installing video card

[Guest]

When I installed my card into my Dell 8300 I didn't have to, oh yeah, I did
have to uninstall my video card. It came with a nvidia I think 5500? Anyways,
I just bought an eVGA, 4000 MX 128M PCI NV94-LX EVGA for 52 bucks before
taxes. It was going for 59.99 at PC Club in Hawthorne, but when I showed him
a read-out from new egg.com that said 43 bucks + 3 bucks shipping and
handling. Well he dropped it 8 bucks. Can't complain. Anyways I want to
install it into my Compaq Presario 5000 A Series computer, but I'm not sure
if I have to uninstall the integrated graphics on my motherboard. I asked at
the techs at PC Club and they said " some motherboards you should and some
you shouldn't ". I love their answer. Well, should I go into BIOS and
uninstall the present graphics on my motherboard for the Compaq?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

All you need to do is to open your BIOS and disable
the setting for the onboard video, then enable AGP.

Accessing Motherboard BIOS
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

How To Install A Video Card
http://www.smartcomputing.com/Edito...cle=articles/2004/w1510/17w02/17w02.asp&guid=

How to Install a Video Card on a Computer
http://www.ehow.com/how_5570_install-video-card.html

How to Upgrade and Install a Video Card
http://www.directron.com/howtovideo.html

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| When I installed my card into my Dell 8300 I didn't have to, oh yeah, I did
| have to uninstall my video card. It came with a nvidia I think 5500? Anyways,
| I just bought an eVGA, 4000 MX 128M PCI NV94-LX EVGA for 52 bucks before
| taxes. It was going for 59.99 at PC Club in Hawthorne, but when I showed him
| a read-out from new egg.com that said 43 bucks + 3 bucks shipping and
| handling. Well he dropped it 8 bucks. Can't complain. Anyways I want to
| install it into my Compaq Presario 5000 A Series computer, but I'm not sure
| if I have to uninstall the integrated graphics on my motherboard. I asked at
| the techs at PC Club and they said " some motherboards you should and some
| you shouldn't ". I love their answer. Well, should I go into BIOS and
| uninstall the present graphics on my motherboard for the Compaq?
|
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| attilathehun1

 

[Guest]

Carey I'm taking about PCI and it's and old PCI so I don't think it's PCI
Express. I don't think. I'm taking a class at el camino but I'm not on that
part of a lesson yet and I think it's not explained although I'm on lesson 8
and the last lesson, 12 just got released on last Friday. Each lesson is 5
chapters with 1 and 5 being introduction and summary mostly. Anyways, yeah I
don't have AGP. So can you explain once more. My question is do I go into
BIOS and disable the sound even though I don't have a video card in my
computer, it's running off the motherboard?

 

[peterk]

You go into the BIOS and disable onboard video.
Before you do that you need to uninstall the video drivers for the
onboard,then disable the onboard.
then shut down and install that PCI video Card....reboot and be prepared to
install the new drivers
peterk