How do you disable the onboard graphics on an m4a89gtd mobo?

A discrete graphics card will overwrite the igp, so no need to bother with the bios.

I'm guessing you've made the age old mistake of forgetting to connect your monitor cable to the actual CARD though, not the igp slot on your mobo.  

so do i have to connect my vga cable to my gpu then? because i was using the hdmi cable  

Does your gpu not have an HDMI connection? If not, use the vga and you're ready to go.

it doesn't show any picture. I would use my vga or hdmi it wouldn't show any picture. My monitor would just go to power saving mode

Take the graphics card out and go back to what you had before, the HDMI running off the igp.

I assume that was working ok yes?

If you can get it back to this then we can continue and get it fixed.

In your BIOS there may be a setting under integrated peripherals to use either the onboard VGA or PCIE, not all motherboards automatically disable the onboard VGA if a discrete card is plugged in.

It's an asus 890gx so i'd be really surprised if it didn't disable the igp. It's worth a shot though I guess.

is there anyway to disable the graphics then?

Check in your BIOS by pressing the delete key when starting the machine.

i did it but i'm not sure what to do. i go to the igp controller and it says this other stuff which doesn't look like to disable the whole thing

He's already got into the bios.

In the IGP section, you probably have to use your arrow keys to highlight it, then press enter. After that you should be able to change the setting using the arrow keys again.

Bios's are still a black art...and I'd be amazed if that was why it wasn't working. Be warned, if you switch of the IGP and the graphics card isn't working, you are now into reset-bios territory, and there is no way I'm gonna explain that one lol.

I'm guessing you see stuff like GFX0-IGP-PCI ?

List the options you have there.

ok can you wait a bit then?

This page is useless to you psychohistory.

This one has the options at the bottom. You should be able to put "internal graphics mode" to disabled.

so is it the one with the gfx engine clock override then near the ai tweaker?

You should be able to change them around so that it says PCI-GFX0-IGP or something like that.

I honestly don't think this will work btw   But you seem determined to disable the igp.

Are those links I posted dead btw? I can't see them now.

there not dead. but the pci-gfx0-igp was set there. i have no clue why itsstill using the igp. lemme check ok

It can't use the IGP if nothing is connected to it.

Take the HDMI cable out of the IGP slot.

nothing was connected to it. the card is a 768mb gtx 460 by galaxy. do you think the mobo needs a bios update to support the card because im guessing the gtx 460 came out after the the mobo or am i wrong. im banging my head now because of this  

Do you not have a page like this in your BIOS?

You don't need a bios update to run a graphics card.

Just install the card by itself in your pci-e slot, put your vga cable into the back and switch it on.

Did you plug the pci-e connectors into the card btw? The 2 6-pins that need to be connected to the back of the card INSIDE the pc.

i have one like that but one thing i noticed was the primary graphics adapter was only PCI by itself. for me its PCI-GFX0-IGP or something like that

yes everything is plugged in buddy and i can feel the air coming from the fan of the card. if i remember correctly i have that switch card on the secondary pci x16 slot

Then try each one in turn.

Try switching the cards around in the slots too btw. By "switch card" you mean a dummy card right?

Even though there is no single word like PCI/ i guess ill ty all the combinations. Hope it woks and it will ake me a couple of minutes

yes the dummy card. the dummy card is on the secondary slot as usual.

i noticed the page is a bit different grrrr/ im still trying the options though

i hope not though im still trying to disable it

i might reinsert the card when i have the time to check if its broken or not. But right now thanks for the help

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