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ECS 741GX-M Onboard video trouble
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Posted by: GeForce_4_
Its weird I installed a RADEON 7000 PCI on this motherboard (ECS 741GX-M)
And theres no option that I found on the board (no jumper at all) no option in the bios to disable to integrated video card....
Now I instaleld windows and it shows 480MB of RAM but I have 512, I want to disactivate the frigging onboard but it wont shut off?
COuld it be the fact taht the board does not detect an AGP card?
Posted by: goranpaa
Have you tried in the device manager?
Posted by: GeForce_4_
No the device has a question mark on it so its of no use to disable it...
Posted by: goranpaa
Then if you cant make the Radeon work? You probably need to update BIOS and the Chipset driver, for the northbridge chipset.
Posted by: GeForce_4_
The PCI RADEON works, but the motherboard shows '32M SHARED MEMORY' beside the memory test on POST
So I searched the BIOS for a disable option or atleast put 'shared memory' to NONE so that the video card would turn off but it doesn't
In device manager its a yellow question mark so I just disabled the device and didn't install its driver but windows still sees 480 of memory (512-32) So somewhere there has to be a way...
As I said could it be the fact that the motherboard doesn't see an AGP video card and doesn't turn it off automatically? (Because the RADEON is PCI)
Posted by: goranpaa
O.K.
I don't know if you have this setting in your bIOS?
But check if you can find "Graphic adapter priority, AGP / PCI"?
And then, set it to AGP.
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
Look in your mobo manual. You may need to disable that on board vid with a jumper.
Posted by: chainlink
It's quite likely that the use of a PCI video card is not causing your MOBO to free up the shared video RAM. Does the Onchip AGP Control option in the BIOS have the ability to allocate no system RAM to the onboard system as it's not entirely clear from the manual? As PCI cards can have multiple functions I suspect the MOBO is not clever enough (after all it's a pretty cost-effective board) to figure it is a video card and thus disable the onboard chip.
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