I just bought a HP Pavilion a520n and also an ATI Radeon 9600 SE video card. The computer itself has a video card (nVidia GEForce something..i can find the exact specs if needed) built right into the mobo, and I want to install this new video card in the 8x AGP slot.
I was reading the instructions in the book that came with the video card and it said I needed to install drivers for AGP cards. The processor is an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and the book has a website for the drivers listed as
www.amd.com. Should I go there and download the drivers?
Next prob is the big one. It says "Remove any existing graphics card from your computer.
If your computer has an on-board graphics capability, you may need to disable it on the motherboard. For more information, see your computer documentation. That's all well and good, but I looked at the comp documents and it says nothing about disabling the on-board video card. There's instructions about installing an AGP card, but that's it. Says nothing about disabling on-board video card.
My question is, how do I disable it and install this new vid card without damaging anything, and also, is disabling the current gfx card going to cause any of my pre-installed programs to malfunction? (DVD viewers and such.)
If any additional information is needed I will gladly post it.
Thanks everyone!