dual monitors on xp

[griffinmill]

i got the computer to find both monitors but the pci monitor stops on the windows xp loading screen as the agp monitor takes over and finishes loading....and the pci monitor just stays on the loading screen

Check your Bios for initialize display first settings. For me, I used initialize AGP first to get my GeForce 4 4400 and Voodoo 5 5500 working together in XP.

[griffinmill]

i had it boot from the agp first but to get the pci to work it had to boot first....but it only goes so far before the agp starts up and the pci locks

[muno]

The secondary monitor shouldn't show anything before the login screen appears, it should stay black.

The display initialization sequence should be agp first.
When xp loads, it finds the secondary display adapter and monitor, installs the drivers and it's ready. You only need to expand the desktop to the other monitor then.

I have a gf2mx400 as my primary adapter hooked on 21" compaq and some elsa gloria synergy as secondary adapter hooked on 17" nokia, works fine.
Back when running w2k I had some cirrus logic adapter, but xp refused to function with it so I had to change.

Initializing the pci adapter first makes it the primary display and that is not what you want.
-M