I have an ATI Rage Pro based PCI display adapter, the Xpert 98. It's graced with an incompatability: to work as a display adapter in a multi-adapter Win2K system, it has to be primary.
I also have a Matrox G200, which I want primary. It doesn't care, this thing has to be the best, most stable, and best looking (in 2D) card I've ever owned.
So, I have the system boot PCI first, and have Win2K use the G200 as the primary monitor. All should be happy, but I get all kinds of goofy crap going on. The G200 wont fire up, shutdowns/restarts don't work. Drivers are all the newest though, and I've changed the BIOS to not assign IRQ's to VGA. This seemed to help a bit, things are less erratic. Currently, the ATI card has no IRQ and the G200 has it's own unshared IRQ (10 or 11).
I'd like tips, ideas, nudges. What else should I try? I'm about to spend a couple more hours on this, pulling other cards and playing around to see if the shutdown/boot problem is something else (can't be sure yet). Other then that, input please?
Here is the machine. <- "Work"
I also have a Matrox G200, which I want primary. It doesn't care, this thing has to be the best, most stable, and best looking (in 2D) card I've ever owned.
So, I have the system boot PCI first, and have Win2K use the G200 as the primary monitor. All should be happy, but I get all kinds of goofy crap going on. The G200 wont fire up, shutdowns/restarts don't work. Drivers are all the newest though, and I've changed the BIOS to not assign IRQ's to VGA. This seemed to help a bit, things are less erratic. Currently, the ATI card has no IRQ and the G200 has it's own unshared IRQ (10 or 11).
I'd like tips, ideas, nudges. What else should I try? I'm about to spend a couple more hours on this, pulling other cards and playing around to see if the shutdown/boot problem is something else (can't be sure yet). Other then that, input please?
Here is the machine. <- "Work"
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