Enabling External Graphics Card

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   I have an A320M-HD motherboard paired with an Athlon 240GE and I'm trying to add a separate graphics card but the card is not recognised. It does not even appear in the OS in the list of PCI devices.

Whatever I set the enable internal graphics to in BIOS it always sets it back to "Forces" and I guess this may be at the root of it. Any ideas about what is going on and what I should do?

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Paul Abraham Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2019 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paul Abraham Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Enabling External Graphics Card Posted: 01 Oct 2019 at 2:35am
	I have an A320M-HD motherboard paired with an Athlon 240GE and I'm trying to add a separate graphics card but the card is not recognised. It does not even appear in the OS in the list of PCI devices. Whatever I set the enable internal graphics to in BIOS it always sets it back to "Forces" and I guess this may be at the root of it. Any ideas about what is going on and what I should do?

Vulpie05 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26 Dec 2018 Status: Offline Points: 64	Post Options Post Reply Quote Vulpie05 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Oct 2019 at 11:03am
	I think forces is fine. I just installed a 1660 Ti and that setting seemed to always stick no matter what I did. I would suggest downloading DDU (display driver installer), reboot into safe mode, and run DDU to get rid of the Vega 3 drivers. Do this even if the discrete card is an AMD GPU. Then, install the drivers for the discrete GPU. Let us know what happens.

Paul Abraham Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2019 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paul Abraham Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Oct 2019 at 10:47pm
	Well, I'm running Linux on this so its a little difficult to do that the way you say, though I have tried equivalent things such as blacklisting the driver. I might yet give it a go with a temp Windows installation just to see. However, I'm pretty sure its not a driver problem as the card is not detected at all.

Paul Abraham Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2019 Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paul Abraham Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Oct 2019 at 3:55am
	Just to clarify that; it is before OS loading, and hence long before driver loading, that the problem arises - I cannot even see the BIOS splash screen. Linux sees absolutely nothing - not even unrecognised hardware. I know that the card is OK (works in another machine) and that the slot appears to work as I tried a sound card in it and that was detected.