johnemerson Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I was hoping someone might have a tip to get around a problem I have with my video setup on a 10.4.5 install. While not a huge problem, I can see my situation becoming a tad annoying in the longterm. I have a P5LD2-VM motherboard, with onboard video. On the same machine, I also have a nvidia geforce N6600 PCI-Express video card. What I was hoping to do is use the N6600 in Windows and Linux, and just make a quick change in the bios to boot with the P5LD2's built in video, and re-plug the monitor when I booted into OSX. Except...OSX seems to freak out if I attempt to use the P5LD2's video when the N6600 is installed inside the computer. If I physically remove the card, it'll use the P5LD2 video output with no problem. But if the N6600 is connected, booting with the same bios settings that worked fine when the card wasn't installed, will just give me the halt and die on OSX's blue bootup screen. I can boot into OSX using the N6600 as the video device, but it's not such a great option given the support difference betwean it and the P5LD2's video in OSX. Is this an unfixable quirk, or is there any way to make OSX somehow blind to the N6600 card being in there? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13041-onboard-video-video-card-on-p5ld2-vm/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
declan Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I have the same problem, and as of yet my answer is if another gfx is installed, despite any settings in the bios, os x won't boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13041-onboard-video-video-card-on-p5ld2-vm/#findComment-82781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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