Dual Monitors?

darrelld · May 14th, 2002, 07:44 PM

I've got a GeForrce 2 Mx400 AGP and an ATI Rage fury pro PCI. Is it possible to use these for a dual monitor setup?
I'm running WinXP and when I install the ATI I get a message that it can't be started.

Kruzin · May 14th, 2002, 08:05 PM

Some PCI cards don't like to run in multi-monitor mode unless they are the primary boot display device.
Go to your mobo BIOS and try changing the primary video to PCI.

darrelld · May 15th, 2002, 02:15 AM

That was it, Thanks!

edwelly · May 18th, 2002, 02:04 AM

How do you like it? i finally got dual monitors setup myself and I reallylike it...
---edwelly

darrelld · May 18th, 2002, 10:43 AM

I like it enough that I will keep using it. There are a few minor annoyances though. I can't stretch my desktop across them, and I can't use different backgrounds. It's pretty cool to be able to drag stuff from one monitor to another.

Peter M · May 18th, 2002, 11:11 AM

Just for the record, it's more like many NVidia chip based cards don't like being the primary card in a multi-VGA situation.

regards, Peter