Ryan314 Posted June 21, 2008 CID Share Posted June 21, 2008 My friend has a custom built pc which is prolly about 5 years old. He has a problem with the graphics card thats built into the mother board.. it wont work. So he added on a pci graphics card but its terrible. He was wondering if there was any way to fix the onboard graphics card so I tried installing drivers and such but nothing worked. I tried getting to the bios on his computer but it doesnt even give you an option on startup so im kinda out of ideas help would be appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted June 21, 2008 CID Share Posted June 21, 2008 i don't have the answer...but i'll watch this for a bit and if there's not an answer soon i'll move it to the main board for visibility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 21, 2008 CID Share Posted June 21, 2008 By wont work do you mean, when you have a monitor plugged in nothing shows up on the display? Also, make sure the PCI video card is not in the computer when you are trying to get it to work. Most motherboards will turn off the onboard card when a discrete video card is in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlucardHS Posted June 21, 2008 CID Share Posted June 21, 2008 On-board Video is Crap, PCI cards for video is Crap as well. If he has a AGP port tell him to use that and get a good card for it. Also on-board video should auto off on by the BIOS. If its custom try hitting the Delete key or one of the Function keys should let you in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan314 Posted June 22, 2008 Author CID Share Posted June 22, 2008 yeah both of them were in when we were trying it, I'll pull the PCI one out next time. And yeah nothing shows with the onboard. The onboard is better than the PCI one he has so thats why he wants to use that but it wont work. And he's not trying to buy a new card so the agp is out of the question.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted June 22, 2008 CID Share Posted June 22, 2008 You need to pess an " F " key to access the bios, if thats what you mean by " it wont even give an option on start up ". Many times it's F2 , or F12 , or the delete key. If none of these work, then hell try another, but you could look up the user guide on the MB online, and find out what key it is. During post I always tap the key until the bios comes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan314 Posted June 22, 2008 Author CID Share Posted June 22, 2008 yeah his computer is totally fuxed it totally skips the screen where you can access bios and goes right to windows so idk. We found some link on the INTEL website and managed to get the onboard card working. problem solved lmao thanks for the help tho everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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