Problem fixed.

[y00ycdz]

Original post below, but problem is fixed and www.computergeeks.com is selling ghetto Radeon VE Dual Monitor cards....



My brother just went and bought some Radeon VE Dual Display card because he wanted dual montors like me, hehe ( I use the Matrox G450)

Well we put the card in, it detected and we can use windows fine, but we only get the same display on both screens. Now it was time to do an update for the drivers, I went on to ATI's site and found the only drivers I could which were there version 6.13.3276 for WinXP, good for ATI Radeon all the way up to ATI Radeon 8500....

We ran the driver update exe and it just spit out that his Radeon card was not supported by that driver update.

Now i'm not sure if these driver updates INCLUDE the Dual Display version of the Radeon VE. But if they don't, I cannot find anything else..

Also ATI has something called the HydraVision, I think its software to control the dual-montor display. We did NOT receive this software on CD or anything and ATI's site does not serve it, they claim its only available on CD currently.

Could someone please grab a WinXP compatible copy of the HydaVision software and hook me up?

or help me find the 'right' drivers -- I think the ones I found were right, but not entirely sure.

THIS is the card he bought.

Thanks!
-y00yCDz

 

[RPB]

from your link

Note: For dual independent display in 2000 or XP, you must use drivers below

also


NOTE: The version we are selling has 2 SVGA 15-pin Outputs and NO DVI Output

Please Note: This verison of the ATi Radeon VE does NOT have DDR (Double Data
Rate) Memory. Please also note that the box will state that this memory is on
the card but it is not.

this is not a normal radeon ve

 

[y00ycdz]

whoa, deffinetely did NOT read that fine print and that info about the drivers...

computergeeks is sneaky, that was our first purchase from the site, don't really like most of the hot deals I see from there...

Thanks very much RPB, we're trying this right now.

Cya,
-y00yCDz

 

[y00ycdz]

Wow such a simple solution, thanks again RPB

That is one ghetto card tho, everything is changed around and the REAL Radeon drivers don't even work, the box seems to be a real Radeon VE box, basically I must go laugh at my brother now....

Those 'ghetto' drivers worked, but what was funny was that the background of the driver setup program wasn't even a pure red like the background of the real ATI drivers setup. It made it seem more 'ghetto'

LOL!
-y00yCDz

 

[RPB]

shopping online is always risky.

 

[dbal]

Why don't u change the topic subject now my friend??
It's very misleading for all of us who own the ORIGINAL VE and face no problem at all.........