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eppur_se_muova

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1. If it's a PCIe card, it should be chosen by default.
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 03:25 PM
Dec 2016

Just be sure the monitor is connected to the video card before you boot, and the BIOS will auto-detect your card.

I had the opposite problem -- wanted to use onboard video instead of the PCIe card, which I wanted to reserve for GPU computing. Not allowed by Dell's BIOS ! Once that PCIe card was plugged in, that was my video, whether I wanted it or not.

I thought when you booted into Setup the cards were selected with a fairly simple choose-from-a-list interface, at least on the newest Dells I own (760's, a bit older). In the worst case, you'd just have two monitors connected, or try one monitor on each video output in turn.

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