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Thread ID: 64969 2006-01-03 07:40:00 How to test damaged video card ? Soulgolem (9491) Press F1
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417655 2006-01-03 07:40:00 Hello, I think my freeze ups are due to my vidéo card, so I thought i'd test my system without it, my motherboard "ASUS P4S533-VM" has a port to plug a CRT monitor, but nothing happens when i plug my monitor to it... I don't have another video card to make the test... Any ideas how i could check if my video card is the real problem ?

Thanks.
Francis.
Soulgolem (9491)
417656 2006-01-03 07:49:00 Try another monitor? Speedy Gonzales (78)
417657 2006-01-03 07:56:00 My monitor is not the problem, I only get an image when going to the video card, and nothing when going directly to my motherboard's CRT output. Soulgolem (9491)
417658 2006-01-03 07:59:00 Change the setting in the BIOS to use your onboard graphics first. pctek (84)
417659 2006-01-03 07:59:00 if your monitor works with the existing video card then the monitor isn't the problem

if as you say, the board has onboard video and you are using an addon card you will have to remove the addon card completely for the onboard to work

before you remove it though go into the bios and look for an option to disable or enable the onboard video
some bios's will have this option, others will not, and the bios will just automatically detect an addon card and disable the onboard video with no intervention needed from the user
bartsdadhomer (80)
417660 2006-01-03 08:01:00 Remove the video card and enable on-board video in the bios for your motherboard. You can't run both together.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
417661 2006-01-03 08:01:00 Hmm funny how u cant put 2 cards in, if one is onboard.

BUT u can put 2 PCI cards in, or 1 AGP/PCI card. And it'll work.

If the video isnt onboard.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
417662 2006-01-03 08:10:00 some boards will run onboard and a pci in tandem
but i don't think there are any that will allow an agp card and the onboard together for the obvious reason that they will both be wanting to use the agp bus
bartsdadhomer (80)
417663 2006-01-03 08:19:00 My advice was based on the KISS principle:

Keep It Simple, Stupid!

The fewer devices you have running, the faster you will get your answers. Maybe you could run both together, but why try? You want to prove that you can get on-board video first and foremost, then get complicated.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
417664 2006-01-03 08:40:00 My advice was based on the KISS principle:

Keep It Simple, Stupid!

The fewer devices you have running, the faster you will get your answers. Maybe you could run both together, but why try? You want to prove that you can get on-board video first and foremost, then get complicated.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
what the hell was that all about
bartsdadhomer (80)
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