i already have it disabled in bios. i think.... i have the primary display set to pci. (no agp slot) i don't believe there is anything else to shut off in bios (atleast not mine). I can try that but as soon as i uninstal the integrated video adapter on my board, it starts installing itself again. it goes crazy when it does and it starts installing aim drivers and stuff and i get like more and more unknown devices in device manager until i go back and disable the ingegrated video again. is there a jumper on the board or anything that could shut off the video...because i haven't found anything in bios. If it should be in the bios....i have a wierd bios...i don't have many options and im not sure if i can flash it. i haven't yet and the computers a few years old. I'll check it all again....but i can't figure out why i can't stop the video card from trying to load all it's stuff again. thx for the responses though.