sircle 2005-12-03 22:18
ATI and NVIDIA having hot INTER RACIAL 4 SCREEN SEXXX!
Hey guys help me spread the word on this cause I spent all night and
succeeded in getting 4 stable, Open GL/video playing displays running all at the same
time. So know that if you try hard enough it can be done!
Runs MAYA, Photoshop, and full screen video playback can be dragged across each.
My two cards and board:
SuperMicro X5DA8 Dual 2.8Xeon 3GB mem
AGP 8X: ATI Fire GL X1-256 (I was told it holds radeon chips)
PCI 33MHZ: Nvidia Chaintech G-Force MX5200.
Here is what I did:
1. Disable all extended desktops in windows.
2. Uninstall all drivers and control panels for both ati and nvidia
3. Uninstall all display adapter cards from device manager
4. Install Entech Powerstrip 3.6
(maybe not necessary for multi screen
but definately to turn open GL on for all 4 screens
along with many other driver features
and you can program a shortcut to turn off all monitors)
5. Reboot into bios and choose PCI as primary boot display.
(for SCSI booters you need to go into the bios again after the boot screen comes up
again on the pci card and fix your boot order because this gets reset)
6. Boot regular into windows
[DO NOT INSTALL THE SETUP.EXE INSTALLERS THAT COME FROM ATI OR NVIDIA]
[THIS IS WHERE THE CONFLICT LIES AND WHY WE ALL GET THAT CRAPPY MESSAGE]
INSTEAD:
7. When prompted for the ATI card in the hardware setup wizard use the old ATI driver.
(for the X1-256 ver 6.14.10.6546)
(for the Radeon ver "somebody type this # in when they get a good one")
( )
8. When prompted for the Nvidia in the hardware setup wizard use the old Nvidia driver.
(for MX5200 ver 5.21.6)
(for the other Nvidia cards add working ver "somebody type this # in")
( )
9. Reboot and arrange all 1,2,3,4 screens in the display settings.
Do some tweaking in powerstrip on the openGL settings if you dare. UM...read bout it
first.
I hope this works for you guys cause I have seen about 30 forum posts concerning this
topic. I am going to put it a few places and see how people do with it. Know that I
succeeded and so can you.
Sircle.
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