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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
