Re: Dual video cards -- 2nd won't work
From: John Blaustein (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 05/25/04
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:28:15 -0700
This message may be ignored. I got a response on the XP Hardware NG. For
anyone interested, see:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;307397
John
"John Blaustein" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
news:ekjTBjgQEHA.252@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I have an ASUS motherboard and have been using a Matrox G450 AGP dual head
> video card with two monitors. It works perfectly. I want to use a
monitor
> profiling device -- Colorvision's OptiCal with Spyder -- but until
recently,
> it would not work with dual monitors. Now, Colorvision has a beta version
> of the OptiCal software that will work with dual monitors, BUT it won't
work
> with a dual monitor video card. It needs two separate video cards to
work.
>
> OK... so I bought a second video card -- an inexpensive PCI card to run my
> second monitor. I disabled dual monitor support in the Matrox driver,
> installed the second video card, attached my second monitor to the new PCI
> card and restarted. Windows XP Home recognizes the second card and
installs
> the driver, but nothing happens -- the screen is blank. Checking Device
> Manger shows a yellow exclamation sign and Properties says the device will
> not start -- Code 10. The XP Troubleshooter suggest uninstalling the
device
> and reinstalling. I did that, but no luck.
>
> I installed the drivers for the new video card, and still no luck. The
new
> card is a "no-name" S3 Savage IX card. I see no reason it's not working.
I
> tried two different PCI slots and still no luck. I have made no BIOS
> changes and wouldn't know what to try there.
>
> Any suggestions will be much appreciated!
>
> Thank you.
>
> John
>
>
>
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