Trouble with 2 video cards. Please help

[Brute]

I've installed a second video card, wanting to use multiple desktops, but I'm not getting very far. The motherboard, an MSI MS-6728, refuses to see the PCI card, an ATI Radeon 9250. The AGP video is a Radeon 9800.

I've tried the merely obvious... checked bios, moved it through all the different slots. No dice. Any suggestions?

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

i don't think you can do dua monitors with pci and agp. yet again i miight be wrong, but i don't know.doesn't a radeon 9800 have two ports for monitors?

 

[Brute]

The damn thing is pissing me off. It works and then it doesn't. Once in a blue moon it will boot and see the card, and I actually had it running. Then the system crashed due to a driver error and when it restarted, no dual monitor support. This is driving me nuts.

 

[ssdd1974]

No you cant do dual video cards. Your pc will use the 1 that is selected in your Device Manager under your Hardware profile. Dual desktops you say? Doesn't sound right, more like dual monitors running off 1 pc. In any case, like the last person said, you should have another port on the back of your 9800 that has and adapter that either came with the card to hook it up to another monitor, or go to a computer store and tell them what you are trying to do. If they are smart then they will know exactly what you need. If need be i will take a pic of what you need and email it to you....

 

[kurt454]

I have used dual nvidia cards for dual monitors, but each card only had a single vga out.

 

[Peter]

Of course multiple video cards CAN be done, no problem there, not in hardware, not in Windows's support of multiple graphics engines and screens.

 

[ddogg]

Originally posted by: kurt454
I have used dual nvidia cards for dual monitors, but each card only had a single vga out.

yup thats how it works....remove and insert each card seperately, it might be a problem with a card

 

[Brute]

I've done that ddogg. The computer will see the card if I remove it and put it back in, like finding new hardware. But then the desktop will crash and it doesn't see it again.

 

[Peter]

Remove all ATI drivers (use a driver cleaner), update your AGP drivers, then reinstall the latest.

 

[Brute]

Nope, didn't do a thing. Computer still is not seeing the PCI card.

 

[Peter]

Is it seeing the PCI card as in: Does the BIOS's PCI device summary show it? Do you have as many "Graphics device" units in Device Manager as you should have?)

 

[CrispyFried]

Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
i don't think you can do dua monitors with pci and agp. yet again i miight be wrong, but i don't know.doesn't a radeon 9800 have two ports for monitors?

Yes you can, I run an agp 9600 and pci 7200. But you dont really get two desktops, just one spread over 2 monitors.

 

[Brute]

Well, the computer won't see two cards, but I found the solution. I didn't even think these existed, but I found a DVI to SVGA adapter, so I connected both monitors to the Radeon 9800 Pro. Worked from the start. Go figure.

Thanks to all for help. Consider this problem settled, unless other folks want to discuss the issue in general.

 

[Nomada]

You took the better route but the thing with two cards is that you have to set BIOS to boot from PCI first. Then set the PCI as Primary in Windows. That was the only way I could get it to work in the same situation. May just have been your mobo though.

 

[Vegito]

yes you can.. i run nvidia agp and ati pci and now on dual nvidia nvs 280 agp/pci combo.. 2 port each = quad display.

some bios has initalize agp or pci first.. you might need to do one or another.. also try different pci slots.. some share with agp

 

[Brute]

Yep, tried that, too. Set it to PCI/AGP instead of AGP/PCI. No go. It's ok, though. I got my dual monitor.

 

[kobymu]

Try to move the PCI card to a different slot, i had this problem and it seem that the card did like that particular PCI slot.