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RE: Multimon with two video cards in Vista Actually I have the same problem with 2 'supported' cards. Don't know that 2
cards work at all in vista, only the primary from the BIOS works and the
other Code 43's out... need to go find a single card that will drive 3
monitors I guess :-)
"ryuujin" wrote:
> i have the same problem. it seems like the video drivers from nvidia (beta
> for vista) doesn't even support my nvidia video card. mx 4000
>
> "Chris Hill" wrote:
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> > Using Beta 2 x64.
> >
> > My machine has two PCIe video cards -- one is an ATI 1800XL and the
> > other is a NVIDIA 7800GTX. I am only able to use one of the video
> > cards at a time (the one that works is the one which I select as the
> > primary VGA device in BIOS).
> >
> > When I start Windows, there is a popup window near the system tray
> > indicating that a display device has been disabled because it is
> > incompatible with the primary VGA display. In the Device Manager
> > there is a message indicating that the device is disabled because a
> > problem was reported (Code 43). So the driver is correctly detected
> > for each device, but it doesn't work for the secondary. I tried with
> > the stock drivers as well as drivers downloaded from ATI and NVIDIA.
> >
> > The problem is symmetric (acts the same when the video cards roles as
> > primary/secondary are reversed in BIOS) so I'm guessing it is a
> > Windows Vista limitation and not a driver problem. This works fine on
> > Windows XP 64. In Vista, two monitors connected to the SAME video
> > card work fine.
> >
> > Is this a known issue? Are multiple video cards supported? Are
> > multiple video cards from different manufacturers supported?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
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