M
Mike
Alright, here's a post that's gonna make you videophiles
shake your heads in shame. Here's the deal. I actually do
have a fairly decent AGP video card, but I want to hook
up a second monitor for programming and other tasks that
take up a lot of real estate. However, being a poor
college student, my wish is to do it with the second
video card I already have.
I would like to use my ATI mach64 as a secondary video
card. However, once it's auto-installed, the device
manager shows it as malfunctioning, and the explanation
inside the properties is that the device can't find the
resources it needs. I'm assuming it's talking about the
IRQ; being an older card it probably wouldn't have the
same flexibility with its resource settings as some newer
devices. Correct me if I'm wrong there. In any case, I
freed up some IRQ's, reinstalled it and
Voila! ...nothing. Still can't find the resources it
needs, despite the fact that I have IRQ's 2-4 free. Being
a bit rusty on my resource management, I even freed up a
DMA just in case that made a difference. It didn't.
Now, here's the kicker. Having a pretty good motherboard,
I happen to have a setting in the BIOS that allows the
PCI board to be the default on startup. So I switch it
around. Works great, except the PCI card comes up as the
primary display device, and the decent AGP card I have
comes up all funky, as it is the secondary device. So I
peek into the system resources to see what IRQ settings
are taken up... and the PCI card still isn't assigned any
IRQ's. And the device manager shows it as malfunctioning
still, that it has not yet been started. Of course, I'm
reading all this through that card, which is interesting.
I almost long for the 98 days, when you still had some
modicum of control over the destiny of your IRQ's...
Alas. Maybe I'll start learning Linux.
In any case, can anybody tell me how to get this old
piece of crap working in XP? The drivers for it come
native in XP, and the ATI site says those are the best to
use. So it's not likely a driver problem. Maybe the card
is limited to certain IRQ's, none of which are currently
free? A question for an old school guru, I guess.
shake your heads in shame. Here's the deal. I actually do
have a fairly decent AGP video card, but I want to hook
up a second monitor for programming and other tasks that
take up a lot of real estate. However, being a poor
college student, my wish is to do it with the second
video card I already have.
I would like to use my ATI mach64 as a secondary video
card. However, once it's auto-installed, the device
manager shows it as malfunctioning, and the explanation
inside the properties is that the device can't find the
resources it needs. I'm assuming it's talking about the
IRQ; being an older card it probably wouldn't have the
same flexibility with its resource settings as some newer
devices. Correct me if I'm wrong there. In any case, I
freed up some IRQ's, reinstalled it and
Voila! ...nothing. Still can't find the resources it
needs, despite the fact that I have IRQ's 2-4 free. Being
a bit rusty on my resource management, I even freed up a
DMA just in case that made a difference. It didn't.
Now, here's the kicker. Having a pretty good motherboard,
I happen to have a setting in the BIOS that allows the
PCI board to be the default on startup. So I switch it
around. Works great, except the PCI card comes up as the
primary display device, and the decent AGP card I have
comes up all funky, as it is the secondary device. So I
peek into the system resources to see what IRQ settings
are taken up... and the PCI card still isn't assigned any
IRQ's. And the device manager shows it as malfunctioning
still, that it has not yet been started. Of course, I'm
reading all this through that card, which is interesting.
I almost long for the 98 days, when you still had some
modicum of control over the destiny of your IRQ's...
Alas. Maybe I'll start learning Linux.
In any case, can anybody tell me how to get this old
piece of crap working in XP? The drivers for it come
native in XP, and the ATI site says those are the best to
use. So it's not likely a driver problem. Maybe the card
is limited to certain IRQ's, none of which are currently
free? A question for an old school guru, I guess.