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To: Leland Charon who wrote (8993)10/7/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: hasan syed  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
Leland, w/ IBM, as well as most commercial PCs, its occasionally difficult to disable the onboard graphics chipset. I'm not saying it can't be done, but having gone through an Aptiva S-9c and an E series, I simply gave up.

I subsequently resolved to purchase computers where the video cards are not part of the motherboard. Last fall, I purchased a DELL (be careful, the Celeron Dells have onboard video also and can't be upgraded) and donated the IBMs since they couldn't accomodate multimonitors. Again, I'm not saying it can't be done, but having modest technical knowledge, I couldn't do it and neither could a couple local PC places. Perhaps someone on this thread could assist you further. I hope this helps.

Regards,
Hasan
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