How to enable on board video?

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edited May 2010 in Hardware
My video card supports HDMI but it does not have a HDMI plug in but my motherboard does. When I plug in the HDMI to my motherboard I get no signal. I am using DVI right now on my video card so I plugged it into the DVI on my motherboard and still no signal. I heard you have to enable something in bios but I cant find out what it is called.

Here is my video card: http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4870/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4870-specifications.aspx

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131318

Comments

  • JingallsJingalls Eugene, OR
    edited May 2010
    There's no point to using the on-board video if you have that graphics card installed. The card won't be able to send what it renders through the motherboard's outputs.
    I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but it sounds like what you want is probably a DVI-HDMI adapter. With that you can send HDMI out of your graphics card, and I believe it will also carry the sound.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    Hey, your video card should have come with an adapter that converts your DVI port to HDMI like what Jingalls linked to above.

    If you don't have one, I might have a spare...

    In the meantime, you can disconnect your video card. Pull it from your system and then hook up the TV to your mobo's HDMI. It should auto-detect it as the correct video source.
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