Dual video cards

[Brian]

I have used two G-Force 32 meg cards for some time (One
AGP and one PCI) but always the primary ie first to
display was the PCI one. Not a problem really until now
that I have u'graded the AGP to a G-Force 4 128mb card.
All sorts of crazy conflicts occur and there is no way I
can achieve the display config I want (Two monitors for
programs and a TV screen for viewing edited footage when
editing video) MB is a Biostar P4TDK with a P4 1.7 Gb
processor.
Have checked board bios but can't see any thing related.
Any ideas, thanks.

 

[Sean Davis]

In the bios you should find a setting that says "init
display first" under integrated peripherals. by default
this setting is pci so that if there is a problem you can
revert to an older failsafe card (esp. after clearing the
bios). Normally this is not a problem as there is
normally just one or the other in there. However if there
is a pci card in as well as an AGP card it will
initialized the PCI card first, making it the primary.
When windows gets everything handed to it from the BIOS it
will maintain the primary status of the PCI card. Once
you change that setting it should be fine.

Sean Davis