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Dual video card help
ChadTower:
Okay, I feel kind of foolish here, but I don't have a ton of time to figure this out. This is the situation:
I've got a Dell Optiplex (2.8mhz, 640meg) here running XP Pro. I had one ATI card in it, working fine. I installed a second, older ATI card to use a second monitor, but the second card is having problems. Device manager gives it the yellow flag, code 10 device can't start. I installed the proper drivers for it in XP, not sure where else to go with this and it has to be working fairly quickly.
Anyone have any ideas, assuming the card is good?
ChadTower:
Update: I seem to have gotten the machine to think the card is started properly... but still, nothing on the second monitor. Looks like both devices are working but it's not in a dual display mode... anyone know how to kick that in?
SkateDetroit:
I was going to ask if you're using 2 pci cards, or an AGP and pci card?
Right click your desktop, click properties, settings, advanced. Look for something about twinview or dual monitors. You will probably have to enable the second monitor. ATI is the best with dual screens, so it should be fairly painless to set up.
DaveMMR:
I know with my ATI All-in-Wonder, it wants nothing less than to be the Primary Display. So make sure that's the case (check the bios). Of course, I don't know which ATI card you have, so that advise may not apply to you.
Also, is your secondary display activated in the display properties (that's probably not the case, but can't hurt to check).
ChadTower:
There is no secondary display in display properties.
The cards are both ATI:
mach64 CT PCI
Rage XL PCI
I just tried disabling the display device that is working and reboot, just to see if it would swap to the other device. Didn't work, it was just using a crippled version of the disabled device.