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onboard video + 2nd video adapter?
Name: SSP Date: June 1, 2003 at 18:08:36 Pacific OS: Win98 CPU/Ram: AMD 2200+/512 mb
Comment:
I've tried putting a ATI Rage 128 video adapter into the AGP port on my Biostar M7VIG PRO motherboard. It worked fine, but the onboard S3 automatically got disabled. It automatically send video only to the AGP card.
I've seen some discussions on people wanting to turn off the onboard video. In fact, I wanted both to work, and Windows wouldn't recognize the S3 anymore.
Has anyone tried getting the onboard video AND an AGP card to work at the same time? I was interested in doing this since my AGP card has a TV out function.
I think I understand... So the onboard graphics is actually a sort of "onbard AGP" system? I wasn't sure how it connected to the rest of the motherboard. The manual for the M7VIG PRO leaves much to be desired. Presumably then if you had used a PCI-slot video adapter, then you could have that in addition to the onboard video?
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Response Number 3
Name: ben rogers Date: June 1, 2003 at 19:34:59 Pacific
Reply:
spot on...a pci gfx card won't disable the onboard graphics and can be used at the same time as the onboard. i think there are sometimes problems if the pci card is in the pci slot nearest the agp slot.
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