BIOS Video Card Problem

oxide2007 · #1 October 16th, 2005, 05:24 AM

Okay, so here is the story, we have two old computers, and DELL and a Micron, so I'm going to take the good pieces together, put them together and make a computer for my siblings to use, I got all the pieces together setup on and old DELL with a Intel 3 (The Old Block CPU

) And I had decided to use an upgraded ATI video card booster from the other system, so I changed the BIOS settings to read for the video card the PCI slot instead, but then that only worked for a while, because the connector where I connect the cord of the monitor became ruined, so now I'd like to change it back to the normal VGA or w/e so I can see when I'm installing Windows, or using windows. But the problem is I cannot see, does anyone know a way to help me, perhaps timing on when to press the 'DEL' button and what buttons to press in my keyboard? Or perhaps you can lead me to a way I can reset to default BIOS settings or something? Thanks a ton. (Because I'd rather not go out and buy a brand new PCI-slot video card.

**zipulrich** · #2 October 16th, 2005, 05:30 AM

It's usually the F2 key, as the thing's booting up, rather than the Delete key.

oxide2007 · #3 October 16th, 2005, 05:55 AM

On all of my computers its been a DELETE key not F2... But of course this is not what I am looking for, I am looking for some way to be able to actually see my monitor.

**zipulrich** · #4 October 16th, 2005, 06:02 AM

What I meant was, enter the BIOS (whichever way you see fit) and see if you can enable on-board/disable the PCI graphics card in there. Sorry for not being clearer.

oxide2007 · #5 October 16th, 2005, 06:19 AM

See the problem is, is that the PCI slot video card is ruined, and I cannot see the screen to change it back to my VGA/AGP or w/e it is.

**zipulrich** · #6 October 16th, 2005, 10:36 PM

Power down, open the case, and remove the CMOS battery (silver watch-battery-looking-thing) for ¾ hour or so. Also, look on the motherboard next to where the battery is - you may see a CMOS jumper. If so, tell me.
That should set things back to defaults, including the on-board video. While the case is open, remove the old PCI card as well.

oxide2007 · #7 October 17th, 2005, 12:12 AM

Aight, so the system battery that looks like one of them watch batteries that keeps track of all the small things such as time on my computer? Because if your talking about that silver BIOS chip that is in most computers, cause that ain't in there.

**zipulrich** · #8 October 17th, 2005, 12:33 AM

There's no battery? If that's really the case, the battery is soldered in (man, that's an old motherboard!).

oxide2007 · #9 October 17th, 2005, 05:11 PM

Nope, I found the battery and then took it out for a day, and the cord wasn't plugged in...