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DUAL Monitor help

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Athlonin

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Hi, I'm trying to set up a dual monitor setting for my computer. I have the AGP GF3 as the primary card and and ATI mach64 PCI card as secondary. Windows XP reported that the PCI card cannot be started (code 10). The PCI card is known to be a good card. I read about someone else have the same problem but never found the answer. Can someone help me out. THANKS!
 
Good luck with an ATI as a second. I've never been able to make one work.

Edit: If you have a non-ATI, try it. I bet it works.
 
I vaguely recall running into the Mach64 problem also. It wouldn't run in dual video card mode due to the drivers available for the card. I swapped in a plain Jane S3 variety and the guy has had no trouble since...
 
unfortinatly i dont have a spare pci card. ati is trouble. anyone have some suggestions to make my current setup work.
 


<< Good luck with an ATI as a second. I've never been able to make one work. >>



I am running a Radeon 64ddr as primary and an ATI rage 128 pro 16mb pci as secondary. Not a single problem or hitch, ran Win2k first and now am running Win XP Pro.
 
That ATI won't work as a secondary adapter under XP.

No driver fix for this. It's a hardware limitation of the ATI's chipset. The problem afflicts most of their cards based on the Rage Pro, I believe, such as the Xpert98. But there is a possible
workaround.
 
Windows said my video card could not start once, and all I had to do was reseat it. That was my main card, and I run my secondary monitor on a Voodoo3 2000. You should just pick up a cheap Voodoo3 to use as your secondary.
 
AHEM! Put the ATi card as primary *in BIOS*, but set it to secondary in WinXP.

Problem solved. I'd almost 100+% gaurantee it.

-SUO
 
SUO i didn't catch your post before mine. I poked around my BIOS and saw "Init display first". could choose between AGP and PCI. Is that what you mean?
 
<<SUO i didn't catch your post before mine. I poked around my BIOS and saw "Init display first". could choose between AGP and PCI. Is that what you mean? >>

Yes that's the fix they recommend at realtimesoft.com. Set "init display first" to PCI. When the system boots you should see the POST info on the monitor hooked up to the ATI.

In WindowsXP go into display properties, highlight the monitor with the Geforce on it and click the box that says "Use this device as the primary monitor"


 
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