Why would my computer use the PCI slot when it has a onboard intergrated video card?

Um I have a Dell inspiron 531 that has an intergrated geforce 6150se nforce 430 which is the onboard card right? but BIOS is saying that the default is something coming from the PCI slot...wut?|||Yes sometimes the bios shows the graphics as PCI but if you are plugged into the "on board" and there is nothing in the PCIe or PCI slot your using the ON board graphics. You can always change the bios to On board...then if you get a Video "card" and plug it into the PCIe slot it should automatically switch to the PCIe slot...with older boards you had to manually switch the bios to the PCIe bus. In some boards if you take out the video card from the PCIe slot it doesn't automatically switch back to the on board, you have to do it in the bios.|||>Default should be the integrated video, otherwise it should be PCIe.



So if you are using the built in (integrated) video, it is ONBOARD

If you have a PCIe x 16 video card it should be PCI-E

Then, some motherboards allow the OLD FASHIONED PCI video type card - almonst nobody makes them, but they are still around (I know a place that still sells them) - This should be the PCI setting.



You see there was a time before PCIe, and before it, AGP - that was back in the good old days about 15 years ago.|||Are you saying that your computer's BIOS states that it is detecting something in a PCI slot, or just that it has the PCI slot set as the default? If the latter is the case, that would make sense, as it would use a discrete graphics card if you add one, but would otherwise default to the integrated video.|||You might actually have a physical board in a PCI slot. You could look in the back and see if your VGA cable is plugged into the motherboard or into a board in one of the slots.

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