hi all, i have a enquiry regarding installing two graphic cards in one cpu first some details i have a kindda old amd athlon thunderbird processor and a 256 mb ram my monther board is a pci ddr compatible board it has 5 pci and one agp card slots in it now i have been using a 32 mb nvedia Gforce 2mx card and it is installed in a agp slot but recently i got my hands to an ati all in wonder graphic card now that card works fine when i install it in the pci slot as a stand alone card but the ony reason i want to use it is for the tv otherwise the graphic applications are not very stable when i try to put both the cards togethor i.e. the nvidia in the agp slot and the ati in a pci slot and connect my moniter to either of them nothing shows up in the screen i mean not even the first screen to go to bios or aything i was wondering if there is any way to remove this conflict and make my nvidia card as the primary graphic card and use ati card installed only for the tv i know all these things are pretty old but then agian i am a student and thats all i can afford (:-s) so any help is welcome please feel free to ask any other questions thanks

You may be able to get them to play nice together. Theoretically you should be able to have 9 displays in Win9000. Try setting the nvidia card to STD. VGA display instead of the nvidia drivers. Then reboot to the BIOS and set the first display to AGP and if you have the option, enable "assign IRQ for VGA". Then install the PCI card. Avoid the top PCI slot as that is frequently shared with AGP. Boot and see if you can configure the ATI. If you dont care to use it as a display maybe you can avoid installing the ATI drivers. You will need to try it and see. Don't install the newest Catalyst drivers in any event. Use the ones recommended for the card at the ATI site. If you get all that working, then try updating the display on the AGP bus to the nvidia driver you used before.

HAhahahahahahahahahhaahaaaaaaaaaa "Win9000" is that the new upgrade for W2K? X tra P utrid?

Yea, that's the 104 octane version.

hi othehill, sorry i didnt reply straight away what did you mean when you said "Try setting the nvidia card to STD. VGA display instead of the nvidia drivers" please explain also what happens is that when i install nvidia first it works fine but then after installing the drivers i shut down the pc and put the ati card in the pci slot the screen does not show anything at all

Probably the easiest way to set the AGP card to STD VGA settings is like this. Go to device manager and remove the nvidia card from there and reboot. When Windows tries to reinstall the card hit cancel or escape. The result should be 640 x 480 resolution. Now try to install the ATI card drivers. If this is successful then go to the advanced display properties and change display. You should have the choice to reset it as it was before. If not, then say have disk and then supply the nvidia drivers. Hopefully this will work. When you reboot immediately enter the BIOS and select to boot to AGP first display. I forgot to remind you to use the BIOS option to assign an IRQ for VGA prior to doing any of the rest. Look at the link below before starting. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;238886