Where did my graphic card go?

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It's there, and in the AGP slot but Windows still uses my on-board intell card.
No wonder most of my games crash.
Any idea on how to solve it?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '09 at 07:39

The first thing I would try is before you turn your computer on: plug in the monitor cable to the AGP-card - and nothing to the port of the on-board card.

You could try to disable the on-board graphics adapter. Read how you to do that in the documentation that came with your motherboard. You'll have to either set a physical jumper or a software BIOS setting, be sure you know the correct jumper (often labeled on the PCB, or how to change settings in your systems' BIOS.

Sometimes there is a setting in BIOS that allows the user to set either a PCI card or AGP card as the primary video device.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '09 at 07:29

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I know this sounds stupid, but did you plug your monitor into your new graphics card?

You might also have to enable it in your BIOS. An older computer of mine had this problem and it was fixed by simply enabling the graphics card in the BIOS

answered Jul 19 '09 at 07:29

Josh Hunt

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 19 '09 at 10:27

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Jump into your BIOS and disable the on-board card. Unless you're using it to run multiple monitors, that is.

answered Jul 19 '09 at 10:27

pgs

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Where did my graphic card go?

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