Adding a video card to a supermicro p6swa

[nnassif]

Hello,
The manual does not really say how to disable the built-in graphics. I got an nvidea 64 in hopes to speed up my old pentium 3

 

[tecmo34]

Typically, the BIOS will default to the dedicated graphics card when installed, so you shouldn't need to disable the on-board for a successful boot.

 

[ko888]

The BIOS manual, page 4-8, for the SUPER P6SWA it states:

Default Primary Video

Choose External when using a PCI video card and Internal when using the onboard graphics. Although External is the default, if no video card is detected the onboard graphics will automatically be enabled.

Remembering way back when working on a motherboard similar to this one I've encountered IRQ conflicts that would stop a discrete PCI video card from being detected. The solution was to move the video card to another PCI slot or to play around with manual IRQ assignment.