Dell PowerEdge T300 onboard ATI vs Nvidia PCI Express

CanOfBees

CanOfBees

Hi all,

I'm curious if anyone here has had any experiences with PowerEdge T300s & its GPU. My temporary desktop replacement may be an older T300, but the onboard ATI ES1000 RN50 seems like it may be a problem.

I'd like to get a slightly stronger video card in one of the PCI Express x4 slots, and I think I've found a few Nvidia cards that are potential candidates. However, I'm not sure if the onboard ATI chip will interfere with the PCI card. Is this a potential problem?

I've looked through the BIOS and I don't see a switch to disable the ATI chip.

Thanks in advance for your time and trouble.
 
The system may disable it if an add-on video card is connected. If it doesn't, only specifying the new card in the Device section of xorg.conf should keep X from trying to use the old one.
 
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