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Old April 21st, 2003, 12:33 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Dual display help needed.

Ok I found that a gfx card I thought was bad was actualy good (I was unable to properly test to see if it was dead untill now)


Any ways so I put in two gfx cards and two monitors for a duel display setup but when I do it wants to use the PCI gfx card as the main gfx card and it runs at low resolutions so I have a 17 in monitor on it.

The main problem is the second monitor (a very nice monitor) is using the AGP gfx card has a very low quality display. Yet it has the beter gfx card and monitor.

Fonts become unreadable. So I messed with dif colors, resoloutions, and refresh rates and it wont get any better.

When I take a screen shot it looks fine on the first monitor though.


Any ideas? How do I make so it uses the AGP card and monitor from boot to OS?

Win98se Soon to be 2k pro.



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Old April 21st, 2003, 12:35 AM     #2 (permalink)
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not sure but try looking in the bios, there is usually an option there to set the default for gfx adapter to pci or agp.

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there is usaully a setting in the BIOS for this

Doh! I got beat to the punch.
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Old April 21st, 2003, 12:55 AM     #4 (permalink)
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OK I will take a look thanks.


That still doesnt solve the problem of the other display being all messed up though.



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