Turning off on-board video

[speed01]

Anyone know if one can turn off the on-board video on an NEC Ready9732 PC? If so, how??

 

[SaiyanGoku]

You should be able to do that in bios.

 

[speed01]

I've looked through the bios settings and there is no way to disable it there. I've also looked at the jumpers and can't find any way of turning it off there either. I'm pretty much out of ideas right now. I was hoping that someone has found a way of doing it maybe through software or something but I'm probably out of luck. Thanks for the reply though

 

[bot2600]

You should be able to boot up in multi monitor mode with onboard and a pci card. Then you could always disable the onboard in control panel and use the pci as your primary. You might be unable to see your msdos portion of boot up that way once you remove the monitor from the onboard though. That solution wont work with onboard/agp though. I am surprised if it is an agp that the onboard does not auto disable, it should when you boot up with an AGP card.

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[speed01]

The only problem is that if I install the PCI card, I lose all video. I was thinking about disabling the on-board in windows, then shutting down and installing the PCI card, then re-booting. The only question there is; if I screw the whole thing up, will an old ISA card get me going again in order to fix it or will I be SOL? I'm thinking the ISA would do the trick but wanted some other input before I tried it..
Thanks.