Another PCI + PCI-E Thread

[MartinD]

Hey

Newbie to the forum here. I'm wanting to run 1 x pci and 1 x pci-e cards to run 4 screens.

I've got an ATI Radeon X1550 in the PCI-E slot and an nVidia GeForce 6 in the PCI slot.
Doesn't matter what I do, I can't get the nVidia to show anything more than 4bit colour and 640x480 resolution. I've installed, reinstalled, removed and installed the drivers more times that I can remember and searched all over Googleand for answers but I'm getting nowhere.

Anyone got any suggestions?


Cheers,

Mart

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Which OS are you using? Only XP allows for two different drivers.

Edit: I suppose you could just get a splitter (DVI to 2x D-SUB) for your X1550 if it works fine already.

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
Which OS are you using? Only XP allows for two different drivers.

Edit: I suppose you could just get a splitter (DVI to 2x D-SUB) for your X1550 if it works fine already.

I don't think he wants a 4x clone

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Oh oops, forgot about that.

 

[MartinD]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
Which OS are you using? Only XP allows for two different drivers.

Edit: I suppose you could just get a splitter (DVI to 2x D-SUB) for your X1550 if it works fine already.

I'm on XP, sorry - should have mentioned that.
And yeah, I want 4 screens for my desktop, not 4 clones 🙂

Don't laugh - while waiting delivery of the nvidia, I was using a voodoo3 in the pci slot and all was working fine with 3 screens. So I know the motherboard is happy to support pci-e + pci, just doesn't seem to be liking this card it seems!

 

[themisfit610]

Why mix ATi and nVidia cards? That seems like all kinds of bad...

I've run 4 screens at once before using a Radeon 9200 AGP card and a Radeon 9000 PCI card. It worked perfectly fine all 4 over VGA at 1680x1050. No problems at all.

~MiSfit