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78267	2002-09-10 10:09:00	Can anyone tell me if i can disable the on board graphics card on my 3 year old compaq Presario Desktop. Motherboard is FIC CE31-A. I have tried the bios with no luck and can't find any jumpar settings. I tried to install a Nividia PCI but ended up with two monitors in my displey settings and when I selected the Nividia card as primary I could only see my background on the monitor and now other settings like the start button etc. I am running Win ME. Any help would be appreciated.	ballie (1836)
78268	2002-09-10 10:29:00	Often OEM bioses do not allow disabling of the on-board video, and you are left with both active. This is done for cost savings I believe, stops people fiddling and disabling video, and the resulting calls to the help desk! Depending on your operating system it should be possible to allocate the add-on card as your primary display and then you can ignore it. It will still use valuable system resource but that all you can have in some cases. I know XP will do it, so ME should. When you cant see much on-screen, right click and select properties, settings, and select 800 X 600 or higher as it will have defaulted to 640 x 480 resolution	godfather (25)
78269	2002-09-10 22:45:00	Thanks for that. When you say "ignore it" do you mean the on board card I suppose you do. I said I could not see anything on the monitor when I used the second card. What I mean is there is no icons on the desktop or start menu showing. In other words all I have is my background setting. If I try to change anything or right click on it I can't see what is happening unless I plug the monitor back into the onboard slot. This sound so complicated but I hope you know what I mean.	ballie (1836)
78270	2002-09-11 01:09:00	Yes I know what you mean, but you need to alter the settings to make the new card the primary monitor, and then it will behave just like the on-board one did. The main difference is that you will see nothing on it until almost the end of the booting process as all boot info goes to the old one until it gets to the point of recognising that video card 2 is the primary. Its a tricky process, and I cant remember all the steps. You can try to disable the old one under control panel - system-device manage but I think I found that it just keeps recognising it and reinstalling. It was a matter of selecting the second one as the primary under the display settings available from right clicking the desktop - properties - settings - advanced I think.	godfather (25)
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