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How to get dual monitor setup working?
I'm trying to get my XP computer to work with dual monitors, but I'm having problems.
No matter what I do, I can't get my AGP card working.
Anytime I try to go to the Settings tab, in display properties it tells me that 'The driver I'm using was written for a previous version and is no longer compatible.' Device manager shows no issues however.
Now, if I remove the PCI card, the AGP card works beautifully. When I download and try to install the latest driver, it tells me 'no compatible hardware found'
If I remove, one of the cards, reboot, and then put the card back in, it will work until the next time I reboot.
I've tried the PCI card in both slot 0 and slot 1. I've tried changing whether PCI or AGP is the default in the BIOS.
I also have another computer that has a dual monitor setup using one PCI card ad one AGP, so it's not that.
Any ideas?
5 Answers
- aviatingamateurLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Using 2 graphics cards can cause conflicts or driver issues. It might work with one machine with one particular set of cards, but it might not work with another.
Your best bet is to get an AGP video card that has two outputs. That would be the easiest way.
- Simon TLv 61 decade ago
It sounds like you have different graphics chipsets on the two video cards, and the drivers for each are not playing nicely together.
You will need to replace one of the two cards to fix this. Considering that I would look at getting a dual head AGP card. These are not too expensive unless you want a lot of graphics acceleration and dual head cards are only slightly more expensive than single head cards.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
you can only use one video card at a time especialy when one is agp and one is pci. to get dual monitor you only need one video card, just get a monitor splitter cable.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I am very sorry I am not expert, but I have listed many links below that i hope are enough help. The first link is from microsoft Xp.I hope it is not overwhelming and good luck.
Source(s): http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/lea... http://freepctech.com/pc/001/guide_dual_monitors.s... http://lifehacker.com/software/dual-monitor/how-to... - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
the two video demonstrate gadgets would desire to be plugged into the hot video card, you could not use the previous video from now on. Disable the previous video in BIOS, or elect the PCI video as regular interior the BIOS
