Please follow below steps to disable on-board VGA under BIOS and remove all VGA
drivers under Safe Mode to prevent PCI VGA card conflict issue.
Due to each motherboard manufacturer utilizes a different BIOS, please read the
motherboard manual to learn the way to access BIOS and to enter Safe Mode.
1) Back up entire video card driver
Before removing all VGA drivers, please back-up entire VGA driver in case you need
current VGA back to work.
For
On board video card
If you do not have drivers CD provided by motherboard manufacture,
please check the motherboard manufacture’s website to download the
driver.
For
Individual Video card
If you do not have drivers CD provided by video card manufacture, please
check VGA card manufacture’s website for driver; or check with
www.ati.com or www.nvidia.com to download the latest driver version.
2) Disable on-board VGA under BIOS
With PCI VGA card installed and connected
to a monitor, start your system into BIOS.
Please NOTE as each motherboard manu-
facturer utilizes a different BIOS, please
check the manual for the exact way to
access BIOS.
2-1)
Turn on computer, hit the hot-key
(usually to be
<Del>
or
<F10>
) once
your computer powers on to get into
BIOS screen.
2-2)
Find on-board VGA card or
primary VGA section under BIOS,
disable on board video or select PCI as primary VGA adapter. (Please review
motherboard manual for further details).
2-3)
Save and Exit
3) Remove entire VGA drivers under Safe Mode
3-1)
Once system is into Safe Mode, click on
Start -> Control Panel ->
Add/Remove Programs
to remove / un-install all display drivers and related
applications.
3-2)
Restart system into regular mode.
4) Install PCI VGA driver
If driver CD does not auto run, then choose co-responding application/driver from
My Computer > CD/DVD Rom.
Once driver installed successfully, PCI VGA card shall
work properly.
Screen Shot of setting up PCI VGA card as primary
display device.
PCI VGA CARD INSTALLATION GUIDE
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