Should i disable my onboard/integrated video if i install a video card?

is their a problem if i don't want to disable onboard video if i install a video card?|||It depends on the onboard graphics card. If the onboard graphics card is by Intel, then there is no issue. If the onboard graphics card is by ATI and you are installing an ATI graphics card, there also is no issue. However, if the onboard graphics card is by ATI and the graphics card you are installing is by nVidia, driver issues can occur. In this case disabling the onboard graphics card is advised. Also, disabling the onboard graphics card will save power and therefore money. To sum all this up, if you do not wish to use your onboard graphics card any more, it would be the easiest to simply disable it.|||Most newer boards will auto disable when you plug in the video card, if not and it works, its not going to hurt anything but you may run into an issue if say, your on board runs Nvidia and your slot card runs ATI, otherwise, if it works, don't fret.|||No, it is NOT required to disable the onboard.



It is helpful to do so if you aren't using it anymore, because it will free up extra power for the rest of the system.



It's a choice.|||No. there is no need to disable the on board video card just unplug the VGA and plug to the graphics card's VGA port.that's it|||There are three possible problems, but they're all pretty minor:



1) If you don't set the BIOS properly, it may use the onboard video as the primary display. If you don't have a monitor connected to the onboard video, you won't see BIOS messages, Windows boot options, and so on.



2) If you don't set Windows properly, it may use the onboard video as the primary display. If you don't have a monitor connected to the onbioard video, your monitor will go blank as soon as Windows boots.



3) The onboard video will consume some resources, typically 32-128MB of low memory. With a 32-bit operating system and 4GB of RAM, low memory is precious. Otherwise, it doesn't matter all that much.



If none of these things are a problem for you, you can leave the onboard video enabled.