do you plug the monitor into the onboard dvi, ive always ahd amd cards and the one i'm supposed to be getting is NVidia so I am new to NVidia.( that is if I can get the card to fit in my case)
GPU installation question...
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all cards have basic vga output that is used for first booting. regardless of manufacturer. so yeah just plug it in and connect your monitor to it.
tell bios its in pci-e 1 and dissable the onboard if you have it.
you may experiance some stability issues even if you remove the old card because when you installed windows with the other card a hardware abstraction layer was created. this layer tells windows what drivers to load to get the hardware to boot. but because you are changing the card it will try and load the old cards default driver regardless, so this may cause a compatibility issue with your new nvidia card.. if this happens you have 2 options, repair install windows or fresh install windows.
tell bios its in pci-e 1 and dissable the onboard if you have it.
you may experiance some stability issues even if you remove the old card because when you installed windows with the other card a hardware abstraction layer was created. this layer tells windows what drivers to load to get the hardware to boot. but because you are changing the card it will try and load the old cards default driver regardless, so this may cause a compatibility issue with your new nvidia card.. if this happens you have 2 options, repair install windows or fresh install windows.
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It doesn't matter, so long as the iGPU is enabled, the drivers for devices in Windows are independent of the video output.
well my past experience tells me different. i have swapped out a lot of amd for nvidia and vice-versa and nearly always had trouble with system stability until i figured out a repair install rewrote the hal. (which is a lot easier than trying to do it from inside windows which is the third option, that i purposely dropped because its to complex for most users)
A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is an abstraction layer, implemented in software, between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer. Its function is to hide differences in hardware from most of the operating system kernel, so that most of the kernel-mode code does not need to be changed to run on systems with different hardware. On a PC, HAL can basically be considered to be the driver for the motherboard and allows instructions from higher level computer languages to communicate with lower level components, but prevents direct access to the hardware.
but because the hal is created at install of windows its set firm in its initial config. so if you first install with an ati card, the hal layer would be slightly different to an identical system but with an nvidia card. its this small difference that causes stability issues. yes the pc will still work and you will still get an image on screen as it should, but you will also start getting random bsods that will increase in frequency until you have no option but to reinstall.
so while "doesnt matter" is technically correct, "it doesnt matter if you just want the system up and running", if you want to use the system after words and use it safely (without fear of loosing data) the bare minimum should be a repair install.
A hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is an abstraction layer, implemented in software, between the physical hardware of a computer and the software that runs on that computer. Its function is to hide differences in hardware from most of the operating system kernel, so that most of the kernel-mode code does not need to be changed to run on systems with different hardware. On a PC, HAL can basically be considered to be the driver for the motherboard and allows instructions from higher level computer languages to communicate with lower level components, but prevents direct access to the hardware.
but because the hal is created at install of windows its set firm in its initial config. so if you first install with an ati card, the hal layer would be slightly different to an identical system but with an nvidia card. its this small difference that causes stability issues. yes the pc will still work and you will still get an image on screen as it should, but you will also start getting random bsods that will increase in frequency until you have no option but to reinstall.
so while "doesnt matter" is technically correct, "it doesnt matter if you just want the system up and running", if you want to use the system after words and use it safely (without fear of loosing data) the bare minimum should be a repair install.
there are places you can download legit copies of your windows cd, you then use it to make an image dvd. im not sure but i think redmond may now be charging for win 7 backup disks, but its worth looking into to see if you qualify for a legit win 7 download.
digital river was the place you could legally download from but im not sure now because win7 is nolonger for sale on the m.s site.
digital river was the place you could legally download from but im not sure now because win7 is nolonger for sale on the m.s site.
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