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    G450 PCI and 810 Chipsets

    Boy its been ages since I posted here....but I have on the way to me a PCI G450 to put into my work machine to replace the crappy 1mb Intel onboard video card that I have now. My question is do I have to worry about finding a jumper on the MB to kill the onboard video or should it pick the card up automaticly and disable the onboard card? I don't have the excate Name of the board yet (other then its a Biostar Mobo that has the Socket 370 and slot one combo on it).

    Anyway I'm looking forward to using Matrox on a every day basis again since my G400 was retired out of my home Rig in 1999, though it lives on in my GF's PC .


    Scott
    Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?
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    I have a cheap HP with a Celeron 466 and an 810 board. What I had to do was set the "Default Primary Video Adapter" to PCI and then put in the Matrox Millennium board from an old PC. After Windows booted and the drivers were installed, I went and disabled the 810's onboard video in the Device Manager. Works good now, and better 2D too

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    • #3
      I think any modern motherboard with integrated graphics controller should recognize add-on display adapter meanwhile POST and automatically set it as a primary adapter. Atleast i815 (MS-8330), which I had a while ago worked flawlessy with G400.
      Celeron-T 1@1.4GHz, Asus P3B-F, 512MB PC-133, G400 MAX, Promise FastTrak66 Pro, Compaq Netelligent Dual Port NIC, Terratec SixPack 5.1+, Adaptec 29160N, Hauppauge WinTV Nicam FM, IBM Ultrastar 36LZX, 2xIBM 60GXP 40GB RAID 0, Pioneer DVD, Plextor CD, Plextor CD-RW, Zip100, HP DDS-3, Nokia 445Xpro. 8/1 ADSL internet access.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by prkl
        I think any modern motherboard with integrated graphics controller should recognize add-on display adapter meanwhile POST and automatically set it as a primary adapter. Atleast i815 (MS-8330), which I had a while ago worked flawlessy with G400.
        A lot of that depends on how the BIOS is set up. If it is set up to boot using a PCI video card first, it will, but if the manufacturer set it to boot off of AGP first (and you have not changed the bios setting), you won't get it to work as the primary...
        "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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        • #5
          Of course... I didn't realise at the first time that obviously only integrated AGP shall be automatically disabled by inserting AGP card.

          AGP and PCI or vice versa can easily exist at the same time, and then BIOS should have an option for setting primary/secondary display adapter.
          Celeron-T 1@1.4GHz, Asus P3B-F, 512MB PC-133, G400 MAX, Promise FastTrak66 Pro, Compaq Netelligent Dual Port NIC, Terratec SixPack 5.1+, Adaptec 29160N, Hauppauge WinTV Nicam FM, IBM Ultrastar 36LZX, 2xIBM 60GXP 40GB RAID 0, Pioneer DVD, Plextor CD, Plextor CD-RW, Zip100, HP DDS-3, Nokia 445Xpro. 8/1 ADSL internet access.

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          • #6
            Only problem is that this Motherboard doesnt have a AGP slot in it or I would have gotten a G550..and not the PCI G450...I hopefully have the card tommorow so I can try it out.

            Scott
            Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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            • #7
              As long as you can set the board to boot off of a PCI slot first it should work fine. I have personally had poor luck with 810's and disabling the onboard at a hardware level, but you can usually disable the device in windows and all should work flawlessly.
              "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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              • #8
                I just got in the new board this morning and its working great. One question though...I'm going to wipe out the system and put Win2000 on...am I' gonna run into any problems during the install?


                Scott
                Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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                • #9
                  does the onboard video disable completely or does it show up in the device manager?

                  if it still shows up in the device manager you will have to use the onboard video for portions of it, and when windows 2000 is set up you have to do the same thing (install drivers for Matrox, disable onboard video in device manager).
                  "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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                  • #10
                    Nah it still comes up....oh well

                    thanks for the info and I'm happy to be using a Matrox Product again everyday


                    Scott
                    Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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