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3rd monitor problem

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:16 pm
by Argagarg
I've been trying to get my 3rd monitor to work for a couple months now and although every now and then it does work maybe I can get a more educated opinion on what is going wrong.

mobo: Asus p5e
Video card: evga 260 gtx
Video card 2: 3d prophet 4000xt 64mb
OS: win7
Error code (10) Device cannot start.

Too me it seems purely a driver problem and is probably just win7 causing my problems. The video cards work seperately as does the monitors just not together.

I have a stack of old video cards >.> originally I was using a 9259 ati 128mb but I thought maybe ati and nvidia drivers might have been my problem.

I was looking at the usb to dvi/vga adapters and they would solve my problem but forking out 100$ is less then ideal if I can just use one of these relics.

any thoughts or ideas are welcome.

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:08 pm
by Veratu
Why do you need 3 monitors would be my question.

-V

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:35 pm
by Luhed
1 for wow, 1 for porn and 1 for skype with Xephos' mom

Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:30 pm
by Argagarg
Nothing multi media oriented (thus why the crappy card would be fine) when i'm doing homework its nice to have reference pages on 1 screen 1 on 1 screen and the actually homework on the other >.>

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:51 am
by remagi
I'm not even sure you can mix a PCI-E and old PCI with video output on Windows. I've seen plenty of 3, 4+ monitor configs, but using multiple PCI-E cards on a capable motherboard. The PCI card may be trying to declare itself as bus master, and I'm not sure what a PCI-E thinks of that.

The GTX is definitely capable of dealing with another card given the right conditions. First thing I would do to eliminate other considerations would be to borrow a real second graphics card from somebody for a day and see if it works at all.

-Remagi

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:09 pm
by Argagarg
Actually I hadn't thought of that good thinking heres hoping.

Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:18 pm
by Veratu
You can mix a PCI-E and a PCI card, I've done it a few times without issue.

This is all under XP of course, if you were doing it under Vista, I've got nothing for ya, but it does work under XP.

-V

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:12 am
by Argagarg
Threw in a evga 8800 gt and it works great so far, I'm assuming the remagi's hunch was correct at this point. A cheaper solution then those usb adapter things for sure thanks for the help.

(using win7 V so far I haven't had any problems before this one with it too, Fuck Vista!)

Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:09 pm
by Argagarg
With no clocks at all the extra card overheated my system /sigh! my second pcie slot is to close to the bottom of the case and thus no circulation, plus it being there lowered circulation for my main card.

Although their are exhaust style video card size fans that i could put under it I think my end solution is gonna be one of those goofy looking adapters.

Damned overheat corrupted my cmos and my wow somehow. not to mention messed up some user settings somehow.