Video Card problem

[Mark]

I am trying to add a 3rd video card to a Dell computer
with Windows 2000. The system currently has the Dell
installed Nvidia GForce MX and an ATI Radeon 7000 in it.
It has been running with no problems for about 4 months
now.

I am now trying to add another ATI Radeon 7000 to it and
am having a ton of problems. I currently have 4 other
machines running this configuration with no problems and
can not understand what the problem is with this one.

I added the 3rd card and booted it up, it prompted me for
the drivers and once they were loaded, I rebooted it.
Once it was rebooted, it hung on the "Starting Windows
2000" screen. To make a long story short, I can not get
the any combination of 2 cards to work in the machine
after a reboot now. If I reboot it after loading the
drivers, it freezes during boot.

I have tried the ATI driver supplied on the cd that came
with the card and the driver on the Windows update site.

Anyone have any suggestions, or maybe know what would be
causing the problem.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

Anyone have any suggestions, or maybe know what would be
causing the problem.

Sounds like IRQ conflicts.

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Best Wishes,
Wolf Kirchmeir, Blind River ON
"Not that brains are everything --
you'll also need a skull to put them in." (Nancy Franklin, 1997)
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[Mark]

What is the best way to fix that? Boot it in safe mode
and look at the settings?

Thanks.

 

[Rick]

Try a different PCI slot for the third card. You'll need to find out
what's shared in your system (e.g. on some boards, slot 4 shares
with an onboard RAID controller, so cards in that slot will have
problems, etc).

Rick

 

[Mark]

Just wanted to give an update. It ended up being the
drivers. I was using ATI's newest drivers for the Radeon
7000 and they would not work for some reason. I had an
older driver cd for the card, I used it and everything is
great now. Thanks to everyone for the replies.

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

Just wanted to give an update. It ended up being the
drivers. I was using ATI's newest drivers for the Radeon
7000 and they would not work for some reason.

AHA! -- Possibly the newest drivers are written for XP, wh/ has enough
differences from W2K to cause glitches.

Thanks for the info.


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Best Wishes,
Wolf Kirchmeir, Blind River ON
"Not that brains are everything --
you'll also need a skull to put them in." (Nancy Franklin, 1997)
<just one w and plain ca for correct address>