Multiple Diplay card query

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From: CJ (rcj_at_no_spam.dircon.co.uk)
Date: 03/20/04

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    Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:19:18 -0000

    I'm currently running XP on an 3000XP with 3 NVIDIA cards, 1 x AGP FX5900 &
    2 x PCI TNT64, for a total of 3 displays. This works fine, with no problems
    accepts that some game require me to boot into a 'games' setup, which only
    has the AGP card enabled.

    I'm trying to upgrade to 6 displays and it's proving a complete mare.

    First attempt was to buy a Matrox 4PCI head MMS card. Setting this up
    proved to be impossible without disabling the FX5900. The Matrox tech
    support forum guys were quite helpful, but what it comes down to is that
    Matrox don't test with any other cards, gettign NVIDIA & Matrox cards
    working together is as near as damn it impossible, and even if you do (very
    few people seem to), an driver update from NVIDIA can bugger everything up.

    Next plan is to try 2 of the NVIDIA PCI dual head cards alongside the FX5900
    and one of the TNT64s. On the plus side they're all NVIDIA cards, on the
    minus side only the FX5900 & TNT use the same driver. There is a completely
    separate driver for the dual head cards.

    Does anyone have experience of setting up multiple displays like this that
    they can share please.

    Thanks,

    CJ
    ignore_this.rcj@dircon.co.uk

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