Two Display in W2000?

[W. Watson]

I thought I'd try to use two displays in W2k. One with a PCI card, and the other with
an AGP card. Both monitors did come up, but it looks like the PCI card lags behind.
In fact, it's stuck at the opening w2k screen. The AGP monitor reflects the current
state. Anyone know if this is fixable?

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[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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I thought I'd try to use two displays in W2k. One with a PCI card,
and the other with an AGP card. Both monitors did come up, but it
looks like the PCI card lags behind. In fact, it's stuck at the
opening w2k screen. The AGP monitor reflects the current state.
Anyone know if this is fixable?

Both cards have to have drivers that are compatible with this feature.

I played around with it on my PC at work and got it to work well.

But it took some time to find a card that would work with the onboard
Dell/Intel one

 

[W. Watson]

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Both cards have to have drivers that are compatible with this feature.

I played around with it on my PC at work and got it to work well.

But it took some time to find a card that would work with the onboard
Dell/Intel one

Thanks. I just recalled that it takes something like a recent version of ActiveX, or
is DirectX, to get this to operate? If not that, then drivers, as you suggested. Now
to determine which PCI graphics card I really have. I'm borrowing it. I know it's a
Diamond.

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[W. Watson]

Thanks. I just recalled that it takes something like a recent version of
ActiveX, or is DirectX, to get this to operate? If not that, then
drivers, as you suggested. Now to determine which PCI graphics card I
really have. I'm borrowing it. I know it's a Diamond.

Well, it's a Diamond 3D 2000 Pro. I wasn't able to find a driver for it on the
Diamond web site. I did update DirectX but that didn't help.

It may be that something is fundamentally wrong. When I have both cards in, then
during start up, I get an audible long beep followed by 2-3 shorter beeps. There's
nearly a five minute wait before anything appears on the AGP monitor. Prior to the
DirectX update, I would get some early w2000 screen frozen on the PCI monitor, but
now nothing. I get no audible beeps like above when only the AGP or PCI card is used.
There must be some conflict between the two cards.

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[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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Well, it's a Diamond 3D 2000 Pro. I wasn't able to find a driver for
it on the Diamond web site. I did update DirectX but that didn't help.

It may be that something is fundamentally wrong. When I have both
cards in, then during start up, I get an audible long beep followed
by 2-3 shorter beeps. There's nearly a five minute wait before
anything appears on the AGP monitor. Prior to the DirectX update, I
would get some early w2000 screen frozen on the PCI monitor, but now
nothing. I get no audible beeps like above when only the AGP or PCI
card is used. There must be some conflict between the two cards.

Thats the sort of issue I meant about both cards having to be compatible
with one another and with the dual desktop feature

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;238886&Product=win2000

Hope that helps

 

[Bob I]

The beeps indicate the BIOS is not happy with the configuration. The
"beep" sequence can be checked against the "error" listing for your
particular BIOS manufacturer at their web site or one of the "BIOS"
related sites that post "BIOS beep codes"

 

[Guest]

The cards and drivers need to support this, if a card has less than about 8
(or maybe 4) MB of memory, it probably doesn't.

Also, in the BIOS, set the PCI card to be the primary/first one, not the AGP
card. This does not seem to be necessary for WinXP, but usually is for Win2k.
You can then set the AGP to be the primary display in the Win2k display
properties, if you wish - it will switch from the PCI to the AGP screen when
the driver loads up. This controls which screen things come up on by default
(like the taskbar). In the same place, you can drag the screens around to
reflect which one is on the right/left, etc.

Your symptoms sound like you have it mostly set up correctly. You probably
just have to go into the display properties, and tell it to "extend my windows
desktop onto this monitor".

Usually, you will see your bootup stuff on either both screens, or on the
primary (as set in the BIOS) display. Then, when the windows driver loads, it
should extend the display to cover both screens (but only if you have told it
to do this in your display settings). In your case, it appears that it is
switching to using the AGP screen, and leaving the PCI screen showing the last
thing that the VGA driver was displaying before the Windows driver loaded.

|I thought I'd try to use two displays in W2k. One with a PCI card, and the
| other with
|an AGP card. Both monitors did come up, but it looks like the PCI card lags
| behind.
|In fact, it's stuck at the opening w2k screen. The AGP monitor reflects the
| current
|state. Anyone know if this is fixable?
|

 

[Andy]

Try setting your BIOS to intialize the PCI video card first.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimo...x&Use=Secondary&System=&SearchType=SearchCard

 

[W. Watson]

It appears that this is really a rather trivial matter. I discovered that there are
svga splitter cables that duplicate images. I hope to buy one for about $8.00
later in the week.

Try setting your BIOS to intialize the PCI video card first.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimo...x&Use=Secondary&System=&SearchType=SearchCard

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[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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It appears that this is really a rather trivial matter. I discovered
that there are
svga splitter cables that duplicate images. I hope to buy one for
about $8.00 later in the week.

All that achieves is two identical images, two displays in 2000 extend
the desktop area not merely duplicate it.