Can you run both PCI-X & PCI-E video cards simultaneously?

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musiorski

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I have a dell precision 690. Dual pci-e slots. I have four 19"s and a 30". I have two GeForce 7600 GT OC's in the pci-e's, and am trying to rig up a quad pci card in one of the two pci-x slots i have left to work with. I tried two quads so far...one matrox g450, and one appian phoenix radeon 9000. they install somewhat ok, but when you go to active the monitors all hell breaks loose. all the drivers unload for either the PCI-x or the PCI-e, depending on what you made the primary in the BIOS. then you get these "the version of these drivers were made for another version of windows, etc..." four times.

My problem is I have to use the 7600 with the dual-dvi link port to pump the 30" and it's express. so you have to have the identical card in the other express slot for it to work.

any ideas? I was thinking two Matrox QID pci-e cards to total 8 ports...but i'm not sure of the max res the QID can pump into the 30".
 
You should be able to... I mean it shouldn't be any different than say using an AGP and PCI slot in a computer... Though why do you need so many monitors :P
 
I could see how having all the same brand cards might help, but you should probably stay around the same era cards as well. I tried to run two PCI cards on an older computer(Windows 98) and the built in drivers wouldn't allow it for some reason. The cards were identical too, it was just some driver conflict or something. However, I have also run two totally different cards(ATI Radeon 8500 AGP and Nvidia GeForce MX440 PCI)
 
Iv ran a PCI and AGP card at the same time and it worked just fine. They wont run like SLi but you should be able to use multiple monitors with them.
 
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