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    Help needed regarding 'Init display first' BIOS option

    I recently built a new desktop PC, and have finally got around to looking at the BIOS settings in detail. I noticed that the 'Init display first' setting is set to PCI slot. I have a PCI-E graphics card however, and I just wondered if I should change this setting to the other option, which is 'PCIEx'.

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    it doesnt really matter the only potential reason why you might want a pci-slot graphics card booting first instead of a pci-e one is if you'd buggered up a firmware update on the pci-e one and were trying to recover it using a pci card (rather than just booting blind and hoping!)

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    Ok. Do you know why it was set to PCI though instead of PCIEX?

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    Because that's what the default is from the manufacturer.

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    I think they all are because it is the basic setting.

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