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Jason 2002-09-01 23:09
I have:
GeForce4 4200 AGP Vid Card
GeForce4 Mx420 PCI Vid Card
Via KT266A Motherboard
Win XP Pro
All latest drivers.
Two 19" Sony G410R monitors.
DSL
My setup was working great for about two weeks.
My primary use was working on primary, while
playing AVI movie on secondary.
I could even move the movie around from primary
to secondary while the movie was playing (using Zoom player, PowerDVD, or Win Media Player).
But now if I play a movie, after some random amount of time (between 1 minute and 15 minutes) there is an audio hiccup and then my windows tells me a LAN cable is unplugged. This happens no matter how I switch my cards in the box. And it was working fine before. This only happens when multi monitor mode is enabled in windows.
What could have happened?
I even did a fresh install of XP and got same problem.
It seems it's a hardware problem. But not IRQ related.
I would have thought one of my video cards went bad. But they both run fine by themselves (if I take the other one out) etc.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jason
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jjsimas 2002-09-04 05:53
Thanks for all the assistance. LOL
Anway I'm ditching my current setup and trying a
single card solution. MSI seems to make some
well rounded cards. I'm getting the GF4 4200
with dual VGA and VIVO. Hopefully since it has
dual ramdacs (?) I'll be able to play video on the
second monitor whilst working on the first.
Also it seems that the problem with my first
setup is that my PCI FG4 MX420 vid card takes
too much PIC resources or something. Everything
works fine when I remove the NIC card. Can run
in dual, with video playing. But with the NIC
it hangs. And I even tried it with a different
NIC. All in all a costly venture, but hopefull
a single AGP vid card solution will work. I think
the moral of the story is... buy Intel chipsets.
Jason
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jjsimas 2002-09-10 09:34
Probably the Via KT266A chipset was the problem.
I installed the MSI GR4 4200 dual VGA AGP card.
Works great now.
No PCI, just AGP with dual VGA.
Probably the PCI Video card wasn't able to get
the resources or something.
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