To stop onboard graphic card working

[satimis]

Hi folks,

I have an ASUS A8N-VM socket 939 motherboard which has an onboard graphic card. I looked around on the BIOS page and can't resolve how to stop it working. Because I'm going to replace it with a Gigabyte PCI-E nVidia GeForce 6600 256DP2 card.

Please advise. TIA

B.R.
satimis

[JayMan8081]

According to this (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/77909774/m/924000436731/p/2) thread you can change the preferred order for your video or one person suggests that the onboard graphics should automagically shutoff when you plugin a PCIe video card. HTH.

[satimis]

Hi JayMan8081,

Tks for you link and advice.

I tried before and the PCI-E graphic card seemed working. This is a newly built PC with following config;

Athlon 64 939 socket 3000+
Motherboard - Asus A8N-VM with built-in LAN and sound
Ram - DDR400 dual channel twin 1024M (512Mx2)
PCI-E graphic card - Gigabyte nVidia GeForce 6600 DP2 256M
SATA II 80G 8M cache 7200 rpm
Sony DVD writer DUR-820A

I have been trying a day and failed to get FC5_64 and even FC5 to work on this PC. Installation completed without much problem but both of them on booting with a blank screen resulted. Or started finally but the mouse pointer hung while working. On switching to "init 2" or "init 3" I was unable to login as root. The PC hung finally compelling me to hit the "reset" button.

I also tried Ubuntu LiveCD on this PC. Either it failed to start with a blank screen resulted. OR started on Gnome desktop and the mouse pointer hung during working resulting in the PC hung as well.

I have been looking around on the BIOS pages, unable to discover how to disable the on-board graphic card or on-board LAN.

Now I remove the PCI-E card and am prepared to install FC5_64 again to see what will happen.

B.R.
satimis

[saikee]

The blank screen and the hung mouse are more to do with the Xwindows setting.

You can press ctrl+alt+backspace to drop back into Bash shell and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Just try different settings to get each component working and then kick start the Xwindows by "startx".

That was how I did mine as up to now I still have no clue of what my onboard PCI Express graphic card is. One distro picked "vesa" and I applied to other distros. The setting of the mouse is less straight forward because it can be dependent on the version of the xorg.