Video Drivers and Taking out V. Card

[cold2000us]

Hello,

I just sold my PC to someone and they have said that I can keep the video card that was in it. It is a Ti4800se. Now my question is do I just open the PC and take the card out of the AGP slot or do I have to do something before? Do I have to set it back to onboard graphics or something of that sort or can I just pull out the card and it will automatically go to onboard graphics.

I am running Windows XP SP2 Home Edition.

Any Help or assistance given would be really appreciated.

 

[MrChad]

What model motherboard do you have? I believe that most onboard graphics chips work in an automated fashion, i.e. they only enable themselves when an AGP card is not present. However, there may be some jumpers or BIOS settings that need adjusted in order to get the onboard graphics to work.

I would uninstall any and all display drivers for your current graphics card, shutdown the PC, reboot with the onboard, and install the onboard graphics drivers.

 

[cold2000us]

It is a sony vaio pcv-rx752

i dunno how to check what motherboard it is but the videocard was a addon.

the pc came with onboard graphics and my sister put in the video card.

 

[cold2000us]

just checked some stuff on my computer and found out it is a

ASUSTEK Computer INC. P4S266VX

 

[MrChad]

Sony doesn't offer too much documentation on this, so I'm going to go ahead and recommend the steps I listed above. Worst case scenario is that you boot up and there's no video, in which case you just need to power down and reinsert the video card (then we'll try and figure out what went wrong).