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dual monitor question

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I have win 2k prof and was trying to setup a dual monitor system. I have Geforce 2 GTS as the primary (AGP) card and a creative graphics blaster as the secondary (PCI) card. The problem is, win 2k detects the second card but there is a yellow exclamation mark besides the card and it says "unable to start device"
Does anyone have any idea why this should be happening?
BTW there are no resources allocated to the card because it "failed to start"
is there a particular pci slot I should be using or some bios setting?
I am using KT7-raid with SB live and a ISa modem.
 
to be honest with u win2k is realy gay and i wouldnt use it unless for business purposes. im running win2k now and i cand install my scanner although i got the "win2k" drivers for it.... windows shows that green arrow in desktop and tells me its safe to unplug the device... wierd. im plannig to go back to win98 cuz win ME is a cross over between the 2 OSs and it inherited the worse genes possible form both. In my opinion ME just blows big time. Win2k i dont think has yet made itself very visible on the market today.. not too many things are made with win2k support.... just the basic stuff that u could find in an office. anyhow the problem might be that win2k is anal and

a) it dosent like 2 v.cards - cuz in its opinion u should only have one, a PCI or AGP
b) the cards are not compatible with one another (educated quess), one is older the other newer, and i dont know if u can have a dual monitor setup using 2 seperate cards (i thought u need one card with 2 outlets)
c)maybe try to reinstall the GTS

i really cant help u cuz i never had that problem.... sorry One thing for sure... u can blame win2k for the problems u have.
 
I'm thinking that you should ask your question at real time soft multimon forums there are are lot of people there that can help you out, my current setup uses an ATI all in wonder pro PCI as primary and a Voodoo3 AGP as secondary, your video cards should work as well, ask the question on that forum above.
 
Do you know if that card is supported or can be used as a secondary card? That might be why it can't be started.
 
Right now I'm in Win2k with a Geforce2MX as the AGP card and a Matrox Millenium G200 PCI as the secondary, PCI card. Running 1 monitor on each card, and it works fine. My guess is that its possible, if the Creative Graphics Blaster is also based on an nVidia chipset, that there's a driver conflict and Windows2000 or the nVidia driver might not like having to nVidias in one computer, but I'm not sure about that. Try a different PCI card, and see if it works that way.
Hope this in even any remote way helps 🙂
 
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