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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Hardware / May 2008Second Video Card Not Detected
My first video card is a GeForce 7600 GT with two DVI hookups. I have two dell monitors plugged into it and it works great--I've got myself a super-wide desktop. I recently bought two new dell monitors with another GeForce 7600 GT; however, this second card is different than the first one--it has 512MB memory instead of 256MB memory (which is what my first card has) and instead of having two DVI hookups it has one DVI and one VGA hookup. None of this is of any concern to me though, I have plenty of VGA and DVI cables. My problem is Windows doesn't recognize the new video card at all. It doesn't see the video card or the third and fourth monitors. I have Windows XP SP2. Is there a BIOS option that may control selection of more than one vidoe card? > My first video card is a GeForce 7600 GT with two DVI hookups. I have two > dell monitors plugged into it and it works great--I've got myself a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > I have Windows XP SP2. > Is there a BIOS option that may control selection of more than one vidoe > card? Well I tried going into bios and enabling "NV IDE/SATA RAID function", which then ungrayed out the following items: IDE Primary Master RAID IDE Primary Slave RAID IDE Secndry Master RAID IDE Secndry Slave RAID; I enabled all of them then exited bios and said yes to save. Now when I try to boot up it asks me to press F10 to enter RAID setup utility. When I press F10 it says manufacturer: NVIDIA, but when I press enter to show details it gives me the details of my Western Digital Hard Drivel. So I escape out of there saying 'no' to 'Clear Disk?' and now everytime I try to boot my computer I get the following error: NTLDR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart -- I even went back and undid everything I changed in the BIOS but no matter what settings I put I get the same NTLDR error--the computer won't boot up at all now. > the computer won't boot up at all now. If I go to boot settings and select my Western Digital Hard Drive as the boot mode then I can get it to boot up. Otherwise it gives me the NTLDR error. Go inter the bios a reset to defaults >> the computer won't boot up at all now. > > If I go to boot settings and select my Western Digital Hard Drive as the > boot mode then I can get it to boot up. Otherwise it gives me the NTLDR > error. What possible connecton do you think there is between multiple video cards and setting up harddrives in a RAID configuration? Go back into the BIOS and stop all the RAID stuff and look for video options. >> Is there a BIOS option that may control selection of more than one vidoe >> card? [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > at > all now. Your motherboard is based on a nVidia chipset. Are these video cards based on the PCI-Express "slots?" If yes, please check with your motherboard manual and check for the SLI control settings. nVidia based motherboards have the possibility of combining two (or four) video cards with nVidia's SLI features. >> Is there a BIOS option that may control selection of more than one vidoe >> card? [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >NTLDR is missing >Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart |
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