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2 video cards on the same system
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I've got an old celeron 333MHz, with all-in-one MOBO (mobo+sound+video) i want to install a new ATI AGP card with a TV-Out on it. Will the two cards conflict with each other??? How do i tell my PC to fully override the MOBO's in-built video chipset? I haven't bought the ATI TV-Out card yet, i'm just trying to figure out if what i wanna do is possible. Please, please reply quickly, the card's seller won't wait for me very long Thanks a lot |
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I've got an old celeron 333MHz, with all-in-one MOBO (mobo+sound+video)
i want to install a new ATI AGP card with a TV-Out on it. Will the two cards conflict with each other??? How do i tell my PC to fully override the MOBO's in-built video chipset? I haven't bought the ATI TV-Out card yet, i'm just trying to figure out if what i wanna do is possible. Yes its possible, you should have a bios option to specify the source of the primary graphics card, e.g. onboard / AGP / PCI. Once that is done, you can disable your old card. |
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:51:35 -0400, "Willy Radisson"
wrote: Hello, I've got an old celeron 333MHz, with all-in-one MOBO (mobo+sound+video) i want to install a new ATI AGP card with a TV-Out on it. Will the two cards conflict with each other??? How do i tell my PC to fully override the MOBO's in-built video chipset? I haven't bought the ATI TV-Out card yet, i'm just trying to figure out if what i wanna do is possible. Please, please reply quickly, the card's seller won't wait for me very long Thanks a lot Motherboards supporting a Celeron 333MHz are new enough that it's almost certain that onboard video would be using the AGP port, not PCI. What this means is that inserting an AGP video card (I'm assuming you do have, have confirmed the existence of an AGP slot on the board) will necessarily disable the onboard video. You likely need to nothing special, just power off the machine, unplug it, insert the AGP video card, plug monitor lead into it, and you're done. The BIOS settings for video are generally needed only when there's onboard AGP video but a PCI video card is used instead, or when both are used for dual monitor support, to choose which is the primary video initialized at POST. Having onboard AGP "ported" video built in makes it impossible for both the onboard video and added AGP card to be working at the same time, as the AGP "port" is a one-device-only situation. Dave |
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"Willy Radisson" wrote in message ...
Hello, I've got an old celeron 333MHz, with all-in-one MOBO (mobo+sound+video) i want to install a new ATI AGP card with a TV-Out on it. Will the two cards conflict with each other??? How do i tell my PC to fully override the MOBO's in-built video chipset? I haven't bought the ATI TV-Out card yet, i'm just trying to figure out if what i wanna do is possible. Please, please reply quickly, the card's seller won't wait for me very long Thanks a lot Try reading the motherboard manual. It should tell you if the onboard video can be over-ridden, and if so, how to do it. If you don't have the manual, try searching the manufacturer's website. HTH Andy |
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I just added an ATI Radeon to my system with an onboard vid. (wreaking havok
on the hackers by the way). You will need to utilize the software and read the manual. It's probably not plug 'n play. "Willy Radisson" wrote in message .. . Hello, I've got an old celeron 333MHz, with all-in-one MOBO (mobo+sound+video) i want to install a new ATI AGP card with a TV-Out on it. Will the two cards conflict with each other??? How do i tell my PC to fully override the MOBO's in-built video chipset? I haven't bought the ATI TV-Out card yet, i'm just trying to figure out if what i wanna do is possible. Please, please reply quickly, the card's seller won't wait for me very long Thanks a lot |
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