Dual monitors using (unsupported?) GFX card
From: Adrian Wood (adrianwood3_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:06:50 -0800
Hello all,
I've recently had a lot of hardware donated to me,
including an old Monitor and an SiS6215 Graphics card. It
occured to me that setting up a dual monitor system would
be pretty nifty, so I set to work.
I managed to find a supposedly Win2K compatible driver for
the SiS, but no-one seems to have told the *card* that,
because the driver's refuse to load. (Error code 31.) I'm
sure the card works OK, because it displays a pre-BIOS
splash screen (which is how I found out it was the 6215
model.)
I decided I would just simply install generic VGA drivers
for the card instead, but Win2K doesn't seem to have them
available. A check on the support site suggests that I
bring up the pre-OS boot menu, and choose 'enable VGA
mode', but I don't want a total VGA makeover on my
desktop... my main Geforce card is fine as it is,
thanks... I just want to use Generic VGA for the
(apparently) unsupported SiS card, while leaving my main
display as it is.
Any suggestions on this? is there a reason why my SiS
drivers don't work? Is there a generic VGA Win 2K driver
available I could use?
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