Video card problem?

Question

I recently bought a new motherboard and it has a video card built in, I however want to use my Nvidia video card instead. With my Nvidia card installed i get a bunch of lines thru my games, internet pages, etc. I think maybe both cards are trying to run at same time. How do i stop the motherboard card from interfering if that is the case. I have reinstalled my Nvidia card quite a few times so any sugestions will be greatly appreciated, thanks

Answer 1

Open device manager, in XP, right click My Computer>Properties>Hardware tab>Device Manager. Expand Video Adapters. Right click on your Video Adapter, select Properties on your 'on board' device. Disable it here.

Answer 2

You need to go into your BIOS Setup buy restrating your computer and usually it takes a hit on the F1 key but that depemds on the motherboard/BIOS manufacturer...when you start your computer the BIOS will show up on the screen before Windows starts...you will see on the bottom of the screen which key you need to press to access the BIOS...do so and go into the properties and look at your onboard video adapter...then disable it...but make sure the video card you want to use is installed before you do that!

Answer 3

What you do is this. Go into Device manager by clicking on CONTROL PANEL then click SYSTEM THEN click Hardware then device manager.

Go slow here...
At the top it says DISPLAY ADAPTERS
Click the + all the way to the right to expand that area.
If what you say is correct you'll see 2 things there instead of one. One will be your internal video the other will be your card you installed.

Now before you go onto the next step click on the one that shows your card and see if it says its working properly. There will be words there if you RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR DEVICE and then click PROPERTIES. If it says its working properly now go to next step below..

Go up to your internal card and do not uninstall no matter what but make sure you click DISABLE. It may ask you to reboot.

If it reboots and looks less quality that is actually good too. Just reinstall the drivers of the card you put in.

If it looks good go try the games.

Answer 4

Do the lines show up before the computer has booted into windows?

If not, it could be an IRQ conflict, though I haven't seen one of those in a while.

Your best bet would be to go into the bios and disable the onboard video, or set the default adapter to PCI-e or AGP depending on what you have.

Answer 5

The intergrated card shouldnt be doing that (as my mate has intergrated and a seperate card running) hmmm, it could be the connection of the moniter to the card, or the card to the motherboard, it shouldnt be a software proplem but just to be safe u may wanna download one from online or just from another sourse, good luck

Answer 6

When your computer starts up and shows the screen with your processor speed and ram and all that it usually says hit
( KEY ) to enter setup it is usually the del key. If you can get in there you should be able to deactivate your integrated graphics card but make sure that your other card is going to work or else you wont be able to see what you are doing so be careful.

Answer 7

Reboot your computer, while the computer is doing POST, it should offer a key to get into BIOS, generally Delete (different manufacturers keys check your manual of manufacturer's website), Hit the key offered Before the op system starts loading.
once into the BIOS you should find on one of the option screens the option to disable your internal video adapter.

Good Luck

Answer 8

you can try going into the device manager and disabling the built-in card
right click my computer>hardware tab>device manager>open display adapters>right click built in one (not nvidea)>click disable and then reboot

hope it helps

Answer 9

connect the VGA cable