03-25-2008, 09:23 AM
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Adding a Video Card
I am presently using onboard video. I am ready to install a decent video card in the PCI-E slot. Before installing it, do I have to go inside the BIOS and change something or will the MB automatically find it?
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03-25-2008, 09:28 AM
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You might have to go into the BIOS and change the video card priority setting to PCI-E and/or disable the on-board video card.
Make sure that your power supply has enough juice to handle the faster/more-power-hungry video card.
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03-25-2008, 09:49 AM
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Many newer mobos will automatically find the video card.
I'd recommend just plugging it in, making all the power connections and then turning on the computer. If it auto recognizes the video card when it is connected to your monitor, then you are good to go. If it doesn't recognize it, then you must plug the monitor back into the onboard video port, then access the BIOS and change the video settings to the PCI-E slot per the advice that bachviet gave you earlier.  Good luck...
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03-25-2008, 10:02 AM
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03-25-2008, 04:17 PM
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Did i miss something? Is cheapie out to get johnny? Or just mocking his soup making skills?
Back to the thread, usually a video card will just work. And clearly if it doesn't , go to bios and fix it. How is PCI-Express? Is it pretty kick butt?
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03-25-2008, 08:53 PM
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2 thoughts here
1st- is that all in wonder motherboard worth putting a pci video card into. 2nd - make sure the video card is better then the one that came on the all in wonder motherboard. i realize you'll free up ram by putting a stand alone video card in the motherboard .but you may be better off waiting and just getting a new motherboard and starting off fresh! and selling the old board and putting that money on the new motherboard. just something to think about.
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03-25-2008, 08:59 PM
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Where did you get the idea that I have an All-in-wonder motherboard? I didn't even know that ATI made motherboards. It's a brand new motherboard with a Quad Core Q6600 processor. |
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03-25-2008, 09:00 PM
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right here (I am presently using onboard video.) |
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03-26-2008, 06:44 AM
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Are you assuming that he has the same mobo that you have? Lots of mobo manufactuers make "onboard video" motherboards... therefore yours might not be the same as his. |
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03-26-2008, 08:18 AM
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I thought reno was just referring to onboard video mobo's as an 'all in wonder' and not necessarily ATI's 'all in wonder'
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03-26-2008, 08:28 AM
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OK...I installed it, hooked up the VGA connector and I got a display. I kept on trying to install the drivers with the ATI CDROM running, but Windows XP Pro wouldn't find them under
Found New Hardware. So I ran the installation from the ATI CDROM and everything is installed except the HD audio(I think that's what it's called). There are no audio ports in this card, so I am assuming the yellow exclamation will disappear in Device manager as soon as I install a decent sound card? This is a TV out video card which I hope will give me better resolution to my XGA projector. |
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03-26-2008, 08:58 AM
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I'd go get the newest drivers from the ATI website. I almost never use the included CD drivers.
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03-26-2008, 10:03 AM
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