Maos 2005-03-27 21:36
Hi all,
I use dual monitors on NVIDIA Geforce6800 AGP.
What would be the easiest way to add a third one?
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boxface 2005-03-27 23:09
Any PCI card should work, a GeForce 4,3,2 PCI card should work wonders, just remember to set the PCI card as primary in the BIOS.
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Maos 2005-03-27 23:18
then a GeForce6600 PCI card should have no problems... would that be an overkill?
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Seahorse 2005-03-28 01:01
You don't have to set PCI as primary under WinXP...
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SizzlersaM 2005-03-28 14:14
I have a 6800gt agp and i just added a ati 7000 pci and it works great with up to 4 monitors.
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GREAT_GUY 2005-03-29 05:09
I think there will be driver conflict issues if you go with a PCI card.
I belive the only way to do that is to buy a QUAD card
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ReinK 2005-03-30 08:08
I've got a triple head setup with two heads on my AOpen 6800GT AGP and the third on a AOpen FX5200 PCI.
There is a driver conflict alright!!!
It's only working with the 61.76 drivers from Nvidia. All the newer drivers make the comp lock up or just don't seem to be able to get the PCI card work.
The drivers that are older than the 61.76 drivers doesn't support the 6800GT card... So I guess I've been lucky, but can't update to any newer drivers...
I've got exactly the same problem in Linux with the original Nvidia drivers. Any newer that the 6111 drivers don't enable the PCI card.
My config: Athlon64 3500+, AOpen 6800GT agp + AOpen FX5200 pci, windows xp professional (32bit) SP2
Cheers, Rein
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Maos 2005-03-30 21:58
I think there wont be any driver problems as long as I buy a card thet has the same chipset ( Geforce6600 or Geforce6200 ) because they would be using the same driver
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ReinK 2005-03-31 05:50
All of the modern Nvidia chipsets use the same drivers. They call it: "Unified Driver Architecture".
So it doesn't matter if you use two cards with the same chipset or not, they will use the same drivers anyhow.
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Seahorse 2005-03-31 11:05
Try setting the PCI to primary graphics in BIOS if AGP has problems. I do the reverse here, but that's PCs for you...
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Mike
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dave 2005-04-06 23:36
the issue with 3 monitors (which i am currently running at work) is that one of the monitors will be on the PCI bus. most PCI cards you will come across must be the primary device, as stated before. If you have a more recent card (later than 2002 probably, no hard facts to prove/disprove that statement), you can have the PCI as secondary. you may very well have limited success using PCI as second, but the reason it shouldn't work is the BIOS on the PCI card has been set to be the primary device, taking memory resources of the primary display. this gets a little different when you introduce AGP as well, but what happens is the PCI card knows that it wasn't initialized first and turns itself off, kind of like being mad at you. it's its way of showing the user that there may be a conflict with another PCI video card or other device.
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ronald 2005-04-07 01:07
i have the same issue. 5900 and 5200 pci, only works with 61.77 drivers. nvidia changed something after that & no recent drivers works. im looking for a "fix"
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khariv 2005-04-07 03:23
Ive got a 6800 GT (AGP) running with a 5200 PCI and it works like a champ. I did have to set the PCI to be primary in BIOS or XP will not boot.
khariV
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kevin 2005-04-08 02:43
Hi,
I also got a 6800GT with a FX5200 PCI card running on 2 LCD/TV's and 1 plasma tv. Windows works fine (desktop etc.) but as soon as I try to run a DVD only the primary can view it properly, on the other 2 i just get (yellow)stripes. I think its something with the overlay! Anybody got an idea?
BTW, i had to make the PCI-card primary also...
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SizzlersaM 2005-04-12 16:48
for some reason it seems nvidia cards generaly don't run well together. I went with an ati 7000 pci card and it all runs great, with my 6800gt agp as primary in the bios
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Maos 2005-04-13 04:02
most of the people use FX series card as addon card,
maybe that is the problem?
maybe GeForce6200 wouldn't cause any problems...
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kevin 2005-04-14 00:43
Ok...i got something that could be called a solution, not an good anyway
I have build an SLI-system with 2x6600GT cards with nvidea drivers 71.84 WHQL...according to nvidea u should be able to run up to 3 or 4 monitors.... that IS true, if you just run windows... i tried to run a DVD on 3 screen and *boom* the third one goes black. After trying some configurations i found out that when i put the hardware acceleration to NONE i can play the DVD over all the cloned monitors... the only problem than is that it's not so nice to see... there is a little stutter and sometimes u see some striping. Is there a solution for that problem?
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