shadedecho
Programmer
OK, i have a dual P3 system, which has been running a single ATI all-in-wonder radeon 8500DV AGP card just fine in it for over a year now. I run windows 2000 on it (its actually 2000 server, but most of the services are turned off, its more or less the same OS as 2000pro).
i recently acquired a new monitor, a 24" widescreen, and this ATI card was even able to boost up to support a magnificent 1920x1200 at 100mhz on the new monitor.. i love it.
now, i want to add back in my old 19" standard 4:3 monitor running at 1280x1024 75mhz and use both monitors in a dual-monitor setup (yeah yeah, i know, 3000 pixels wide desktop... who needs that? well i actually can use that much with what i do). UNFORTUNATELY, The 8500DV (with all its great features) doesn't support dual monitor.
So, I figured instead of trying to buy a super expensive card to replace my 8500DV, i'd just buy another cheaper ATI pci card and plug it in. SO i did so, i purchased an ATI radeon 7000 saphire PCI card.
i stuck that bad boy in, booted up (changed my bios btw to make the AGP slot the primary vga slot), and windows started to boot. i noticed that only the primary (agp connected) monitor was getting any signal, but figured this was expected. the system booted just fine the first time, came up to windows as normal, then said "new hardware was found and installed, need to reboot". so i did.
things then went horribly wrong. all of a sudden, during boot, when it went to the screen where the "preparing network connections" and the "login" would normally begin to appear, the screen went black but the mouse cursor was still there.... and the system just sat idle.
swapped the bios setting back to PCI as primary, rebooted, this time blue-screen-of-death. logged in to safe mode, installed an updated driver for the new PCI card... rebooted, this time, at that same point, NO video on either... after playing with settings, tried setting the "assign IRQ to VGA PCI" to "no" and on reboot, windows booted, but to a default VGA adapter driver with 640x480 and 16 color (much like safe mode), and in device manager it reported the two cards were in conflict, and that specifically the 8500dv card was now conflicting with the "System Timer, interupt 00 and 80".
again, more playing around with different options, still can't get the system to boot and show anything with both cards in, so, take out the pci card, boot to safe mode, uninstall both drivers, reinstall the 8500dv driver, and reboot, and all is back to normal.
so, i failed at getting the dual-monitor setup to work with an AGP and PCI card, both made by ATI.
can anyone help?
i recently acquired a new monitor, a 24" widescreen, and this ATI card was even able to boost up to support a magnificent 1920x1200 at 100mhz on the new monitor.. i love it.
now, i want to add back in my old 19" standard 4:3 monitor running at 1280x1024 75mhz and use both monitors in a dual-monitor setup (yeah yeah, i know, 3000 pixels wide desktop... who needs that? well i actually can use that much with what i do). UNFORTUNATELY, The 8500DV (with all its great features) doesn't support dual monitor.
So, I figured instead of trying to buy a super expensive card to replace my 8500DV, i'd just buy another cheaper ATI pci card and plug it in. SO i did so, i purchased an ATI radeon 7000 saphire PCI card.
i stuck that bad boy in, booted up (changed my bios btw to make the AGP slot the primary vga slot), and windows started to boot. i noticed that only the primary (agp connected) monitor was getting any signal, but figured this was expected. the system booted just fine the first time, came up to windows as normal, then said "new hardware was found and installed, need to reboot". so i did.
things then went horribly wrong. all of a sudden, during boot, when it went to the screen where the "preparing network connections" and the "login" would normally begin to appear, the screen went black but the mouse cursor was still there.... and the system just sat idle.
swapped the bios setting back to PCI as primary, rebooted, this time blue-screen-of-death. logged in to safe mode, installed an updated driver for the new PCI card... rebooted, this time, at that same point, NO video on either... after playing with settings, tried setting the "assign IRQ to VGA PCI" to "no" and on reboot, windows booted, but to a default VGA adapter driver with 640x480 and 16 color (much like safe mode), and in device manager it reported the two cards were in conflict, and that specifically the 8500dv card was now conflicting with the "System Timer, interupt 00 and 80".
again, more playing around with different options, still can't get the system to boot and show anything with both cards in, so, take out the pci card, boot to safe mode, uninstall both drivers, reinstall the 8500dv driver, and reboot, and all is back to normal.
so, i failed at getting the dual-monitor setup to work with an AGP and PCI card, both made by ATI.
can anyone help?