Before when i disabled the onboard sis card i switched on the computer and nothing came

up on the monitor!!! **** i thought so i had to reset the BIOS with the jumper thing!!!!

I only relised i forgot to plug the bloody monitor into the ATI card!! what a **** :LOL!:

Any way im writinh this now with the ati working and onboard sis disabled, WEIRD thing

is that after rebooting it ONCE it asked for the ati CD with the drivers???? I canceld that

and in the middle of downloading them the bloody box pops up asking for the CD again??

And when i cancel that it cancels the whole driver update proccess??? How can i stop

the box from poping up??

Thanks again guys, much appeciated.

 

Just install the drivers from the dload you were doing.

 

Just installed the drivers, at last working a treat

Didnt need to update the BIOS. Can i just say a massive thanks to every one

who posted on this thread .

One thing, would it be possible for me to switch the onboard card on and use 2

monitors???

 

No, because as you've already found out, having both on at once causes driver confusion !

 

Ta , memory like a fish

 

If you have 2 outputs on your card you can use 2 monitors
Or you can buy a splitter from maplins or the likes that will do exactly the same thing

Tony

 

I have to say, i was reading this yesterday and thinking to myself "bios updates? this is not going to end well"

at least you got it working

 

No worries

As mentioned don't switch on the on-board VGA again as windows will not use 2 different brands of graphics card together

I know this is a problem for most of us blokes but the manual is your friend In one of the first links I gave you:

Radeon™ 9500 PRO

Q/A10 answers the question about setting up dual monitors with the radeon. If one or both of your Monitors doesn't support DVI connectivity then you need to make sure you have a DVI-VGA converter in one of the connectors on the back of the ATi radeon card. Normally this was provided when you bought the card new. If not maplins or PC world or a computer shop will sell these from £5 - £10. By the way looking through the manual for your motherboard the AGP slot you have only supports 4x speed of your card (Your card is an 8x AGP card) so if you plan to play games you may not get the full benefit.

Hopefully you are now sorted