- Joined
- Sep 1, 2012
- Messages
- 105
- Motherboard
- Gibabyte Z77X-UD5H
- CPU
- I7-3770K
- Graphics
- GTX 980 Ti
- Mobile Phone
Hey everyone,
So, I have
Z77X-UD5H motherboard + i7 3770K + GTX 670 graphics card. Both have worked great OOB for several years now.
I never use the onboard graphics, but would like to have the onboard graphics enabled ONLY for the boot screens (the BIOS Screen, the Chimera screen, and the apple boot screen). My reason for this is purely aesthetic - using Nvidia cards, these bios and bootloading screens typically underscan and have large black space on the sides of the screen. When I use internal graphics, these boot screens take up the entire monitor screen space and it looks great - as there is no current fix for the Nvidia cards, the simplest solution seems to be this:
As my monitor has multiple inputs, I can run one cable from my onboard graphics from the motherboard to the monitor, thus giving me the ability to see the boot screens properly. Setting INIT display first to IGFX in the BIOS uses this output. However, internal graphics remain enabled even after booting. My motherboard will not let me both disable internal graphics and also use internal graphics as INIT display first - it simply switches INIT display first to "auto" and keeps internal graphics disabled, outputting through the graphics card on the loading screens.
Any suggestions as to how I can make this work?
So, I have
Z77X-UD5H motherboard + i7 3770K + GTX 670 graphics card. Both have worked great OOB for several years now.
I never use the onboard graphics, but would like to have the onboard graphics enabled ONLY for the boot screens (the BIOS Screen, the Chimera screen, and the apple boot screen). My reason for this is purely aesthetic - using Nvidia cards, these bios and bootloading screens typically underscan and have large black space on the sides of the screen. When I use internal graphics, these boot screens take up the entire monitor screen space and it looks great - as there is no current fix for the Nvidia cards, the simplest solution seems to be this:
As my monitor has multiple inputs, I can run one cable from my onboard graphics from the motherboard to the monitor, thus giving me the ability to see the boot screens properly. Setting INIT display first to IGFX in the BIOS uses this output. However, internal graphics remain enabled even after booting. My motherboard will not let me both disable internal graphics and also use internal graphics as INIT display first - it simply switches INIT display first to "auto" and keeps internal graphics disabled, outputting through the graphics card on the loading screens.
Any suggestions as to how I can make this work?
