Re: multiple monitors in XP SP2, onboard AGP has 'blown out', is a newer AGP dualhead in an oldie PC 'doable'?
- From: "Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" <mikehall@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:46:39 -0500
Either remove the on board CMOS battery or locate the jumper pins that reset
BIOS.. hopefully, this should reset the default memory allocation for your
on board video..
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Mike Hall
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
"dave" <tool_box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:G1K6h.3196$PI1.2954@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
dave wrote:
update:additional update: it now appears I've "blown out" the onboard video of
hoping to clarify, I've also posted a "device manager view" of my IRQ's
as assigned, like they are now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/hardwares/vaio_device_man.jpg
as stated earlier, my actual "physical real" slots, from the top down,
are
AGP, with the rage pro turbo card in it
PCI, with the adaptec SCSI card in it
PCI, nothing in it, and
PCI slot@bottom, with unused modem in it
thanks again for all tips and clues, toolie needs one (possibly more than
one ;-)
the vaio - I'm getting numerous "out of scan range" dialogs (even after
reboots and other gyrations), and the LCD monitor not lighting up,
meanwhile it's impossible to access any settings IN ORDER TO "change" a
scan range ). there's no useable desktop, no useable video, won't boot
with an emerg CD -with- any useable video of -any- sort "ildly out of
focus and weird" or NOT. so I've replaced onboard video with rage pro
turbo AGP singlehead. working OK for now. but re dualheads, generally:
what ARE the implications if I install, say, an AGP 8X dualhead card in my
'oldie' (assumed to be agp version 1, since sony makes no mention in the
specs of it being anything OVER that) AGP slot? the 'newer version of AGP'
card will still work? if it will work, what'll I be giving up (other than
'excessive monies poured into capabilities I can't utilize')?
instead of a radeon 9000, since my machine's such an "AGP antique"
wouldn't like a radeon 7000 be more or less "the same" visually?
or what am I overlooking?
toolie the dontwannabe video card experimenter
ps - thanks much for your earlier radeon 9000/ebay suggestion - looking
there now, and see a huge assortment of older dualheads...(hence the quest
of the moment :-)
ps-I've a sony vaio pcv-rx30, 1 gb ram, XPhome SP2, if it matters...
.
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