Problem with integrated GPU

Yvonio

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Hello,

This afternoon I teamed up with a buddy to install some new parts for my Dell Inspiron 570. All went fine, so we started the system and it ran great. Except for the fact that it was running on the old GPU, instead of the newly installed one. We tried fixing this, but we ended up having to reboot the software because the we had updated the driver from the old GPU to something it could not handle.

Can anyone help me please? As the title says, the Dell has an integrated GPU, and therefore I can't just remove that. I've taken out the new card now, and it again runs very smoothly, except for a very old, very bad video card. The old, integrated card is an AMD Ati Radeon HD 4200, the new one a AMD Ati Radeon HD 7870 Sapphire.

Thank you all in advance, Yvo Snoeker
 
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I was out - trying to finish upgrading my Inspiron 570.

Your problem - go to device manger to video adapter and disable it prior to installing new ATI driver, install new ATI driver with new card already installed and monitor attached to new card.

Is it understandable?

_Shadow_

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Well when the graphics card is installed in the motherboard it automatically disables integrated graphics. You are plugging the monitor into the graphics card correct? Also what motherboard are you using?
 

Yvonio

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Well, as to the monitor: no, I was not, a bit of a fail that. As to the motherboard: the stock one, an Asus something, I'll look it up for you now
UPDATE: here it is: AM3 DDR3 Motherboard 4GJJT, the link: http://www.stuartconnections.com/en/motherboards/1863-Dell-Inspiron-570-MT-Main-System-AM3-DDR3-Motherboard-4GJJT.html
 
I was out - trying to finish upgrading my Inspiron 570.

Your problem - go to device manger to video adapter and disable it prior to installing new ATI driver, install new ATI driver with new card already installed and monitor attached to new card.

Is it understandable?
 
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