How to set bios to run 2 graphic cards???

davelap · 4th Nov 2007, 10:18 PM

I've got a compaq Evo D300v desktop with onboard video, and i'm using a radeon 7000 series agp card..now as soon as i plug the ati card in, the onboard intel adapter disappears from everything...device manager and bios, and if i plug in a pci card along with the agp card, bios won't let me enable them both together so that i can run a projector on this machine along with the monitor....WHAT CAN I DO???? Trying to set this up for our church, and they don't have the cash for a vga splitter or a dual video card...there has to be a way to enable both cards right?? pls help. Thanks!

Chai · 5th Nov 2007, 12:38 AM

You can only use either the onboard intel adpater OR the Radeon 7000 at a time, not both, because there's only room for 1 AGP adapter at a time.

As for using PCI card, there's no need to enable it in BIOS. It should detect both in Windows.

davelap · 5th Nov 2007, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chai

You can only use either the onboard intel adpater OR the Radeon 7000 at a time, not both, because there's only room for 1 AGP adapter at a time.

As for using PCI card, there's no need to enable it in BIOS. It should detect both in Windows.

Thanks Chai, so is it my understanding then that the onboard video is treated or is the same as a card in the AGP slot? But as for the pci card...with the AGP card in and the pci card in the pci card shows 'not-working', and in the bios under the heading i believe 'VGA config' it shows the agp enabled, and the pci card DISABLED, and when I change the pci card to enabled automaticly the agp one changes to disabled...i can't get both to show as enabled. Maybe it's the pci card, it is quite old, but does work cause i can use it by itself in the machine.....Any ideas??? thanks again for the quick response!

Chai · 5th Nov 2007, 10:35 AM

Yup, the intergrated is treated as an AGP 'card'.

As for the BIOS option for VGA config, normally it's "Display Card Priority" or similar. It doesn't disable either cards.

Adrian Wong · 5th Nov 2007, 02:50 PM

Yeah, the BIOS setting will NOT disable a PCI graphics card. It will just detemine which is the primary adapter. You can read more here - Tech ARP - Primary Graphics Adapter

davelap · 5th Nov 2007, 05:34 PM

Thanks to you both for your help. I'll look more into it. I look forward to being a part of this forum more in the future, you all are great and I do appreciate it. Thanks again!

davelap · 6th Nov 2007, 09:22 AM

Going back to this bios thing....I know what your saying about the bios....but with this Compaq 686P9 v1.11 bios when I have an agp card and a pci card in there is a line under the 'advanced' section for 'pci vga config.' which is the primary/non-boot area..BUT, there is also a line under 'pci devices' which lists the two cards with enable/disable after them, along with assigning the irq's....and here you CANNOT enable both...if you go to enable the one that is disabled, it automaticlly disables the other one. Is there any way around this? Also I put in just one pci card, and ran the on-board, and this time is said 'not enough resources' to start the pci card...but there is nothing else in the slots..i took everything else out...am I getting closer? is there something I can do? again..

thanks for your time on this matter.

4th Nov 2007, 10:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
davelap Newbie Join Date: 4 Nov 2007 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	How to set bios to run 2 graphic cards??? I've got a compaq Evo D300v desktop with onboard video, and i'm using a radeon 7000 series agp card..now as soon as i plug the ati card in, the onboard intel adapter disappears from everything...device manager and bios, and if i plug in a pci card along with the agp card, bios won't let me enable them both together so that i can run a projector on this machine along with the monitor....WHAT CAN I DO???? Trying to set this up for our church, and they don't have the cash for a vga splitter or a dual video card...there has to be a way to enable both cards right?? pls help. Thanks!

5th Nov 2007, 12:38 AM	#2 (permalink)
Chai Administrator Join Date: 6 Oct 2002 Location: Maranello Posts: 26,655 Reputation: 3984 Rep Power: 72	You can only use either the onboard intel adpater OR the Radeon 7000 at a time, not both, because there's only room for 1 AGP adapter at a time. As for using PCI card, there's no need to enable it in BIOS. It should detect both in Windows. __________________ Chai (Contributor & Forum Admin) http://www.techarp.com/

5th Nov 2007, 10:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
Chai Administrator Join Date: 6 Oct 2002 Location: Maranello Posts: 26,655 Reputation: 3984 Rep Power: 72	Yup, the intergrated is treated as an AGP 'card'. As for the BIOS option for VGA config, normally it's "Display Card Priority" or similar. It doesn't disable either cards. __________________ Chai (Contributor & Forum Admin) http://www.techarp.com/ Last edited by Chai : 5th Nov 2007 at 04:06 PM.

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5th Nov 2007, 05:34 PM	#6 (permalink)
davelap Newbie Join Date: 4 Nov 2007 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Thanks to you both for your help. I'll look more into it. I look forward to being a part of this forum more in the future, you all are great and I do appreciate it. Thanks again!

6th Nov 2007, 09:22 AM	#7 (permalink)
davelap Newbie Join Date: 4 Nov 2007 Posts: 6 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Going back to this bios thing....I know what your saying about the bios....but with this Compaq 686P9 v1.11 bios when I have an agp card and a pci card in there is a line under the 'advanced' section for 'pci vga config.' which is the primary/non-boot area..BUT, there is also a line under 'pci devices' which lists the two cards with enable/disable after them, along with assigning the irq's....and here you CANNOT enable both...if you go to enable the one that is disabled, it automaticlly disables the other one. Is there any way around this? Also I put in just one pci card, and ran the on-board, and this time is said 'not enough resources' to start the pci card...but there is nothing else in the slots..i took everything else out...am I getting closer? is there something I can do? again.. thanks for your time on this matter.