I am trying to see if I can get more than 4 monitors hooked up in Vista Home Premium 64-bit. Right now I already have a Radeon
4850 X2 driving 4 monitors, and today I went and bought another card, a Radeon 3870 with dual head display. Silly me, I thought that I could just place it in the PC and that it would work alongside the original. Fat chance. Anyways, the minute I plugged it in, the computer took forever to boot, the CPU started railing at 100% on bootup (mind you this is a Core i7 920 we're talking about here with 12 Gigs of RAM, not exactly a weak machine), and my 4 monitors attached to the 4850 x2 flickered on and off. When I removed the second card everything went back to normal.
I talked to someone about this and he said that Vista doesn't support more than 4 monitors with "retail hardware", and that plugging in a second card will just cause these types of problems if I am already running a quad-display card in the system. He suggested going with some type of Matrox "commercial" solution, which is out of the question for me at the moment, since I am not getting rid of my original card.
Can someone please explain to me why the idiots at Microsoft can't make their next-gen operating system support the same number of monitors as easily as their previous one? Or was the guy wrong and has someone actually done this successfully?
4850 X2 driving 4 monitors, and today I went and bought another card, a Radeon 3870 with dual head display. Silly me, I thought that I could just place it in the PC and that it would work alongside the original. Fat chance. Anyways, the minute I plugged it in, the computer took forever to boot, the CPU started railing at 100% on bootup (mind you this is a Core i7 920 we're talking about here with 12 Gigs of RAM, not exactly a weak machine), and my 4 monitors attached to the 4850 x2 flickered on and off. When I removed the second card everything went back to normal.
I talked to someone about this and he said that Vista doesn't support more than 4 monitors with "retail hardware", and that plugging in a second card will just cause these types of problems if I am already running a quad-display card in the system. He suggested going with some type of Matrox "commercial" solution, which is out of the question for me at the moment, since I am not getting rid of my original card.
Can someone please explain to me why the idiots at Microsoft can't make their next-gen operating system support the same number of monitors as easily as their previous one? Or was the guy wrong and has someone actually done this successfully?
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