Fitting a new graphics card - help needed please

Sagz_2

I'm trying to fit a new graphics card (the blue monitor fitting on the pc was broken) but am a bit lost....
I've got the new card in the AGP slot ok but can't see how to disconnect the old one - it seems to be part of the pc and is not the slot-in sort like the new one. When I boot the pc is obviously using the old one as I get nothing on the screen.....
Any help or advice gratefully received


PC is Creative Slix barebone, Pentium 4 / Celeron 478-pin processor based DDR Mainboard
(means nothing to me but thats off the front of the manual!)

Reggie_Rebel

Sounds like the old one was an integral (attached directly to the motherboard) You'll need to disable that from the device manager

Sagz_2

Thanks Reggie - I can't get anything on the screen tho.....

esuhl

You can't remove the on-board graphics adapter (i.e. the one on the motherboard). You'll probably need to go into the BIOS settings to disable it, though... Hopefully the BIOS will output an image to both graphics cards so you can see what you're doing!

[Deleted User]

You need to disable the onboard vga through the bios, can you connect your monitor to the connector it was in previously or is that broken and no longer functioning?

Sagz_2

anewhope wrote: »

You need to disable the onboard vga through the bios, can you connect your monitor to the connector it was in previously or is that broken and no longer functioning?

There is a problem getting the signal from the pc to the monitor. Whether the monitor is connected via the original port or the new card there is nothing getting through onto the monitor screen.

Is there any way of 'turning off' the old graphics without visual on the monitor?

[Deleted User]

What brand and model is the motherboard?

Sagz_2

anewhope wrote: »

What brand and model is the motherboard?

As far as I can gather (from the manual) is that it's a FS51 motherboard on a Slix barebone creative (seefirst post).Apart from that I haven't a clue!

[Deleted User]

I can't find a copy of the manual myself online, but as you have yours, is there not a section about adding an AGP Graphics card or how to disable the onboard card? Unless there is a jumper on the motherboard, I'm not sure how else you could disable it without working off screenshots of the BIOS and blindly going through the menus..

Sagz_2

Can't find anything in the manual that seems useful at all.

Thanks for your help anewhope, I'm fast coming to the conclusion that my beloved 1st pc is in the process of dying......

Sagz_2

This seems to be the motherboard, if tahts any help
http://uk.shuttle.com/product_detail_spec.jsp?PI=605