Hi Rob,
I've had several BIOSes fail to pick up removal of a PCIe card (or it
assumes you know best), and therefore doesn't both flipping the setting
back.
It may be worth reinstalling the card, flipping the setting, verifying
you have onboard output, and then removing the card.
Regards,
Chris
On 06/10/12 17:20, Rob Malpass wrote:
Hi all
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?
I have a PC I'm trying to upgrade. For 4 years it's been running
Hardy reasonably soundly but the graphics card configuration was a
real pig (NVidia GeForce 8400GS made by Zotac). During upgrade, the
new installer (latest Ubuntu) failed to detect the card and no matter
how much faffing (yes I did backup xorg.conf) did the trick. Several
other distros also failed to boot into a GUI and even when they booted
from liveCD, the install process failed on 1^st boot from hdd.
So, as I'm now utterly fed up with this graphics card and I don't need
any demanding graphics from this box, I've removed the card and
connected to the onboard VGA. Result: No video output at all despite
everything else looking ok -- it makes a noise, I see hdd activity etc.
Have I forgotten anything ? It's been a while since I've done any
"surgery" on a PC.
Cheers
Rob
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