New Graphics Card Need Help (urgent)

[KraidSaves]

I just got my Pny Geforce 4 MX 440-SE PCI graphics card in the mail. I'm reading the instruction manual but I'm not really getting the help I need. What I have to do first is uninstall "current VGA Dispaly Drivers" which I don't think I have because my system has onboard graphics. The side note to this says if I have an onbaord graphics controller (which I do) please contact the vendor on how to properly disable it. My computer is pretty old so its hard to find information on it. I have a Compaq Presario 5822. I think I read a few weeks ago that to disable the onbaord graphics I just had to go to My Computer>Properties>Device Manager> and that is all I can remember. I'm not sure where I have to go from there, what I have to remove or how to do it. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

[tony_j15]

from device manager, hit the "+" on "display adapters", click once on whats there, and then hit "remove" at the bottom of the window

[KraidSaves]

Just doing this will remove my onboard graphics? Also my card is configured for DirectX 8.1, I already have directX 9 on my computer. Will I have to install directX 8.1 or would it work with Direct X 9?

[swamp-fox]

Go to control panel > System >hardware>device manager. Click on the + in front of display adapters. Highlight the driver click remove. Turn off machine, install video card and turn back on it should find your video card and try to install drivers for it. You probably also need to get to BIOS to Disable onboard video. and Boot to pci video first.

Compaq's are weird I can't remember if it's delete, f12 , f10 , Ctrl-f10 to get to BIOS on compaq's.

swamp

edit for clarity.

[doddsy]

i had the same thing once on my last pc with intel extreme integrated grafix and i disabled it, replacing it with a radeon 9000 pci (cos it was t & l enabled )

click start--control panel

dbl clik--system

click the hardware tab, then the device manager button.

click the + beside "display adapters"

your onbpoard grafix adapter should be listed



right clik on it and click disable. then right click on the display adapter again and click properties, then the driver tab then click the uninstall button.




then follow the instructions with your new card...........u will probably need to physically insert the thing CAREFULLY.......then install the drivers from the cd that came with it.


NOTE.............just in case something backfires....i'd download a copy of the onboard grafix adapter drivers and keep them on hand.


once your new card is installed and working properly u can go to

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

and get the latest drivers for it. if u do get the latest drivers u will need to uninstall the originals before installing the new ones............the release notes with the new drivers will explain how to do that..........


sounds daunting.......but as long as u take care and take your time its reallly pretty straightforward...........I managed it so it must be.

doddsy

ps there was a thread here once wer the onboard grafix could not be disabled........but i think that was the exception rather than the rule

[rrcn]

Your card will work with DirectX 9 installed, it just wont use all the features of DX9. Besides, you can't uninstall DX once its been installed.