Dual Moniters - Anyone done it or has knowledge about it?

[AJ Quick]

Take the AGP one out, then the error will probably clear up so you can configure it. It probably just is a problem of it not being the Primary Display Adaptor.

[DanL]

I got the idea you can configure a card being the Primary one only when Windows recognizes there are two cards there.

Likewise, shouldn't this have not mattered when I put two PCI cards in and gotten the same results even when I swapped the PCI slots?

[Wetzel]

ohhh....

Does Windows 2k support monochrome monitors?
/me goes looking


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[rbayer]

How old is your mobo? My primary desktop has a very similar setup to yours:

Primary: GeForce256 DDR AGP
Secondary: Matrox G200

In your BIOS, you should have some option as to whether to use AGP or PCI as your primary video card. Try changing this and seeing what happens.

[Joe Ross]

Some video cards just don't have the ability to run as a secondary card. The Jaton (trident) card that I bought a month or two ago to do this, will not work as an secondary card.

Your best bet is to wait on hold 30 minutes with tech support, because that 30 minutes is less time then you will spend messing with it ;-)

[Matt VP]

I'm running dual monitors right now. Of course, I'm using the nView on my Geforce4 ti4200. Set it up in about 20 seconds.

You can't call that GF256 a quadro unless you can hook up more than one monitor to it.

[DanL]

Well, you see, therein lies the problem. Some of us don't have $300 uber-top-of-the-line cards with 2 digital outputs AND, as if that wasn't enough, a tv output too. Some of us are stuck with oldskewl equipment that requires we add in a second card to get a second monitor. Some of us don't have money to spend on a card that just got out of governement research labs - we 'upgrade' not through green pieces of paper, but through a soldering iron! But then again, some of us also wish they had some steady source of income so we COULD get all of the above-mentioned items.

[Matt VP]

We could build a quadro, just it would cost more than what a fully assembled quadro would

[Greg]

There is usually a setting in the BIOS setup that specifies which card is primary. Look in the BIOS. If it's not there, perhaps you should flash the BIOS with the latest version. Maybe an old BIOS is the root of the problem.