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jid

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Good News!
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2009, 06:13:55 PM »

I have managed to find the settings in the BIOS.

It was within Boot Options - didn't think of looking there! ::)

There is a greyed out setting: "On Board VGA" which is set to Auto, so I am guessing that is all OK and it should recognise it -maybe when the card is installed, it ungreys and allows it to be manually set?

Thanks for everyone's help

I will let you know how I get on, just need eBuyer to confirm whether it has a DVI-VGA connector included!
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2009, 11:19:31 PM »

Yes, to possibly avoid any conflicts it will be better to disable when the new card is installed.
But you may to to setup the new card before disabling it.
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2009, 12:22:29 AM »

Yep, I would definitely disable the on-board VGA, but there's no need to set up the new card before doing so.

The best course of action, to keep Windows happy, is this:

  • Shut down the computer.
  • Install new card.
  • Connect monitor to new card
  • Start up PC and go straight into BIOS.
  • Disable On Board VGA
  • Save, reboot and allow PC to start Windows
  • Install driver software, reboot.

Good luck :)
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2009, 03:55:52 PM »

Ok thanks Chris.

Well I have just ordered it so I will be receiving it Wednesday.

Will let you know how it goes.
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2009, 04:26:37 PM »


But you may to to setup the new card before disabling it.

Thanks for the reminder Chris, I forgot windows will initially use a generic set of drivers.
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2009, 09:11:13 PM »

What do people think of this for cooling?

Main reason for asking is that gfx card will push more heat into the case

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All help and advice appreciated

Many Thanks

Jamie

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Working Very Well!
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2009, 05:24:34 PM »

Thought I would let everyone know that everything is working great and Aero is running nicely :)

Dual monitor setup was very easy :)
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2009, 05:50:27 PM »

Nice one Jamie.  :)
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« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2009, 05:59:00 PM »

Aero is a pretty neat interface.

Is hungry for RAM though...

But I have 2GB of it and PC is currently only using 1.05!
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2009, 06:19:39 PM »

Aero is a pretty neat interface.

Is hungry for RAM though...

But I have 2GB of it and PC is currently only using 1.05!
Very greedy,I also have 2 GB,I think you would struggle with just 1GB
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« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2009, 06:40:23 PM »

I only just put a new one gig stick in as I originally only had 1.5gb of RAM and thought I may want to update in the future so luckily I did as it would have struggled with that!

I have just seen on Windows Update a Reccommended update for the GFX so will install those later on. I had some trouble installing as I had to manually install the drivers from the file I downloaded of PowerColor site and they obviously aren't most recent.

My Windows Experience is now 3.6 instead of 1.0 so that shows how bad my old system was!
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2009, 06:09:19 PM »

I see your on Vista hope you enjoy DX10 for games and other such apps that use Direct3D  :)
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« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2009, 06:52:23 PM »

I see your on Vista hope you enjoy DX10 for games and other such apps that use Direct3D  :)

If I am honest I don't do a lot of gaming, but I may purchase one of the extra Expression products to go with Web2

They only support WDDM drivers and I didn't have them before.

I know that DX10 is used by Aero but other than that I wouldn't have the slightest idea!
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2009, 08:13:10 PM »

I have noticed that the new card doesn't seem to allow the changing of Acceleration settings, and it seems that it uses the CPU more than its own GPU.

I obviously havent got the Catalyst control center installed as I couldn't get it to, but I can't seem to see a way around it, I have already noticed much higher cpu usage than normal.

Any ideas on forcing windows to show the acceleration options?
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Re: Adding a Second Monitor
« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2009, 09:29:36 PM »

I have noticed that the new card doesn't seem to allow the changing of Acceleration settings, and it seems that it uses the CPU more than its own GPU.

I obviously havent got the Catalyst control center installed as I couldn't get it to, but I can't seem to see a way around it, I have already noticed much higher cpu usage than normal.

Any ideas on forcing windows to show the acceleration options?

No worries, found it was something to do with Visual Basic and a server it installs?

Anyway it mucks up the .Net stuff.
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