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Installing video card in Gigabyte F2A55M

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I have a PC which is having some strange problems not fixed by replacement, RAM, so the next step is to install a separate video card. I want to check I'm going to go about it the right way, so I don't end up with a PC that won't talk to a monitor!

I've looked at the manual which bizarrely mentions two PCI Express graphics card slots on a mobo with only one! I've not checked if the BIOS does actually have both choices as the PC is 10 miles away. It's also silent on if there is a preferred way to do this.

However I can see more than one way of making the changes:

  1. change the Primary video device in the BIOS to the NB PCIe slot, shutdown, install the card, connect the monitor to that instead of the on-board one
  2. shutdown, install the card, reboot, change the BIOS, shutdown, replug the monitor & reboot.

Option 1 is clearly a lot easier! I do have two monitors available if necessary.

Advice will be welcome.
 
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^ As above, just added a discreet GPU to the very same motherboard for a relative and that's the process I used with one exception: uninstalled the driver for the onboard AMD GPU before shutting down.
 
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