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Need help switching to onboard graphics if possible

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February 3, 2014 10:02:33 PM

Problem: My computer recently became very loud and by taking my case off and sticking a pen in some fan blades I found out it was a noisy GPU fan (Radeon 6850). The company had me run some diagnostics and said I have a defective fan and it was still under warranty. I need to ship the part to them so their techs can verify it wasn't tampered with and has the defect. I would like to have a computer to surf the web in the meantime and I'm not sure if/how to use the onboard graphics.

My setup: I have an intel i3-2100 cpu with a biostar H61MLC motherboard. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate with 8GB RAM and 1TB hard drive. I have read that the i3-2100 has onboard graphics but haven't found a way to switch over from the dedicated card.

Question: How do I go from my dedicated Radeon 6850 to onboard graphics? Do I go through a BIOS setting? I would like to make sure I can use the computer with the onboard graphics before removing the Radeon 6850 card as I'm not sure how long it will take the company to finish their warranty protocol.

If I haven't given enough info then let me know what I am missing. Thanks.

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February 3, 2014 10:14:36 PM

The motherboard has a VGA out port for the monitor.

The BIOS "chipset" section menu requires a change to the Initiate Graphic Adapter setting to IGD (any IGD selection will work) from PEG/PCI (Default).
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