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How to install a new graphic card ?

By ccasttorres ·
I would like to know how to instal an 8 mb graphic accelrator into my m571 motherboard(PCHIPS) which has an onboard vga, I have tried disabling the onboard vga with the motherboard's jumpers(J3) but it gives an error during the POST.

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How to install a new graphic card ?

by William Jay In reply to How to install a new grap ...

Hello,

The onboard VGA and sound, usb, etc get shut off via BIOS settings. Put the jumpers back to where they were and use the soft jumpers in BIOS. If the new card needs an IRQ for OS specific features, (like video capture in win2000), then enable that in BIOS also ...

I know this is correct because I have one (M571 Rev 3.2), open and in front of me as I type this ...

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by William Jay In reply to How to install a new grap ...

Set Jumper 3 to enable internal vga selector, which turns on the soft jumpers in bios, otherwise the AGP chipset onboard is ON, hard-wired, and the BIOS settings are mute. If you will look in the manual and decide, it can be found at ...

http://williamjay.dns2go.com/tech.support/M571v32anw.pdf

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by William Jay In reply to How to install a new grap ...

I see also that there are at least three revisions of the mainboard, so be careful if you will flash the bios. Get the rev. number from next to the keyboard plug ...

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