Multi Monitor Problem

[monkeybone_11]

Well i have connect two monitors up with a Geforce FX 5500 and a 3D
Rage II + PCI card.
I wanted to make it balanced out so i brought another monitor up and
hooked it all up.
I installed a third Card into a pci slot.
It is a 3D Rage IIC PCI card.
Yet it will not start the monitor and says in device manager that "it
cannot start"
which i have had that problem before installing the second one.
So i went to bios before and changed the prim. Video card.
So i went back to bios and changed it back to agp but still nothing..
Other then my second monitor not working.
The monitor works fine because i connected it to the agp card.

I am running windows XP
with..
-Jabil BX Motherboard R2
-HDD=80G
-Bios Updated to final release
--Phioneix Bios
-PII 400mhz cpu
-320MB SDRAM


cybervision c50=prim. monitor
trinitron= sec. monitor
gateway EV700 =third monitor

I've been searching for an awnser for almost 2 months now any help
other then saying i need to buy _____ is much appriciated

 

[Gary Chanson]

Well i have connect two monitors up with a Geforce FX 5500 and a 3D
Rage II + PCI card.
I wanted to make it balanced out so i brought another monitor up and
hooked it all up.
I installed a third Card into a pci slot.
It is a 3D Rage IIC PCI card.
Yet it will not start the monitor and says in device manager that "it
cannot start"
which i have had that problem before installing the second one.
So i went to bios before and changed the prim. Video card.
So i went back to bios and changed it back to agp but still nothing..
Other then my second monitor not working.
The monitor works fine because i connected it to the agp card.

I am running windows XP
with..
-Jabil BX Motherboard R2
-HDD=80G
-Bios Updated to final release
--Phioneix Bios
-PII 400mhz cpu
-320MB SDRAM


cybervision c50=prim. monitor
trinitron= sec. monitor
gateway EV700 =third monitor

I've been searching for an awnser for almost 2 months now any help
other then saying i need to buy _____ is much appriciated

The motherboard or the BIOS might not support two video boards.

There might be a resource conflict between the slot the PCI video board is
in and another slot.

Can you get the PCI video board to work by itself?

 

[DL]

Many people have problems getting only two vid cards to coexist, what will
work for one wont inexplicably work for another, but you want to run three.
You don't want to hear it, after 2 months, but buy hw specifically designed
for a multi (3) monitor setup.

 

[DL]

'Abolish Public Schools'
Where would we get a stiff upper lip ?

news:[email protected]...

 

[paulmd]

Well i have connect two monitors up with a Geforce FX 5500 and a 3D
Rage II + PCI card.

I happen to know that the old Rage 2C card does not like to play nice
with multiple monitors. If you want something from the same era, go
with Matrox, they actually work in multiples. Suggest buying a new PCI
card to make the array.

I've personally tried the Rage 2c, and it just won't work like that.
Neither do old s3 virge, nor trident tgui. They don't play. The old
Matrox MGA will, but almost nothing else in that generation does.

 

[Gary Chanson]

'Abolish Public Schools'
Where would we get a stiff upper lip ?

American public schools don't award stiff upper lips.

 

[DL]

Loose flabby ones?
Gosh where will our politicians graduate from?

 

[monkeybone_11]

the pci card does work by itself
wats a resource problem?

 

[Gary Chanson]

Loose flabby ones?
Gosh where will our politicians graduate from?

You must be British. What the British call "public schools" is what we
call "private schools". It's only the American public schools I'm referring
to.

 

[Gary Chanson]

Typically bus mastering control lines and the like.

From other responses, it sounds like you're simply not going to get those
cards to work together.

--

- Gary Chanson (Windows SDK MVP)
- Abolish Public Schools

the pci card does work by itself
wats a resource problem?

 

[paulmd]

the pci card does work by itself

Yup, they always do. Most PCI cards pre windows 2000 did not know, nor
care about mulitple monitors. So they assume that they are the only
video card in the machine.

The only way to solve this is to replace that old Rage IIC with
something manufactured after 2000. Or a use a Matrox, But the old rage
has GOT to go.

wats a resource problem?

Two devices want the same thing, and only one can have it.