Installing Secondary Graphics Card

sniperchang

sniperchang

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Hey guys, I have a tough one for you ;)


I have a question/problem regarding installing a secondary Graphics card. I
have a NVIDIA graphics card (PCI-E) and I installed a ATI Graphics card
(PCI). Long story short I'm having trouble properly installing the drivers
for the PCI Card.

My Current BIOS setting is set to boot on my PCI-E NVIDIA Card, for I wish
to set the PCI ATI card as the secondary graphics card. However the drivers
ATI provided doesn't install (There's a INF error popping-up). So I tried to
manually install just the drivers with the device manager. Now it appears
that each time I boot-up, if I go to display settings, the ATI card shows up
fine, but if I go back to display settings a second time, I receive a error
massage saying "The currently selected graphics display driver can not be
used. It was written for a previous version of windows...". If I reboot same
thing happens, seems fine the first, but the error comes up on the second
time I go to display settings.

I have already contacted the ATI technical support, but they would not help
me resolve this issue. I believe this issue can be resolved because it is an
intermittent problem in windows (And it is not unheard of; using a PCI card
as a secondary graphics card).

If you have any information or solutions, I would be grateful.

Thank you

PS: After I click ok for the error message, in the display settings my
NVIDIA card shows up fine, but when I select the ATI card it has a resolution
of -1 x -1, no Color quality settings, and there's missing a few things in
the advance menu as well. This seems like a clear sign that the driver is the
issue here.
 
newn said:
actually i think better to install two same cards and use sli or crossfire or install one card what you chosen to use.
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I'm setting up a triple display system.

SLI doesn't support multi-display. It is programmed to optimize two graphics card to run on one monitor. Probably the same for crossfire. That might work, however, if the cards are running independently.

Sounds like fun, if I had a SLI motherboard(Or I should say a board with two or more PCE-E Slots) , and lots of money to spare for another 7950GT, and if I hadn't already gotten the PCI Radeon. But that's not the case :(
 
That prob your having with the drivers......i get that sometimes. There is a BIOS thingy (lock/protect/something or other) which makes the graphics card override the stock settings. I presume its just a glitch with conflicting settings where the rare occasion my multi displays arent loading. I posted in another of these threads here that ccleaner will remove this setting (either the registry or the cleaner option) so be careful when using ccleaner once you get things going how you want.

In ccleaner i only ticked the following:

Internet explorer ALL
Windows explorer All EXCEPT other explorer MRU's
System ONLY empty recycle bin, temporary files, Clipboard

and not a problem since.....FINGERS CROSSED
 
Thanks for the input.

But it's still bugs me that weird behavior with the display settings...

Anybody knows about this? Something with windows? BIOS Settings? I'm clean out of ideas.
 
I got UltraMon last night, its great, now I can get multi desktop images and the span mode working. Havent tried on a game or movie yet. But its definitly working and compatible.
 
pip1011261 said:
I got UltraMon last night, its great, now I can get multi desktop images and the span mode working. Havent tried on a game or movie yet. But its definitly working and compatible.
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Great to hear. But that's off topic in this thead. However I wish to tell you that spanning a video will likely not work because of overlays issues. Games should work though.
 
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