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Forums -> Multiple monitors -> ATI catch 22...any suggestions?
Dwayne   2001-07-22 13:06
Stuck in a catch 22 situation.
My AGP A-I-W Radeon needs to be primary (in BIOS not just win2k) if I want TV tuner, Capture, and DVD hardware acceleration to work. But when I do this, my secondary display (using the Xpert 98 card)is all garbled up.
When I set my PCI Xpert to primary in BIOS (and my AGP A-I-W to primary in win2k)...everything looks and works great (except of course the TV tuner, DVD, and capture). My only solution right now is to manually switch my BIOS primary card to AGP when I need any of my A-I-W functions.
Is that all I can do? Any secret way around this problem?

Thanks,
Dwayne
Christian Studer   2001-07-23 09:17
There's no solution as far as I know. You'll have to get a different PCI card, for example an ATI Xpert 128 or an Nvidia or Matrox PCI card.

Christian Studer
www.realtimesoft.com
Paul   2001-07-30 09:41
Yup, gotta get a new secondary card. That Xpert 98 is a POS. I've had one for months. Just got a 3dfx Voodoo 5 to replace it.
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