Thanks for the advice.  Have the board laying on my bench right now.  No
identifiable jumper for video.  May have found source of online manual.
Will take a look at it later.

Ian Carmchael


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>Greetings Ian and List--
>
>You wrote. . .
>
>
>>. . . Presario desktop which had its
>>on-board vga connector broken off (you should meet my niece).  Model
>>number from bottom of case sez "series cm1001" (found no reference for
>>this @ support site).
>>
>>
>and . . .
>
>
>>Anyone know the exact keystrokes necessary to blindly enter bios,
>>disable on-board vid (enable pci vid), and exit with a save?
>>
>>
>
>The last time I entered the BIOS of a Compaq Presario, the
>key to press was F10. You've probably already thought of this,
>but you should examine the motherboard to try to locate a pair
>of jumper pins to enable/disable the on-board video. Some
>motherboards automatically disable the on-board video when an
>adapter is inserted, but it wouldn't hurt to check to make sure.
>
>HTH,
>
>Paul A. Shippert
>Library Media Specialist
>
>

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