Posted by Andy [65.123.83.80 - pxn-080.ppp.illicom.net] on 19 October 2002 at 12.58.45 ZuluTime:
I hate integrated video cards. You should put this down as one of the stupidest things in computer history. I have a guys computer here because the integrated video is broken. I assume the people who made the mother board would have been semi-intelligent and at least added a jumper to disable the integrated video, but it's not there, or if it is, it's not labeled or documented anywhere. I even threw in a PCI video card hoping the system would notice it and redirect the video, but again no.
It turns out that, at least with this compaq system, you have to get into the BIOS to disable the video, and with most BIOS it helps to be able to see what settings you change so you don't accidently overclock the CPU 1000 times...although it'd be cool to watch it disintegrate :-)