I made the fatal error of agreeing to re-build my neighbours crappy old Compaq pc for him and upgrade the HDD.

He also wants me to upgrade the graphics card- unfortunately I can't seem to disable to onboard card so I can put a PCI one in.

With the Dells I'm used to you just chuck the card in and it works. How do you disable it in this Compaq?

It's a Deskpro 2000 5166. Has a Pentium 166 processor!

James

everytime i have done it you have to go into the bios and disable it that way

when you start the pc press and hold delete or F8

i hope this woorks

I checked the bios earlier and the only video option it seems to give is to turn off VGA pallette snooping!

...whatever the hell that is!

James

[Edited on 18/7/04 by James]

sorry james we have reached the limit of my knowledge time for someone of greater intelect to step in and save the day

James,

there might be a jumper on the motherboard which will disable the graphics card

Tony

good thinking batman that is exactly what will do it!!

i bet you don't have the manulal james do you, if you are luck it might say agp next to the jumper

Well, I gave up in the end- couldn't get the soddin card disabled.

I 'aquired' an old Dell (ie. a decent machine not that Compaq crap! ) and have built that and will give it to the guy tonight.

Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

James