Graphics card listed twice in device manager?

Ronin13

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After swopping my GeForce 4 Ti4400 for a HIS Radeon 9800 Pro Ice-Q, I've noted that the Radeon is listed twice in device manager, as 'RADEON 9800 PRO' and 'RADEON 9800 PRO - Secondary'.

Why the double listing?

(I think I actually tried to delete the second listing, but it just showed up again. And I won't try to do it again before consulting the board...)

For more details about this PC, see my sig.


I also recently build a PC with a 3.0 GHz P4, which I believe did the same thing, only this time it was the CPU which was listed twice.

Again, why is that?
 

MDE

Lifer
Jul 17, 2003
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It's normal. All dual head ATI cards are like that. The P4 did that because HyperThreading makes the CPU appear to be two.