Multiple Diplay card query

[CJ]

I'm currently running XP on an 3000XP with 3 NVIDIA cards, 1 x AGP FX5900 &
2 x PCI TNT64, for a total of 3 displays. This works fine, with no problems
accepts that some game require me to boot into a 'games' setup, which only
has the AGP card enabled.

I'm trying to upgrade to 6 displays and it's proving a complete mare.

First attempt was to buy a Matrox 4PCI head MMS card. Setting this up
proved to be impossible without disabling the FX5900. The Matrox tech
support forum guys were quite helpful, but what it comes down to is that
Matrox don't test with any other cards, gettign NVIDIA & Matrox cards
working together is as near as damn it impossible, and even if you do (very
few people seem to), an driver update from NVIDIA can bugger everything up.

Next plan is to try 2 of the NVIDIA PCI dual head cards alongside the FX5900
and one of the TNT64s. On the plus side they're all NVIDIA cards, on the
minus side only the FX5900 & TNT use the same driver. There is a completely
separate driver for the dual head cards.

Does anyone have experience of setting up multiple displays like this that
they can share please.

Thanks,

CJ
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[Microsoft Video Driver OCA Triage]

Does your 5900 have dual view support? Most of them do but there are a few
that don't; this would be a way to keep the number of video adapters down to
two or three.

PNY makes a quad head Nvidia card called 'Quadro4 NVS400'. They are more
expensive than two Dual Head PCI Geforce4 MX's though but saves you a PCI
slot. The same Nvidia driver is used on all their cards since the original
TNT dual/quad/single view alike. It has been awhile since I setup 5+
monitors but at one point I had a Geforce4 Ti4600 dual head and a Quadro
NVS400 all going at the same time for 6 monitors testing.

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Thanks,
Lance Naugle
Microsoft Video Driver OCA Triage
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