Graphics card setup help!!!?

I have just upgraded my pc with an ace grapics card on a new ASUS A8V-VM motherboard. I initially set it up at my brothers house and it was spot on, everything worked but i noticed he installed the drivers for the graphics utility on the motherboard. I did not worry about it.

Problem is when i got home and coupled it all up ,none of my games would work, they always crashed.

Like a dumbass i had connected my monitor cable to the mother board graphics card instead of my ace graphics card port.

I swopped the connections.

Now i can only view windows through my motherboard graphics card, when i plug it into my ace graphics card port and it wont also detect the new graphics card.

I have reformatted, been in the add hardware options, and tried to re-install drivers but it will not accept them and install them.

I cannot find a way of disabling my motherboard graphics card so that it detects my new graphics card.

Poss bio`s? and if so how do i do it, BIOS is not my forte.

Graphics card setup help!!!?

agreed with MB, and crownpc

if its onboard then it definatly sounds like a bios issue to me

i had to do the same thing to make my 24bit soundcard work, it was in the advanced bios settings tab, but my mainboard bios is Biostar so i dont think telling u how i did it wud b any help :( the onboard card is still useable without re-enabling it on the bios page for some reason lol

Graphics card setup help!!!?

Definitely this needs to be changed in your bios to go from the onboard controller to the new one.

Graphics card setup help!!!?

Boot up in safe mode, press F8 while the PC is rebooting. Go into the control panel were it lists all the hardware stuff and delete the display and anything to do with graphics. You may think this is crazy but windows (bless) will find the hardware when you boot up again. This should solve the issue you have.

Graphics card setup help!!!?

Sounds like you need to change the setting in the BIOS to use the new graphics card and not the motherboard graphics.

The manual for your BIOS is here

ftp://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socke...

(Quite a large document - takes a while to open)

Look at p63 in Chapter 2 on how to set your BIOS to use the new card and not the onboard graphics.

Graphics card setup help!!!?

Just try and uninstall and shut down, and then physically remove the graphics card. Restart your computer, shut it down again. Plug in the graphics card again(fully inserted - might have to puch hard). and restart. If it doesnt work...

In your BIOS, look for an option like "Onboard Graphics.......Enabled" or something like that and Disable it.

Graphics card setup help!!!?

A imilar thing happened to me. To resolve this I Had to check that my old graphics card had been successfully uninstalled, or else your new drivers are a waste of space.