3 displays

[ezkim0x]

I have a Nvidia Geforce 6600, my monitor is plugged in, and my tv into the s-video input.

I'm wondering if I install another video card (ATI Rage XL PCI) would I be able to plug a second monitor into this? I want to have a dual display.. and then put windows media center screen on my tv.

if it's possible at all.

 

[havuk]

take a look at this...

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/th2go/gaming/home.cfm

 

[josh6079]

Ummm....I don't think you can have an ATI card and an Nvidia card on the same mb. I don't know for sure though since you're talking about a regular pci slot card.

 

[keeleysam]

Yes, you can do it.

 

[ezkim0x]

how would I go about doing that?

I don't want to buy the "TripleHead2Go" thing, as I already have a setup that I'm trying to configure to work if it's possible.

right now my monitor/tv are working fine (plugged into nvidia)

but the second video card won't install correctly.. it's showing a caution flag in device manager. I tried downloading the driver installation from ATI.com but it says it has conflicts with the current video or something.. I think it's trying to install the driver on the nVidia driver possibly.

any ideas?

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

Are you sure you downloaded the rage driver? it's different from the radeon driver.

Also try moving it to a different PCI slot and see if that helps.

 

[ezkim0x]

Knowledge Base
ATI Customer Care > Drivers and Software > Windows XP > RAGE > RAGE XL >

Filename: WXP-RAGEXL-5-10-2600-6009.EXE

right? - I have windowsxp mce

 

[ezkim0x]

ahh man.

I just uninstalled the driver from device manager.. and reinstalled that.. restarted and it worked.. this is awesome. ahah.

thanks.

 

[Peter]

Solved already ... anyway. I'd like to add that you can have as many VGA cards in the system as you please - as long as every single one has "multi-VGA" capability. Really early PCI chips typically didn't have that, while about all post-1998 stuff should.
You'll notice when Windows says "Can't enable this device" even though all drivers are installed properly.