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/...=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...rd_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