Re: HELP! Trying to Run 4 monitors off TWO GPU's in XP 64

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AionRyrilla wrote:

"Paul" wrote:

AionRyrilla wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188025
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130370

Is the Motherboard and Current GPU.

What I am gathering is that you need TWO different manufactures. So an ATI card and an NVIDIA meaning two different drivers.

So my question is, does using an ATI card and installing the drivers make it available to use two monitors on it and my Nvidia card already installed? Which runs two monitors already.

If so, should I install the hardware first, then the driver? Or install hardware then driver as normal?

I tried using two nvidia cards but it locked my keyboard up and wanted to run SLI. (sli only allows 2 monitors total is what I hear)

Any help would be AWESOME!!!

Thanks in advance.
The people in the gallery here, seem to be able to use two cards of the
same brand and model number.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery_browse.asp?ID=965&date=desc&nummon=false&mon=desc

There is an example here, of two identical Nvidia video cards and four monitors.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery_browse.asp?ID=938&date=desc&nummon=false&mon=desc

There should be a tick box somewhere, to control SLI in the Nvidia control panel.

Paul

I heard you could run SLI on TWO cards. but only able to run TWO total monitors. I'm trying to run 4

I've done a four monitor test, but the cards used don't apply to your case.
I've successfully used a FX5200 AGP and FX5200 PCI, to run four monitors.
There is no SLI option there, and no lockup either. There are no recent
drivers for that hardware, so I wasn't able to use the "new" Nvidia
control panel to set up the cards. I could only use the "old" or "classic"
control panel for my setup.

The Nvidia "manual" available, doesn't walk through the individual screens,
so I cannot even point you to a potential solution. The manual breaks
things down into "tasks", such as "Multi-Display Configuration". For example,
I cannot tell you if this tick box is present in that task.

http://img.hexus.net/v2/graphics_cards/nvidia/g71gx2/images/multi-display-mode.png

You'd want to use "multi display mode", if that is offered.

Paul


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