A new problem/dual monitor

[Marshall]

I was trying to set up a dual monitor tonight. I have an agp and pci
card. Agp is primary and the pci was placed two slots down. I booted and
went to the desktop/properties and set up the dual monitor. No conflicts
etc noted. When I attempted to move objects to the secondary the
graphics were real messed up. You knew you had a window on the monitor
but not which window. Tried another monitor same problem. I believe my
pci card is good but doubt it was made after 98 came out. It is a ATI.

I got mad at the time sponge and pulled the card when I started to get
disk errors on boot. Not worth it, been there done that.

Any idea what is going on? I probably will go buy a dual monitor card
and be done with it. What do you think?

Oh yea it acted the same way if you booted to 98 or 2k.

 

[Bob I]

Most likely is the card cant match the primary cards settings, or is dying.

 

[Marshall]

Hey Bob, thanks for the response. Follow up--- I got another dual
monitor card. Set it in and fired it up. Man did it look great. That is
untill I hooked up the second monitor and then it crapped on me. I just
wanted to puke. Went back to origional set up with one monitor, took the
card back and sit looking at one monitor. Oh well, thats windows for ya!

 

[Bob I]

Sorry it didn't pan out(pun intended). Since the same problem crops up
in Win98 AND Win2000, the underlying cause resolves to a hardware issue
of some sort. I presume you did do a compatability check on the cards? A
quick path to that can be found in Windows 2000 Help under Multiple
Monitors.