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    #1  Edited By Monte

    Just built my first PC, installed windows, everything went well.
    But my computer is running off "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" (which I'm assuming is the integrated gpu on the motherboard) instead of my radeon 6970.

    I'm new to this and am not sure how to change the settings. I can't find any kind of setting for graphics in BIOS except for [PEG/PCI] and that doesn't seem to do anything.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.


    Edit: Sorry for the typo in the thread title
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    #2  Edited By Monte

    ...nevermind. I had to install the card.

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    #3  Edited By HitmanAgent47

    Yep, install drivers.

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    #4  Edited By TheKeyboardDemon

    Now that the graphics card is installed and running you need to go into your BIOS and disable the onboard graphics card to make sure any resources it might use a not taken up and that it doesn't conflict with the 6970.

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