I have a 128MB PCI video card in my AOPEN MX3W Pro motherboard. The BOARD itself has onboard video. The card works well, except when I boot up, the screen won't COME on until windows (running 2k) starts to boot. That's fine, except when I might want to go in a play with the BIOS settings. How do I fix this? I was thinking about uninstalling the onboard video driver, but didn't know if that was the route to go.

Thank you to all those who answer our dumb questions! I post on a flash board a lot, and I know how it can be


Do you have a motherboard manual for it? If not, you can DOWNLOAD one from http://download.aopen.com.tw/Default.aspx

And, I see that AOPEN has their own user forum: http://usa.aopen.com/tech/newsgrp/. I haven't registered for it and haven't accessed it. So, I don't know how active it is, but it might be a good place to an answer for your specific motherboard.

I'm wondering whether you might need to connect your monitor back to the onboard VGA connector so that you can access your BIOS and see it on screen, and then maybe change a setting that's causing this problem.If memory SERVES me well, this board has no AGP slot and the onboard GRAPHICS cannot be disabled. Set the system to initialise from PCI rather than AGP.Thanks to both. I'll switch the monitor back and check the BIOS settings to see if I can swtich from agp to pci.