Guest fl Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Hi, I have an HP Pavilion a820n, which has a mother board: Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS PTGD1-LA HP/Compaq name: Goldfish-GL8E OS: Windows XP home. CPU:3.20 GHz, Intel Pentium 4 HT processors Memory: 2.5 G I would like to replace the on-board video. The strang thing is that even though I set video to PCI from on-board, the on-board video output still has signal out. The video card, on the other hand, has not signal out. I had test that video card on other machine. BTW, I first uninstall the video display driver first before I change the BIOS setttings. Anyone can help me out? Thanks in advance
Guest R. McCarty Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Re: How to disable on-board video for HP pavilion in bios Most video is auto-switchable. Meaning if a AGP or PCIe card is installed the on-board video automatically switches off. Are you sure the add-on video card is compliant for your MB ? AGP comes in several iterations such as 4X and 8X speeds. You may have a card that isn't compatible for your motherboard. "fl" <rxjwg98@gmail.com> wrote in message news:8c9b652c-af07-418b-968f-f2f841517788@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > I have an HP Pavilion a820n, which has a mother board: > Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS PTGD1-LA > HP/Compaq name: Goldfish-GL8E > > OS: Windows XP home. > CPU:3.20 GHz, Intel Pentium 4 HT processors > Memory: 2.5 G > > > > I would like to replace the on-board video. The strang thing is that > even though I set video to PCI from on-board, the on-board video > output still has signal out. The video card, on the other hand, has > not signal out. I had test that video card on other machine. > > BTW, I first uninstall the video display driver first before I change > the BIOS setttings. Anyone can help me out? Thanks in advance
Guest Paul Montgomery Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Re: How to disable on-board video for HP pavilion in bios On Aug 18, 3:44 pm, "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSp...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Most video is auto-switchable. Meaning if a AGP or PCIe card is > installed the on-board video automatically switches off. That's a very old board. It has neither slot.
Guest Paul Montgomery Posted August 18, 2008 Posted August 18, 2008 Re: How to disable on-board video for HP pavilion in bios On Aug 18, 3:37 pm, fl <rxjw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have an HP Pavilion a820n, which has a mother board: > Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS PTGD1-LA > HP/Compaq name: Goldfish-GL8E > > OS: Windows XP home. > CPU:3.20 GHz, Intel Pentium 4 HT processors > Memory: 2.5 G > > I would like to replace the on-board video. The strang thing is that > even though I set video to PCI from on-board, the on-board video > output still has signal out. The video card, on the other hand, has > not signal out. I had test that video card on other machine. I tried to find the manual on that board... it's too old. What I managed to find is that you will probably have to find a jumper on the motherboard and change its setting. You will need a manual to figure out where that jumper is.
Guest fl Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 Re: How to disable on-board video for HP pavilion in bios On 18 août, 16:56, Paul Montgomery <i.m.nonnym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 18, 3:37 pm, fl <rxjw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have anHPPaviliona820n, which has a mother board: > > Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS PTGD1-LA > >HP/Compaq name: Goldfish-GL8E > > > OS: Windows XP home. > > CPU:3.20 GHz, Intel Pentium 4 HT processors > > Memory: 2.5 G > > > I would like to replace the on-board video. The strang thing is that > > even though I set video to PCI from on-board, the on-board video > > output still has signal out. The video card, on the other hand, has > > not signal out. I had test that video card on other machine. > > I tried to find the manual on that board... it's too old. What I > managed to find is that you will probably have to find a jumper on the > motherboard and change its setting. You will need a manual to figure > out where that jumper is. Thank. The PC is about 3..4 years old. The slot is PCI. The problem is that I cannot find the manual. On the website of HP, it has no board jumper info. What it said is to disable it in BIOS. So strange, I have no way to disable on-board video. Thank all of you.
Guest Paul Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: How to disable on-board video for HP pavilion in bios fl wrote: > On 18 août, 16:56, Paul Montgomery <i.m.nonnym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Aug 18, 3:37 pm, fl <rxjw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I have anHPPaviliona820n, which has a mother board: >>> Motherboard manufacturer's name: ASUS PTGD1-LA >>> HP/Compaq name: Goldfish-GL8E >>> OS: Windows XP home. >>> CPU:3.20 GHz, Intel Pentium 4 HT processors >>> Memory: 2.5 G >>> I would like to replace the on-board video. The strang thing is that >>> even though I set video to PCI from on-board, the on-board video >>> output still has signal out. The video card, on the other hand, has >>> not signal out. I had test that video card on other machine. >> I tried to find the manual on that board... it's too old. What I >> managed to find is that you will probably have to find a jumper on the >> motherboard and change its setting. You will need a manual to figure >> out where that jumper is. > > Thank. The PC is about 3..4 years old. The slot is PCI. The problem is > that I cannot find the manual. On the website of HP, it has no board > jumper info. What it said is to disable it in BIOS. So strange, I have > no way to disable on-board video. Thank all of you. There is a picture of the Goldfish PTGD1-LA here. This would be an OEM board, and the nearest Asus retail board is not an exact match. The slot configurations are different. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&docname=c00300046&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN The P5GD1-VM is close in design. It uses 915G Northbridge and has built-in graphics as a result. The manual can be obtained from support.asus.com download page. This is the link I downloaded this from, and with some luck, the link will work for you. http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5GD1-VM/e1881_p5gd1-vm.pdf The HP provided BIOS will not have the exact same feature set as the Asus BIOS. The Asus BIOS has "Internal Graphics Mode Select", and [Disabled] is an option. Naturally, that is a dangerous option, in the sense that if the PCI video card is not working on the next POST, there would be no display to look at. If that happened, the next step would be to unplug the machine and use the Clear CMOS (RTC) jumper to reset all the BIOS settings. As a result of this possibility, you'd want to keep records of any custom BIOS settings (not that there will be many of them in the HP BIOS) It could be that your BIOS does not have "Internal Graphics Mode Select" and switching to the alternate video card is automatic. (BIOS with automatic switching, run the built-in video, but if a separate video card is detected, then the built-in gets disabled.) Even the P5GD1-VM is not perfect. Someone had trouble with a PCI video card. http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20060111063810296&board_id=1&model=P5GD1-VM&page=1&SLanguage=en-us I doubt a board of this particular generation, would need a jumper for VGA. If this was my problem to solve, I would continue to use the built-in display, while the new PCI card is inserted. And use an application like Everest, to see if the card is enumerated and visible or not. Just to make sure the hardware on the new video card is working. Other than that, I don't see many options available, to force it to work - if the problem is BIOS related, then you could check the HP site for a BIOS update for the board. I suppose you could talk to HP tech support, but the conversation might not be very satisfying. Paul
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