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Installing video card in HP comp.
Name: David8F Date: December 23, 2003 at 14:17:10 Pacific OS: Win ME CPU/Ram: Celeron 700Mhz/128MB RAM
Comment:
Hey,
I'm trying to install a ATI Radeon 7000 64MB video card into my HP Pavillion XE 748 which has onboard video. Apparently HP says you can't disable the onboard video at all... There has to be a way... I know device manager can't do it, but does anyone know a way to "cheat" to disable it???
Name: capt Date: December 23, 2003 at 15:55:39 Pacific
Reply:
Have you checked the bios settings?
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Response Number 2
Name: David8F Date: December 23, 2003 at 17:14:44 Pacific
Reply:
The only thing I can do in BIOS is change the "Video boot type". It is either 1MB onboard video or 512Kb onboard video. It says I should have an option to disable on the side, but there is none... I sound retarded, but I'm quite computer literate and it's not there.
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Response Number 3
Name: capt Date: December 23, 2003 at 17:47:14 Pacific
Reply:
Then the HP tech staff were correct, it cannot be disabled. If you simply must, you could see if there is a bios update that you could use to disable the onboard video and then install a video card. I would only take this extreme step if it was absolutely necessary. If something goes wrong during the flash, the motherboard is history.
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Response Number 4
Name: wawadave Date: December 23, 2003 at 22:31:05 Pacific
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hello some times theres a jumper that needs to be set on the mobo. when in bios you can highlight the bios option and click enter it will on some bios open up a lst of options for highlighted feature.
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