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What are the bios settings for installing a pci express based video adapter. Inspiron 580 locks in the on-board video card

Set up bios to use pci-express video adapter such as NVIDA. CCTK? how to use?

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Contact your PC's manufacture and ask for the proper settings or you may be able to Google search it by typing in your PC make and Model and then ask how the bios settings are supposed to be set at.

I’m happy to help further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/phillip_293d34ebcf028794

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 06, 2007

SOURCE: video graphics card

being a PCI card, not a AGP or PCI-E the system may not simply switch to that one a primary display adapter when you install it, in the bios under advanced system settings or intergrated periferals, you should have an option to change the primary display adapter, make sure a PCI adapter is included.. if it isnt, chage it to recognise a PCI card as a primary adapter, turn the system off, and install your card then, depending on the bios/model of the mainboard on some of those dells, it may be a little hard to find, ive had to play with a few of them

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Ralph Walekr

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  • Posted on Feb 17, 2009

SOURCE: VGA monitor won't work on Dell XPS210

Is the connection different. If so you need a VGA to DVI converter. You can get this at Best Buy or Fry's or any computer store.

The memory issue should not be related. Go to control panel and then to the system icon and click system is should show the memory. You can also go in to the system bios to see actually how much you have. When the system boots. It should give you an option to go to the setup screen. The screen goes by quick so you may need to reboot a couple of times.

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jose_v17

Jose Velazquez

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  • Posted on Mar 24, 2009

SOURCE: Compatibility of PCI-EXpress card for Dell GX280 (Small Dextop)

So if this is a slimline pc you are kind of limited in upgrade options
space being the biggest , then being followed with cooling ability, the best advice I can give you if specs say 350 is needed i wouldn't chance having the card pull more of a load off of the PSU than what is rated for it. Hope this helps

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 20, 2009

SOURCE: Black screen with new PCI video card

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dante777

C. Dante

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  • Posted on Jul 23, 2009

SOURCE: Optiplex 520 pci video cards Dual monitors & Vista

There is a work-around for Vista. Look here.

A little bit down you can read:
"A user could force the installation of a XPDM driver for each of these devices, and therefore get heterogeneous multi-adapter multi-monitor to work as in Windows XP."

If you can go that way depends mainly on the manufacturer of the video card driver.

If you are going to sell all your nice 22" monitors - let me know...;-)

If you have any more questions, just come back here and leave a comment - I'm happy to help.

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HOW TOI DISABLE ONBOARD GRAFIC AND INSTALL NVIDIA GRAFIC CARD

fit the graphic card to your pci-e port of the mother board
on bootup press F2 to edit the CMOS/BIOS options
and disable the VGA graphics or noboard graphics there
ENABLE PCIE graphics.
save the settings
boot to windows
upon boot install new drivers for PCI-E card
restart the pc
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I have an Asrock Alive NF7G-FullHD motherboard. The pci-e slot is not working what maybe the problem of these boards? I have 4pieces of these boards all have the same problem. Thanks for your input.

You have to change the BIOS settings for the Primary Graphics Adapter. Restart the system and go to BIOS Setting and Change the Primary Graphics Adaptor to [PCI Express]
(This item will switch the PCI Bus scanning order while searching for video card. It allows you to select the type of Primary VGA in case of multiple video controllers.)
The default value of this feature is [PCI]. Configuration options:
[PCI], [Onboard] and [PCI Express].

Asrock Alive NF7G-FullHD User Manual
Please refer to Page 46 of the above Manual

Hope it helps! Good Luck!
CreativeTECH
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I can't get my board to recognize my ATI Radeon x300 se in the pcie pnp will not even recognize it.

You must enter the bios menu and set the video controller to boot to the PCIe first. Save and exit the bios. The proper orders when installing a PCI-E card is as follows; before you install you’re new video card onto the motherboard. Install the graphics cards software. Than shut down the system. Install the video card. Boot system and enter the bios menu. Go to and open Advance.
Open North Bridge Configuration
See page 4-23 in manual.

Internal Graphics Adapter should be set to [PEG/PCI]
Internal Graphics Mode Select should be set to [Disabled]
PEG Port Control set to [Auto]

Save you're changes and exit the bios. You should be able to boot to you're PCI-E graphics card now.

Cheers'
Mike
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My computer will not boot properly or show video with new radeon hd 4550 card installed. How can I fix this? I've unistalled previous card's drivers and think I've disabled on board adapter, but its still...

The pci express slot on that computer is an option, so it may not be enabled automatically when shipped, I would suggest rebooting and go into the BIOS settings and make sure the PCI slot is enabled. Then strile F10 to save and exit, reboot and try it again.
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My biostar g31 -m7 te motherboard does not boot when i try to add a msi rx800 pcie video card,,sometimes i get a overclock fail message after i remove the card and reboot,,,how do i get this card to work...

Turn the computer off.
Remove the PCI-E video-card.
Boot the computer.
Press DEL to "enter BIOS setup".
Disable the "onboard video" adapter,
or set the highest video-priority to be the PCI-E slot.
Save settings, but do not "exit" from BIOS setup.
Turn the computer off.
Install the PCI-E video-card.
Disconnect the video-cable from the onboard VGA-port,
and connect the video-cable to the new video-card.
Turn the computer on, and the video-output through the new video-card should be displayed on your monitor.
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No video output

Depending on your computer/motherboard there is either a bios setting or jumper you must disable to router video to your graphics card. It is probably still trying to output video on your integrated video card.

Hope this helps,
Bill
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I recentl reformatted my computer and although I have been able to ascertain the make and model of my Graphics card I can still not succesfully install/update the drivers and get it working.

And you re-checked your BIOS and it has the right 512mb and PCI adapter setting. You also might try in the hardware device manager since I know the software usually does it. You may be stuck between the 2 videos adapters your using too. Make sure the BIOS is set for the card's PCI. does it have a little e' to it.
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HP (Hewlett-Packard) Asus P5BW-LA no video from pci express card, changed pci card then motherboard,still no video.If there is a driver involved I can't check because I have no on board video. Maybe...

first check your BIOS setting...f2 or DELETE will get you into bios....

change video settings from onboard or vga to PCI_EX.
save and exit..reboot

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