My computer has a intregrated graphics card while it has a AGP slot, so I tryed to install a AGP graphics card on my motherboard but I learned that I have to disable the on board VGA (after finding that plugging the new video card in didn't do anything and the computer did not even sense it) so i went into the bios to disable the onboard graphics but learnt that there was no way to disable it. So I went searching on the ECS site for a bios update but learnt my motherboard was a mobo so I ended up not being able to find one.
So basicly what I'm thinking is that a newer bios will have a setting to diable the onboard VGA so here are some specs I took from bios agent plus and hopefully someone finds a bios update for me.
Manufacturer: ECS
Model: M925
BIOS type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 62-0627-001131-00101111-040201-VIA_P6
BIOS sign on: M925LR
BIOS date: 2002.06.27
Chipset: VIA 82C3148 rev 0
SuperIO chipset: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 2 at port 002E
I also have CPUZ incase you need anymore specs of my board. Thanks in advance!
Disabling Onboard VGA
the onboard VGA will be disabled when you plug in an AGP or PCI VGA card. did you check if the VGA card is compatible to the AGP slot? did you check if the card is working at all?
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I have a rage 128 pro AGP and a Nvidia Geforce GST/Geforce pro Agp card.
Also in the bios there is a setting that you can switch from agp to pci so i set it to pci and pluged in my rage 128 pro PCI card into a pci slot and it worked which confuses me even more about what the problem is.
Also in the bios there is a setting that you can switch from agp to pci so i set it to pci and pluged in my rage 128 pro PCI card into a pci slot and it worked which confuses me even more about what the problem is.
check this guide, your mainboard's agp slot and your vga cards:
http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html
http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html
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my motherboard has a universal agp slot and both my graphics cards have the 3.3 volt and 1.5 volt keys (universal AGP). I also used CPU-Z to find my AGP slot is version 2.0 and is 4x the only way my graphics cards would not work on my motherboard is if it had a AGP 3.0 slot, is there a way i could double check if my slot is version 2.0 with another program?
the mainboard bios seems quite old. maybe a bios update will help, though there's nothing listed like fixing AGP problems in the bios release information. check the pcchips page for an update.
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did you check the vga boot order? it should NOT be set to onboard to make the agp card the first vga device on boot. make sure your card has a monitor attached while switching the machine on.
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there is no vga boot order in my bios
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWebSite/Do ... =6&LanID=0
this manual for my motherboard shows all the screens in my bios
http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWebSite/Do ... =6&LanID=0
this manual for my motherboard shows all the screens in my bios