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Plug-in graphics card supresses on-board video

Tags: card, graphics, video
I have been working with dual monitors via the on-board ATI graphics (Sapphire Radeon Xpress 200) and a PCI Express RADEON X600.

After an incident, I am trying to rebuild the (Windows 2000 system). I find that I can use the on-board graphics output until I plug the X600 in. Then the on-board adapter disappears from the system. It cannot be found in under Display adapters in the Device Manager.

I must have done this in the past, but I can't remember how.
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Zone: Computer Hardware
Question Asked By: GrahamSkan
Solution Provided By: burrcm
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Solution Grade: A
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Comment by burrcm
Apologies for the delay getting back. My comment was generic, generally the option is to enable / disable the onboard regardless of the init options. Most HP and Dell machines will do this, and others I have built using various boards over the years. PCI express has changed the setups somewhat, but typically with AGP boards you can only use one AGP device, so an AGP card will always disable the onboard AGP, but a PCI card will allow the option to enable the onboard AGP. The nuances of PCI Express are still a bit of a mystery. What is your board, there may be discussion about it? Perhaps a bios update would simplify matters.

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Chris B
 
 
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