Good day all. Other forum wasn't much help so i'm posting here. I am currently running dual lcds on radeon 9800 pro via analag and DVI connection. I want to run both monitors on DVI connection but my vid card does not have 2 dvi outputs. Can i, per say get a cheap radeon pci vid card with dvi connection and then hook up both monitors thru dvi using the agp and pci cards? I want to run the agp primary display so i can play games on the radeon 9800. Im asking because i dont want to spend $600+ on a dual dvi video card that doesnt even have gaming capability. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

for dual displays on windows xp, they both have to be on the same bus. in otherwords both cards on AGP or both cards on PCI, can't do one PCI one AGP

Sorry i apologize, if you meant both monitors connecting to one agp vid card then that does me no good. I'm already doing that. Only thing my vid card doesnt have 2 dvi connections. So i am connecting thru analog vga and dvi. And if your saying this is not possible to add a pci vid card to connect to another dvi connection then i would like a second opinion.

CJ READ his post, it is perfectly clear on how it works in Win XP. If you want Dual display off 2 graphics cards, then both cards need to be of the same type: 2 PCI cards or 2 AGP cards mixing them WILL NOT WORK. since there are few boards with dual AGP, you would have to go PCI.

You are all wrong, you don't need to have two of the same type for dual display to work. I am using an agp card right now for my primary display and a pci card for the secondary. Windows NT was the only OS that had issues with video cards of different buses. Anyways, I know the agp/pci combo would work, as far as a vga to dvi adapter I don't.