AGP primary does not work

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andy.wood@netzero.net - 30 Nov 2003 16:44 GMT

Hello....

Im having problems with multiple monitor support.

I have an nvidia geforce 4 ti 4200 (agp) set as my primary
video card. I also have an older all-in-wonder rage 128
(pci)card installed in the machine.

The bios is set to pick the Agp card as the primary.
In this setting the agp card shows video but the pci card
(monitor)never gets a signal at all . However the pci
video adapter does show up in device manager but it has an
exclamation point saying this exactly "Windows will
attempt to restart without checking your computer's
hardware" I can not find anything on this error message.
the drivers are the latest at ati and so are the nvidia
drivers.

If i go into the bios and pick the pci as the primary card
multiple monitors works fine.

What is going on here?

Do I need to tell you more info?

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Tom Scales - 30 Nov 2003 18:00 GMT

The older ATI boards were terrible in their multimonitor support. I wouldn't
be surprised if this was just a limitation of the ATI card. Also, if you
want to use the TV features, the board has to be primary anyway.

Why not just leave it that way.

Tom

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pjp - 30 Nov 2003 23:34 GMT

I'm running a Radeon 64 DDR VIVO (AGP) as primary and an ATI Xpert98 (pci)
as secondary on a Tyan S1854 motherboard. My BIOS is set to boot using the
AGP card.

I know that in order to get it all working properly I had to first install
and setup the Radeon with it being the only video card in the system. After
that was up and going correctly (including checking all the mm stuff) I
installed the Xpert BUT only the driver and NOT any of the other garbage it
wanted to do, it'd walk right over some of the primary cards "settings" if
allowed.

Once the driver was installed, when Windows next rebooted I could extend my
desktop etc.

Note : Using diff manufacturers video cards may create other problems than
what I had and eliminate some I overcame.

> The older ATI boards were terrible in their multimonitor support. I
> wouldn't be surprised if this was just a limitation of the ATI card.
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