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Old 09-12-2016, 05:27 PM
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AMD mobo's usually have an onboard video chip set. Mine does. The way you can tell is go into bios settings and examine the video settings which I think are in advanced settings. It will give you an option to enable/disable the onboard video. If onboard is off, I wouldn't even bother with it, just do the swap.

But anywawy, you just simply uninstall the drivers, power down, swap the card and power up. When you power up you can check bios settings and see if it's being recognized, optional. As windows starts, it'll recognize new hardware and give you a prompt. You have the disk with drivers, install it. When it starts, it'll be using generic drivers which is normal, as you removed the old drivers, and so you install the new drivers and control suite.

Standard procedure, we even did this in my A+ prep class in college. Even on current hardware, I put an Radeon in my ASUS system originally and then later swapped it out for a Geforce.
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Anyway, does anyone foresee any problems from swapping to Nvidia card on an AMD chipset and likely, an AMD motherboard?
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Nope, no issues. Actually you will have better results. Nvidia makes all the best graphics tools for programming, it's what everyone uses. ATI/AMD makes shiat, only like render monkey or whatever it is/was called and was a pile of junk last I used it years ago. Nvidia tools are a programmers best friend. So when you use your Geforce or whatever, it was all originally written for it, for games etc. and ATI is more of a port in a sense.
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Old 09-13-2016, 01:20 PM
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It appears your board (2AC8) is terrible about upgrades.

Lots of good reading here:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=2ac8+video+upgrade

I think what needs to happen is a bios update for your board to make other cards compatible.

This thread has a resolution:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop...d/td-p/3108285

The link posted to the documentation is broken on their page, here is a fixed link:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03092621
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Old 09-13-2016, 03:00 PM
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Thank you nilbog. Saved me some headache (and probably a non-working PC). Ill dig into those links.
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Old 09-13-2016, 06:24 PM
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It appears your board (2AC8) is terrible about upgrades.

Lots of good reading here:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=2ac8+video+upgrade

I think what needs to happen is a bios update for your board to make other cards compatible.

This thread has a resolution:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop...d/td-p/3108285

The link posted to the documentation is broken on their page, here is a fixed link:
http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03092621
The only BIOS update listed by HP (when I punched in the model number of the rig on their BIOS/Driver update search engine):

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M3970AM-HP Motherboard BIOS Update

7.16 Rev. A 3.1 MB Nov 23, 2012
Doesn't look very promising. I am not even sure that qualifies as a "BIOS update", when we talk about updating the BIOS. I mean 2012 ?? I checked the changelog in that BIOS update and it looks very underwhelming...I'm thinking this is a no-go but I can't prove it. I am thinking if I do this, I have to be prepared to pull a new rig out and approach this swap eyes-wide-open.

Still researching other people who have gone ahead and attempted it on this mobo/OS looking for a sign.
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