Multiple Monitors and cards

[KewlKid2000+]

Hi guys. Been awhile since i've posted. I have a 9700 as it says in my sig. I would like to continue to use my dual monitor setup here, but i would like to add a third. My card of choice is a PCI S3 Virge Graphics card. Windows identifies the card, then shuts it down do to a problem. Can a run a 3 monitor machine with my setup, am i missing a step. My 21" looks really nice with 2 17"s beside it. Any help would be great. The s3 is made by diamond back in 1997.

[Socket eh?]

The cards could be conflicting.

[KewlKid2000+]

i figured as much.... got a solution? espicially since i can choose what i want my primary to be, agp or pci in bios. i select either, agp runs two. pci runs 1... i need it to run both

[ElectroSoldier]

Just a thought but have you tried this.

In the BIOS set it to NONE PnP aware OS
it will force the BIOS to assign IRQs and then maybe windows will be able to use it.
mind you it might not be an IRQ problem at all.

I have seen a system with.

An AGP slot but NO card installed, 6PCI slots each with a dual head card each and each card running 2 monitors (they are crappy 15" IBMs and we did it for a shop window but it works and that was under 98SE)

On my dualie P3 1gig I have a ATi built Radeon 8500DV (1 DVI flat panel and an Eizo 17" CRT) and a quad head PCI graphics card runnin 4 only Eizo 17" T57s and it runs no problems (it does seem to take a few seconds to "start up" each card (well theres a delay when it loads up drivers that isnt there when i remove the PCI card).
That systems BIOS is set to NONE PnP aware OS but apart from that theres no differance really

[KewlKid2000+]

It was an IRQ problem i just set it so that it didnt assign IRQs. then boomp... it worked.

[ElectroSoldier]

Set what! The BIOS or the OS?

[KewlKid2000+]

um.. i Told bios not to set the IRQ for my pci devices. i dont have the option in bios to do what u said.

[ElectroSoldier]

kool nice one glad it all worked anyway :)

[KewlKid2000+]

yah
... thnx for the help though

[Beast Of Blight]

Originally posted by ElectroSoldier


An AGP slot but NO card installed, 6PCI slots each with a dual head card each and each card running 2 monitors (they are crappy 15" IBMs and we did it for a shop window but it works and that was under 98SE)


12 monitors? :drool:

[KewlKid2000+]

not that bad... my dad has like a matrix setup in front of 38 dual opteron pcs in the garage. i think he has like dual kvm switches hooked up to all of them... so thats 19 there... i told him to get the 6 monitor kvm switches... but NOO.. big waste of space. But hey. it's his company. check it out if u want. no pics of our server room though. www.goprint.com if u want to see what the servers are for.

[Mico]

Do you have a pic of the monitors? I would like to see that!

[ElectroSoldier]

Have you seen some of the 3Dlabs Wild Cats?
They have a special output (looks like a RJ-45 NIC connector) that allows a big multi monitor setup with just one card (AGP Pro50 bus NONE are normal AGP) they need the daughter card tho, so it has a AGP Pro and PCI card but it is ONE card NOT two

[Mizzery]

I set up dual monitors cause my little bro wants to make a matrix knockoff, got to using them and won't take them down, i can work on one while another is loading something, brows and im, its soooo great. I won't go back.

[ElectroSoldier]

it is a nice idea toplay with multi monitors.
making web pages seeing 4 pages at once, or editing in permiere seeing full size and not windowed windows or dreamweaver in one, premiere in another, IRC on another and playing a game. multi monitors seem to go hand in hand with dualies