How does the ATI Radeon XPress 200 interact with installed graphicscards?

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ShadowTek

I have a ATI Radeon XPress 200 integrated chipset on my motherboard. I
also have a Radeon X700 PCIe card installed. I have read, and heard,
in several places that the integrated graphics will work in tandem, to
whatever extent, with any installed ATI graphics card. So, how,
exactly, do the two interact with each other?

In the Windows Hardware Manager, it lists two graphics devices: X700
and X700 secondary. The "secondary" is obviously the onboard graphics,
but what function does it serve?
 
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Augustus

ShadowTek said:
I have a ATI Radeon XPress 200 integrated chipset on my motherboard. I
also have a Radeon X700 PCIe card installed. I have read, and heard,
in several places that the integrated graphics will work in tandem, to
whatever extent, with any installed ATI graphics card. So, how,
exactly, do the two interact with each other?

In the Windows Hardware Manager, it lists two graphics devices: X700
and X700 secondary. The "secondary" is obviously the onboard graphics,
but what function does it serve?
Click to expand...

No, the secondary is the the second display which you don't have. The Xpress
200 IGP utilizes an integrated X300 series graphics core which along with
your X700 can drive 3 monitors. There's more to it than this, but they can't
run in X-Fire mode. What you're seeing is your single Radeon X700 PCI-ecard
in the hardware list.
Some reading assignments for you may clarify....
 
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ShadowTek

OK, thanks.

On a side note, I once ran an analog TV as a secondary display from
the S-Video output, on the back of my X700, which ran out to an inline
S-Video to RCA adapter. The TV did display basic images, but any video
that I tried to run was show as an empty black area. I thought that it
might have something to do with the interaction between the X700 and
onboard graphics, but I guess not.

Any idea how to get video to display on the secondary TV?
 

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