I want to thank all of you for your replies. I think I may be hosed for buying the proprietary hardware. The mother board is a very clean layout and there is clearly only 1 jumper on the board (for boot block) and a set of switches. I have the manual for the board and the switches do not control the built in video. Guess I'll have to swap with one of the other systems in the house. Again, thank you for responding.
Glenn.
>> >If you go into your BIOS settings you should have the ability to disable
>> >the onboard card..
>
>> This system has Phoenix BIOS Setup. I see only 3 settings mentioning VIDEO...
>> 1.) Video System [EGA/VGA] can toggle to Monochrome or CGA 80x25 .
>> 2.) Under MEMORY and CACHE
>> A.) CACHE VIDEO BIOS: [ENABLED] - can toggle to DISABLED.
>> B.) VIDEO SHADOW: [ENABLED] - can toggle to DISABLED.
>
>> Do any of those setting sound like they would
>> disable the on-board video in favor of putting in a seperate PCI video card?
>
> If the bios settings do not include a screen for "integrated
>peripherals" there might a electrical jumper on the mommy
>board that disables the integral video board, as was common
>on 486's, if neither exist, software adjustments is most
>likely your only possibility.
>
> 73 (= Best Regards) de: (= this is) Ron ka4inm@qsl.net
> Please visit my HAM web site at: http://www.qsl.net/ka4inm
>
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