Please help disable my onboard SIS video card :-(

[daydreams223]

Hi! I have this mobo

http://www.pcwave.com/prod-935almu.html

and American Megatrends Version 1.21.12 of BIOS. I have onboard video and I just bought an AGP ATI Radeon 9000 Pro video card. I did everything that the instructions said for me to do. I got a black screen when I hooked my monitor up to the ATI...from the time that I started my computer. Windows did not detect my ATI card. I tried to install the drivers for the card anyway but it didn't work either. I went into BIOS and I changed the Primary Graphics adapter from PCI to AGP. There was no obvious setting in BIOS to disable the on board video card. I contacted the guy that sold me the computer and he told me that the video card would need to be "disabled" for it to work. That i would need a "technition" I don't know any other way to disable it. I've seen pages saying about "may need to jumper", "there may be a switch on the board" or "may be a simple adjustment in BIOS" I need help a little more specifically. I want to do this myself....but I don't know how. I currently have it in my AGP slot for the time when I get some answers.... Please give me some answers...

 

[wlpsyp]

By looking at this link for the MB, I do not see a video connector on it. Is this the same exacte board in the picture you have? Have had alot of problems with the ATI cards to get to work. Easiest way and fastest way that I have found to get it to work when building systems for perople that want the ATI cards is to load a "generic" PCI video card, get it up and running with the new PCI card and then install the ATI card. DO you have any drivers such as the VIA 4x1 drivers to enable the AGP slot? If this board does have on board video, then to disable it is done one of three ways as you said. BIOS Setting, Jumper or DIP Switch

 

[ANFPS26]

Some mobos can only disable onboard video in device manager.
Click on "disable in this hardware profile". You will have to put up with a red "X" under "Display Adapter". This may not apply to you, but sometimes it's the only way. Jim

Please come back and let us know if your
problem is fixed and what fixed it!!

 

[daydreams223]

Well...I kicked myself in the butt when I figured it out after submitting the problem. It happened to be that I didn't put the card all the way in the slot. With the angle that I inserted it, it did not allow it to go any further! I took the card out then reinserted it, it automatically disabled the onboard video. Thanks for your help, but I did figure it out on my own. I will definately come back if there are any more problems.

Thanks,

brian

 

[ANFPS26]

Jim

Please come back and let us know if your
problem is fixed and what fixed it!!