AGP AND PCI VIDEO CARDS AT THE SAME TIME. CAN IT BE DONE?

[Makati]

CAN YOU RUN AN AGP VIDEO CARD WITH A PCI OR MUST YOU RUN 2 PCI TO GET DUAL VIDEO CARDS.
Can anyone help me. Ihave a KT7 motherboard with a Duron 700Mhz running at 700Mhz (WinME). I am running a geforce 2 GTS AGP video card and want to add an additional video card. Ibought a Voodoo2 2000 PCI card and when I installed it the machine started up and the monitor on the AGP card came up with a message about Display properties and the "Settings tab". When i selected the settings tav - blue screen. Try again abd both monitor are there but when i select monitor 2 message "Your primary display card must support 256 colour or more" followed by "Run DLL" error. Reinstall windows, format hard disk, drop down to Win98 - Similar problems.
HAS ANYONE MANAGED TO ACHIEVE THIS. PLEASE HELP.

 

[DealyDo]

Yes, I think. If you have Windows SE it gives support for two monitors off two seperate video cards AGP or PCI or any combo. Just go to Control Panel and activate it. Just like if you had a single Matrox G400 card.

 

[Makati]

Deally,

It's got support but when I go to the C Panel in ME it cicks up the blue screen when I click the settings tab. Enter brings windows back. When I load the CP and click settings this second time I get a RunDLL error and the CP closes.

On 98SE both cards seem to have dropped to 16 colour only (or less) even though the relevent drivers are installed.
Thnaks anyway.

 

[Jonny]

Well I have had a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP and a ATI Rage Pro PCI workign perfect in all operating systems. Somethimes, to fix issues I had I would just tell it to boot from the opposite video card, and that would fix it. (Option in the bios that lets you choose what video it boots from first when you turn your computer on, it should have PCI and AGP)

Also, try different PCI slots, it could be an IRQ issue.

 

[Makati]

Cheers for the advice Jonny I tried switching PCI's didn't seem to have an effect I'll try the BIOS tonight.
On the KT7 PCI slot 1 and the AGP slot share the same IRQ do you know whether I should avoid putting the cards in with the same IRQ or is it an advantage?

Thanks again

 

[Jonny]

Yeah, I have heard that that's not a good idea to have them right beside each other. I know I never tried them in my system beside each other so I cannot say for sure, but that is the reason I didn't in the first place.

 

[Makati]

I'll keep them apart then

Thanks again