change the onboard video adapter

adrian8311 · #1 12-02-2003, 12:12 AM

Hi,
My motherboard comes with it's own video adapter, in other words, i don't need another video card, but how if I want to upgrade that? Can I just plug the new video card into my motherboard? Do I have to disable the onboard video card first? How can I made it to use the new one but not the onboard one? Thanks.

Adrian

beeboy · #2 12-02-2003, 12:16 AM

Might help if you gave us some info on your hardware. What kind of motherboard would help a lot. Thanks

adrian8311 · #3 12-02-2003, 02:45 AM

My motherboard is ASUS A7N266-VM. Thanks.

Adrian

NO^GUN · #4 12-02-2003, 06:07 AM

just put in a new video card and plug ur monitor into it
done

umm make sure u got an agp slot otherwise ull be using the good old tnt2 or gf2 pci cards which, well from experience i can say, u dont want to

curtybob · #5 12-02-2003, 10:09 PM

As a rule of thumb, always disable the onboard video when you plug in another card. I don't even use it when running dual monitor. The onboard vid uses it's own form of AGP bus, so 2 AGP cards don't play nicely together.