multi-dsiplay screwed up when switching to win 2k from win 98 - Page 2 - Tech Support Forums

thePh@r@oh · February 7th, 2003, 01:12 AM

tried it still wont work
it worked fine with win 98 does 2k have a problem with doing dual monitors in this fashion

PresterJohn · February 7th, 2003, 01:22 AM

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Originally posted by thePh@r@oh
tried it still wont work
it worked fine with win 98 does 2k have a problem with doing dual monitors in this fashion

w2k's dual monitor support is actually better than win98's.

i've gotten it to work with 2 cards a number of times. you do need to fiddle with resource contention in some cases, particularly with the older cards or with systems with a lot of peripherals.

the biggest nightware i had was doing it for a friend's machine w/xp running an old isa sound card, nic, 2 video cards, on-board usb, modem, and scsi interface for a crappy umax scanner.

ughhh.

rcwabbits · February 7th, 2003, 01:55 AM

I had a similar problem with XP. I had to set the PCI as the primary card in the bios. Evrerything worked great after that.

Its worth a shot I spose.

Good luck!

PresterJohn · February 7th, 2003, 02:05 AM

oh, i forgot to mention that he also had 2 serial ports on that critter. i had to get at least 1 port working because he had a palm pilot he wanted to connect. i think i wound up having to share the second serial between the modem and the output.

i was pretty amazed that it all worked in the end. i spent several hours pulling & inserting cards of various slots to find the right order to install everything.

Peter M · February 7th, 2003, 07:57 AM

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Originally posted by MDS
check to make sure you don't have IRQ sharing conflict's

Skip that. IRQ sharing is not a problem.

What you need to try is newer drivers for the ATi card than those included with W2K. If all else fails, running the ATI card as primary (choose in BIOS) might cure it - because the older PCI card then owns the "VGA compatible" attribute which its drivers might rely on having.

thePh@r@oh · February 7th, 2003, 02:09 PM

tried doing that still didnt work tried different drivers and wont work this isnt making sense at all. I may end up having to set up a win98 partition.

willhunter · February 7th, 2003, 05:46 PM

Are both of these cards PCI?

willhunter · February 7th, 2003, 05:48 PM

There are many ways to get windows 2000 to 'see' both cards. The first thing I need to know is if they are both pci. If one of the cards is on board it makes it a bit more difficult to enable both.

thePh@r@oh · February 7th, 2003, 11:54 PM

one is PCI one is AGP neither are onboard graphics