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Originally Posted by Pinchy
Depends on the motherboard.
Most have a BIOS option to allow you to choose between integrated and PCIe. But most of the time as soon as you put a PCIe card in there it automatically switches to PCIe. So you may need to get a working PCIe card, set it to use onboard, then put the dead one back in.
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I shouldn't need a working PCI-E card for that. I can boot without the PCI-E card to be sure it boots on the onboard, enter the bios to force the onboard to be used, then switch off, put the dead in and boot. Isn't it ?
But if it's not sure that the motherboard let me force the onboard to be used, I'm better off ordering the PCI video card. I'll try to google few of the mobo I can get to see if I can be sure that it will allow me to do it.
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Originally Posted by Pinchy
Do you know why its not booting the floppy? Perhaps its not set as the first boot device? Or maybe you have to press a button or something for it to load the floppy?
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No, I don't know why it doesn't boot on the floppy. It should have been the default boot device as last time I flashed from the floppy it booted straight from it. And it should be the default device once I reset the bios but it doesn't.
I tried few keys like enter or F keys but it didn't seem to do anything ...:/
IBTW my mobo is a Gigabyte P35-DS3. If anyone has a clue as why id doesn't boot straight to the floppy or what key I should I press when there is a dead video card plugged, please let me know ...