permanantly removing an onboard video controller

[djallen]

i recently upgraded my old gateway g6-300 from windows 98 to win 2000. i was unable to find a driver for the video controller, which is integrated into the motherboard. so i bought a radeon 7000 video card that fits into the pci slot. when i boot up, the gateway splash screen is shown, then the monitor loses its source and the computer just sits there running, but not booting up. also, the floppy disk drive light will be lit during the entire hang.

i've tried uninstalling the old video controller. however, each time i boot up(without the new card in the slot) the "new hardware wizard" starts adn attempts to install the old v. controller.

i've also gone into the boot setup and made sure that it is set to use a pci vga component.

any suggestions???

 

[SYAR2003]

Try to let the hw wizard find the onboard one ,
then set it to disabled(not used in this hw profile)in
device manager .(if it can't be disabled by jumpers or in bios)
Manually allocate resources in bios for the new pci
device/slot can also be useful.
syar

 

[SYAR2003]

Note!
Hw-wizard finds the onboard , disable it in dev-mgr.
shutdown.
Install new pci video card .
se how it goes.

 

[djallen]

i have attempted to disable it from the device manager. and i have also set the bios to look for a pci display card. after disabling the onboard, the new card has worked a couple times. but once the new hardware finds the onboard one (loading windows), i have to go to the device manager and disable it each time before shutting down. do you guys know of any way to permanentally remove the onboard card?

 

[1stITMAN]

You should be able to disable it in the bios.

I.T Systems Support Engineer
Bsc. (Hons).

 

[dakota81]

Your bootup problem is occurring before Win2000 ever gets a chance to load... that rules out the possibility of the issue being driver related. Sounds to me like that video card may not work altogether in your machine. There are different revisions of the pci slot, and sometimes you get a pci card that just doesn't work at all. Sometimes it's the slot, where moving to a different slot will get it working again, and some placing it into any will result in failure even though the pci card is fine.

Every time you boot up without the pci card in, yes, Win2000 will load the drivers for the onboard video, there is no getting around that. Besides, that is not the cause your problems anyways.

 

[CVXKBSU]

You need to disable the video card in bios to ensure that the onboard video is not detected. Once this is done the newer radeon will be detected.

REgards

Ken Summers