Chapbass
Diamond Member
alright, so i recently set up a triple monitor setup, and im having a couple issues with it.
first off, the specs.
2x gateway FPD1985W's (19" widescreen, 1440x900)
1x dell 2407WFP (24" widescreen, 1920x1200)
the dell is in the middle surrounded by the two gateways.
graphics cards:
Geforce 8800GTS going into the dell
radeon 7000 64mb (pci) doing DVI to one and VGA to the other of the gateways
(anyone think i should plug two into the 8800 and one into the 7000? ill be gaming on one and just desktop and extra stuff on the other two)
alright, so the problem: when i was initially installing it the dell would come on, find the hardware for the radeon, and then the screen would go dark, and never come back on. i did a little searching, and found out that ATI cards like to be the "init display first". so i went into my bios and set it to pci, and then the gateways kicked on.
heres where it gets weird...it was seeing both video cards, and could tell that something was connected to them, but when i go to change the settings in display -> settings i got this error:
"The currently selected graphics display driver can not be used. it was written for a previous version of windows, and is no longer compatible with this version of windows.
the system has been started using the default VGA driver.
please contact your hardware manufacturer to get an upgraded driver, or select one of the microsoft provided drivers."
and if i go to select my resolution on the nvidia card, it just gives me -1 by -1....
i tried last night reinstalling my nvidia drivers, and then all three monitors worked for a while, but now i just woke up and were back to the same problem.
i tried using omega drivers for the ATI card, and everything got all messed up. so i uninstalled those, went back to the microsoft ones that windows used originally. that worked great for a bit, now they dont. so i tried the ATI ones, no change.
any thoughts anyone?
first off, the specs.
2x gateway FPD1985W's (19" widescreen, 1440x900)
1x dell 2407WFP (24" widescreen, 1920x1200)
the dell is in the middle surrounded by the two gateways.
graphics cards:
Geforce 8800GTS going into the dell
radeon 7000 64mb (pci) doing DVI to one and VGA to the other of the gateways
(anyone think i should plug two into the 8800 and one into the 7000? ill be gaming on one and just desktop and extra stuff on the other two)
alright, so the problem: when i was initially installing it the dell would come on, find the hardware for the radeon, and then the screen would go dark, and never come back on. i did a little searching, and found out that ATI cards like to be the "init display first". so i went into my bios and set it to pci, and then the gateways kicked on.
heres where it gets weird...it was seeing both video cards, and could tell that something was connected to them, but when i go to change the settings in display -> settings i got this error:
"The currently selected graphics display driver can not be used. it was written for a previous version of windows, and is no longer compatible with this version of windows.
the system has been started using the default VGA driver.
please contact your hardware manufacturer to get an upgraded driver, or select one of the microsoft provided drivers."
and if i go to select my resolution on the nvidia card, it just gives me -1 by -1....
i tried last night reinstalling my nvidia drivers, and then all three monitors worked for a while, but now i just woke up and were back to the same problem.
i tried using omega drivers for the ATI card, and everything got all messed up. so i uninstalled those, went back to the microsoft ones that windows used originally. that worked great for a bit, now they dont. so i tried the ATI ones, no change.
any thoughts anyone?
