3 Monitor Situation.

[kev4956]

Ok, here's what I've got. My pc is a Gateway Media Center PC. It originally came with a PCIE ATI Radeon X300 video card with only one VGA and one S-Video output. My plan was to have a total of 3 monitors hooked up to this pc, so I bought another video card, NVidia GeForce Fx5500 with dual-VGA output and S-Video output. Now this video card is just regular old PCI. I installed it and thepc recognizes it. When I go into Display properties, all of the monitors are also listed. It shows monitor #1, which is the primary monitor on the ATI card. And then it also shows monitors 2, 3, and 4. Two is the secondary output from the ATI card and 3 and 4 are my other two lcd monitors on the Nvidia card. All monitors except for #1 are "grayed out." When my pc is on, I have video on the primary monitor and nothing on the other two, like the video card isn't sending any signal. Anyway, whenever I try to extend the desktop to these other two monitors, the computer freezes up and I have to restart. Can anyone tell me what kind of problem I may be facing? Is it because one card is PCIE and one is just PCI? Thanks for the help.

[Friedchicken100]

Did you install Hydravision?

[yohon125]

make sure you have the latest drivers for each card. also. it might be wise to try installing only one of the monitors at a time and only one video card at a time. how much memory does your system have?

[kev4956]

512mb Ddr

[kev4956]

Hydravision??