How to disable on-board video for HP pavilion in bios

[Guest fl]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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