Re: [Hampshire] Build woes

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Author: Isaac Close
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Build woes
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 17:20 +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
>

Hi Rob,
>
> Question first – details later: If you have a PC with a graphics card
> working fine, then remove the graphics card and connect your monitor
> to the onboard VGA – shouldn’t this work straightaway? I’ve heard of
> needing to disable onboard vga when fitting a new card but not having
> to re-enable onboard when removing a graphics card. Any ideas?
>
>

Sometimes, a mobo BIOS has a setting called something like 'primary
display adapter', or similar. In most cases is has 2 options, they could
be any two of onboard/pci/agp/pcix/pcie.

Most mainboards should auto detect, some don't and this setting needs to
be set manually.

hope that helps,

Isaac





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