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Open Source and Free Software

eppur_se_muova

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1. If it's a PCIe card, it should be chosen by default.

Reply to madokie (Original post)

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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I recently bought a new/old dell optiplex 7010 [View all] madokie Dec 2016 OP

If it's a PCIe card, it should be chosen by default. eppur_se_muova Dec 2016 #1

The video card is full size madokie Dec 2016 #2

I bet it does it automatically d_r Dec 2016 #3

I'll do the video card tonight madokie Dec 2016 #4

Well I installed the Video care and madokie Dec 2016 #5

Good to hear it d_r Dec 2016 #6