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Change Graphis Card
Sorry for this but I have a really stupid question.
I'm trying to isolate a problem with my display. (After a very long time idle, the system seems to go to sleep and won't wake up even though the "Sleep" setting is "Never").
I've done a lot of testing and haven't found the problem yet. I suspect that the problem is my graphics card but want to prove it before I invest in a new one.
My mother board (ASUS CM6870) has a DVI port but the system came with a graphics card (NVIDIA GT640).
I want to remove the NVIDIA card and connect the monitor to the DVI port on the MB to see if that resolves the problem. My BIOS (AMI ver 2.20.1208) Graphics Configuration has 3 options (Auto, iGPU, PCIE). It is set to Auto. I physically removed the NVIDIA card and connected the monitor to the onboard DVI but I get no picture. Given the "Auto" setting, I would have expected the system to recognize the monitor on the onboard port. I'm worried that if I change the BIOS setting to iGPU and it doesn't work that I'll have no way to see the BIOS settings to change it back to Auto.
I've checked the motherboard manual and it provides instructions to connect the monitor to either the graphics card or the onboard DVI port. Therefore, I believe that the onboard DVI port should work.
Therefore, my stupid question. .....
If I change the BIOS Graphics Configuration setting to "iGPU" and it doesn't work, is there any way to get the setting back to "Auto" so that the graphics card will work?