driver conflicts with ATI and NVidia?

[SKC]

since the s-video out on my bfg6800 decided to take a break, I'm considering installing my radeon 9000 pci in my system. Will having both ATI and Nvidia drivers on my system cause conflicts? Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks very much..

 

[impemonk]

I have no clue... but from experience (currently) I have both the Nvidia Control panel and the ATI control panel and wierd enough as it is my system is stable. No problems whatsoever. I went from an ATI 9600SE to several Nvidia cards and I forgot to uninstall my ATI drivers before installing my 6x00 series cards. It's wierd lol. Just make sure you check in your BIOS that your VGA adapter is set at AGP/PCI priority.

 

[SKC]

impemonk, thanks for the info, and for the reminder about the bios! I'll give it a try; hopefully my system doesn't mind it. :beer:

 

[lavaheadache]

Rma the BFG thats what the lifetime warranty is for

 

[uOpt]

I had trouble mixing ATI AGP and Nvidia PCI. Restarting the grahics subsystem would not properly initialize the ATI card and I had to reboot the whole machine.

I bought a second NVidia card, since then it runs fine.

 

[SKC]

thanks for the replies.. dammit. Not sure what I'll try yet. Does anyone else have experience with this? I remember reading an old post about how matrox + nvidia wasn't bad.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

As far as I know, ATi and nVidia have always had clashing drivers when put onto the same system. When MaxPC built their nutty rig to have something like 3 or 5 monitors(before SLi) they used the same brand cards, citing issues originally trying to mix ATi and nVidia.

RMA the BFG, that's what a lifetime warrenty is for. I know it's going to take some time, but it's easier than sorting out driver issues.