How to deactivate my onboard gpu?

[Raidio]

Hi!

One short question:
How can I deactivate an onboard gpu if

there is no feature to do this in my

phoenix bios?

I'd like to install a Radeon 9800 but

I'm not sure if Windows XP (or the

bios first) will accept it without

deactivating the onboard gpu...

Does anybody have a hint for me?

 

[Coyote]

What system have u got, an HP? In my limited experience those are the only systems which I have seen w/o a BIOS option to disable onboard gfx. My father had one and to upgrade by installing a card (a PCI at that cuz the HP didn't have an agp slot?) had to have a technician hard mod the board. Did this at the store he bought the card from (Best Buy)

Name your system, mobo really and possibly someone here can be of more help

XP 2000+
MSI KT3 ULTRA-2 KT333
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB PC2700
ABIT G4 Ti4200 OTES 64MB
Win98SE

 

[pIII_Man]

on most modern boards when you insert an agp card the onboard video automatically disables...i think it has something to do with the agp card taking the irq but not possitive.


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[Nights_L]

yeah, my cousin's pc does that, when I insert an AGP card into his computer, the onboard video automatically diables

 

[Crashman]

You didn't give us any system details. But most will do it automatically.

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[sturm]

my friend has a dell with the bios setup like yours. Installed a pci vid card, no agp slot. What you need to do is disable the onboard video in the device manager. Has worked just fine for him.

 

[Raidio]

Thx folks!
Ihis weekend I'm gonna do exactly as you suggested

 

[jimbo99]

Yeah, I believe you are right. Take the shuttle board with the 2 vga outs onboard. Insert a vga card and you can't use either of the ports to work with a second monitor. Whether this has to do with the fact that it has two vga outs I don't know.

I have one here with a spare gforce 4 ti 4200 that I might try to see if I can get the onboard to act as a 2nd monitor.

 

[TheMASK]

GOod Luck, but u still haven't mentioned what mobo u r talking about. I am just a little curious...

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