Hello,
Here is the link with information about this situation:
MultiMonitor Support and Windows Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/multimonVista.mspx
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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|>I have the same issue, The Cards I am using are the ATI x600 PICe and an
ATI
|>FireMV PCI, it appears that the both cards work independantly (with the
|>correct driver installed), but when you try and enable both cards
together
|>you get the very helpful "Windows has stopped this device because it has
|>reported problems. (Code 43)" with no additional information, It does not
|>matter which card is first, (i.e disabling one then the other) Is there a
way
|>to get this to work? I hate the thought of going backwards, even thought
in
|>this case going backwards is definitly going forward!
|>
|>"Steve Childs" wrote:
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|>> I've since found out what it was. Vista only allows one Vista Mode
Device
|>> driver to load at once, so the driver needs to support both cards.
Needless
|>> to say, they need at the least to be from the same manufacturer. I
ended up
|>> buying a new GF 7600 card to go with the 5200 and it then worked fine.
|>> However, you do have the problem that the 5200 is the highest spec PCI
card
|>> you can find (or at least I could) and performance sucks with the Aero
skin
|>> on.
|>>
|>> In the end I uninstalled Vista, reinstalled XP and put my X800 back in
with
|>> my 9250 and they're both working fine.
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