I don't know the answer to that but it sure looks like you are wanting to mix water with oil or use Mac & windows OS's in the same partition.
Is there any reason why you want to do that? if you have an onboard nvidia card and you want to use an external (read: agp, pci or pcie) card, I would just DISABLE the onboard card and be done with it.
lol um the 3450 is a pci-e and yes its nvidia onboard lol um my friend wants a new card and i was thinkin of givin him mine for kinda cheap so thats why lol
Sorry but I am now more confuse, what does you trying to sell a card to your friend for cheap has to do with mixing two cards? Is ok if you don't want to explain, I was just trying to help.
If the bios doesn't auto-disable the onboard video once it detects the PCI-E card, you just need to go into the bios and find the setting to disable it. There may also be a setting dealing with which is the primary display device, if there is just set it to PCI-E.
yes but we are not going to be using crossfire or sli it is a single card going into a single pci-e express slot on a motherboard with a nvidia onboard
ATI has specific instructions on how to install their cards. Firstly uninstall the nVidia drivers and let Windows run on it's basic video driver. Disable the onboard video on the BIOS. Install the video card, restart and insert installation disc and go on from there. If your video card has HDMI output there's also an instruction on how to enable the audio portion if you're connecting to an HDMI monitor/HDTV.
Have done this with a friends PC before now and learned the hard way....
simply if you just place the new card then install the drivers you will end up with the BSOD or in our case just a plain black screen after you require a re-boot
The simple answer is to install the new card and boot take away the old driver for the on-board then apply the new driver for the new card when you are required to re boot its is safest to enter bios and make sure the on-board card is fully disabled now exit the bios with save and exit and allow the pc to boot.... you will now have a stable graphics setup
ATI & Nvidia can be ran at the same time if one of the 2 uses HID drivers from MS.
Though if you wish to use the ATI one only, disable the NVidia one in the BIOS indeed like others stated
Yes, the monitor(s) display indeed! Very good my youn padawan!
Screen Resolution
Resolution for gettin a display is pushing "on" for power...
Hard Drives
Pretty darn hard! Nearly broke my darn tooth!
PSU
PSU = Pimping Sick Undies!
Case
Gues I'm a bit of a nut case yup
Cooling
Cool me with a beer!
Keyboard
No, mine has razors on the board to prevent me smashing it.
Mouse
Eeeek!
Internet Speed
Dunno, modem doesn't seem to move with a great deal of speed
Other Info
Aha! Now this is making more sense to me!
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Business (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612)
System Model: OptiPlex 755
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A12
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.40GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
Memory: 3324MB RAM (Strange one, I really got 4GB, but it claims 3324... Not u
