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two display adapters conflict. I have only one video card

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moejr

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I have a ATI Radeon 9700 pro and windows xp insist that I have two display adapters when I have only one video card in my system. The drivers for the secondary adapter(not suppose to have one) is conflicting with my primary adapter. Everytime I uninstall the secondary adapter windows xp reinstalls it on its own I can't stop it from doing so. I think the problem occured when I tried to install the new ati catalyst drivers. Is there any way I can get rid of the secondary display adapter and stop windows xp from detecting a second display adapter? I tried uninstalling all display adapters and drivers and reintall from new but windows xp still wants to install a second display adapter. I am at a complete lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Moejr
 
Boot into safe mode. Run device manager and remove all instances of the video card. Reboot, and let windows detect and install the card.

Tim
 
Thats normal, The Radeon 9700 has dual RAMDAC (Primary and secondary) for dual monitor support.
 
I do not have a dual monitor conflict, I have only monitor. My problem is with windows xp. For some reason windows xp thinks I have a pci video card. In my device manager it has primary display adapter as agp radeon 9700 pro(which is ok) and second display adapter as PCI radeon 9700 pro(which does not belong there). Is there any way I can manually delete the second display adapter from the windows xp registry?
 
Like I said...this is normal. It doesn't matter that you don't have a monitor connected to both monitor connectors, the hardware still exists on the video card.
 
I have the same thing with my 9700 PRO.

I think it is normal also.

Do you have conflicts with it?

EDIT:
Sorry, I reread.
The second one is conflicting with the first, as in yellow exclamation marks or as a conflict warning?



🙂
 
the second video card drivers are conflicting with the primary video card drivers. Some games just won't play, some do but poorly and very buggy. Looks like I will have to contact ATI technical support to help get rid of the second video card from windows registry. I had this video card for over a year and never had any troubles like this until I upgraded the catalyst drivers.
 
the second video card drivers are conflicting with the primary video card drivers. Some games just won't play, some do but poorly and very buggy. Looks like I will have to contact ATI technical support to help get rid of the second video card from windows registry. I had this video card for over a year and never had any troubles like this until I upgraded the catalyst drivers.
 
you guys were right all along. it must be something else causing my games not to work properly. Thx anyways for the help!
 
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