HP: cannot see bios screen after switching to integrated graphics.

[Martin1978]

Hi!

I am using an hp pavillion (a6525.uk) and I discovered the other day that the system features an integrated graphic system. Being the curious type, I thought I would give it a try and so I went into the bios and switched from my regular pci graphics card to this onboard one. All fine, except now my bios is no longer visible on start up! Can anyone suggest how I can revert to my standard card from within pclinuxos (kde by the way), or has curiosity killed the cat (or in this case, the pc).


Thanks!

[djohnston]

Try removing your addon video card. Either that, or your video cable is still plugged into the addon card. Did you switch your video cable connection?

[Martin1978]

No, I haven't switched any cables.

[djohnston]

No, I haven't switched any cables.

Then your cable is still connected to the addon card you are trying to disable. If you set BIOS to read from the motherboard chipset, your video cable should be connected to the motherboard video connector instead of the addon card.

[Martin1978]

Thanks for your help. All sorted now