Integrated Gfx Card

[kira_blade]

I have a pretty good comp, but i have an integrated graphics card of 4 MB, so i heard i cant replace it with a new one, unless i use an external box, which i heard sucked. so what do i do? i need a new gfx card!

[ted]

You can install a new graphics card if your motherboard has an AGP slot. Otherwise you'll need to get a PCI video card or a new motherboard.

[kira_blade]

how do i check that :sweat: sorry for the boring questions.....

[TenTako]

just check if you have an AGP slot in your Mobo's manual. Also, its quite hard finding a decent PCI vid card. So normally you should have 5 PCI slots, and 1 AGp. Hope this helped Oh, and if you get a vid card in there, you have to tell the mobo to use the Vid card, and NOT the integrated gfx.

[kira_blade]

what exactly is a mobo manual? :sweat: i have a dell, does that help...

[Osaka]

When he says Mobo manual, he means the Mother Board manual.

Here's the best, quick guide on looking inside your computer.
If you're not comfortable with opening up your computer for fear of breaking something, THEN DONT OPEN IT~!!
Find someone who is comfortable with working inside of a computer.

if you have an integrated video card then there are two possible places you can disable it.
~One is with jumpers that are physically on the motherboard. Jumpers are small plastic things that connect two pins together to complete a circuit. This would be covered in more depth inside your mother board manual. If you don't have a manual then you can probably find the motherboard type and maker printed somewhere on the motherboard, then look it up online. If you dont know what pins to put the jumper on, then close the computer and find someone who knows about this.

~The other place, if your motherboard does not have jumpers, is in the system bios. Usually if you hold the "Del" key (or any key that is asked for when the system boots) while the computer system is booting up, this will load up the bios screen. It is very important that you don't tamper with the bios if you arn't familiar with how a computer works. Find someone who knows what they are doing before going into the bios.

After that you can purchase a new video card, and install it. Again, I can't stress this enough. If you dont know how the inside of a computer works, then find someone who does. It is VERY easy to change one setting and break a computer. I've done it plenty of times and I build computers as a hobby, expensive as it might be. ^^ I hope this points you in the right direction.