Advice disabling onboard graphics in bios

[liamcrane]

Afternoon all,

I was just looking for some quick advice on disabling my onboard graphics for my board which i believe it has. Its an Asus M4A785D-M PRO, as far as im aware it has onboard graphics but i want to set my graphics card to be the primary source. I went into the bios and found this setting "Primary video controller"

The options it had are below in the order they were shown

GFX0-GPP-IGFX-PCI
GPP-GFX0-IGFX-PCI
PCI-GFX0-GPP-IGFX
IGFX-GFX0-GPP-PCI

These setting are the only thing i can find with regards to graphics in my bios, id be so grateful if someone could help me out understanding if this has any relevence to the onboard graphic setting on my board. Whenever i uninstall my cards drivers and reboot windows always seems to install drivers itself and its so annoying

Hope you can help

Thanks a mill

 

[Dave0w]

When you put a PCI-e GFX card in your motherboard your onboard GFX should auto disable without you changing anything

OR that was mu understanding anyway

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

Those don't look like the options to disable it, they're the options to chose the primary device.

GFX0 = primary pci-e slot
IGFX = built in graphics
PCI = PCI slot
GPP = Not sure, possible the secondary pci-e slot.

So... GFX0-GPP-IGFX-PCI would be the one to chose. It'll look for the gfx0 first (your pci-e slot), and then use the graphics card which is there.

I'm not sure there is an option in your bios to disable it completely. Somebody else have a look.... I found the bios screens.

http://motherboards-reviews.com/ASUS/socket_AM3/M4A785D-M_PRO/ASUS_M4A785D-M_PRO_BIOS_screens.html

 

[iBSOD]

Do you have your VGA/DVI/HDMI cable plugged into the onboard, not GPU? Sounds stupid but I've been there.

 

[liamcrane]

Thanks so much for your help guys i really appreciate it

jimbob27- Thanks for your input mate thats really helped me out, i think the onboard must get disabled when there is a graphics card installed

Thanks again everyone

Have a merry xmas