Triple Monitor Problems!!!
 

here's my setup, I have an onboard video card- 64 meg Nvidia, one AGP card 16 meg ATI all in wonder, and another 16 meg ATI rage pro. My problem is, my AGP and PCI monitor work, but now my onboard monitor doesnt work. Any Idea how to get around this, or am I S.O.L.?

I had the same problem, it turned out to be my OS...

aer you using XP home?

XP pro

You could check the bios for onboard video controls. See if there's a setting that lets you disable/enable onboard vid if external is present.

ok let me check

all it has is an option to change the primary video display, it had [AGP/Onboard] or [PCI]

Have you gone into your display properties and to the advanced settings tab to see if you see all three video cards in the drop down?

I'm running out of ideas :confused:

trust me, i appreciate your help.
All I get are the AGP card, and the PCI card, the onboard one doesnt show up at all

Trying for a longshot here but, have you updated your bios? I personally havent even tried running a 3 mon system, so i'm not much help.

Is your onboard card labled as an "AGP" adapter in the manual or such? It's been my experience that almost all internal vid cards are AGP, even if the computer doen't have an AGP expansion slot.

As far as I know you can only have one AGP device at a time. Try taking out the AGP AIW and see if it recognises the onboard video. If it does then that's your problem.

That is, in fact, most likely the problem. time for a new vidcard. The new ATI AIW cards are dualhead, so you'd get 3 monitors without having to use onboard at all. since you want 3, i assume you're doing some video editing, so the AIW would be your solution anyway since it can import/export to VTR via svideo or RCA.

So I guess it worked??

:confused:

oh sorry i guess i forgot, i found an old 4 meg PCI card that'll do untill i can afford a better PCI card :)

jeebus, i couldnt imagine using anything less than a 64mb card at the _least_

actually it's not that bad, one monitor for IMing and winamp and other small prog's, the main monitor for videos and games, and the third for browsing the internet and working with files. it's cool. I would like to have better but paying for college left me with little money. plus i got the other 2 monitors and vid cards for free

Confederate, I Have a customer interested in the same thing you are doing, and I was wondering if you had to do anything special to get 3 video cards setup in your PC. Right now, I throw in a PCI card to match a dual head Matrox already installed and WinXP Pro comes up "device cannot start (code 10)" I have tried 3 different cards, all with that error.

:edit: Figured it out, I had to put the PCI adapter first in the BIOS and boot that. All is working ) :D

I can understand 2 monitors, but why 3? Is it simply because you can? That is the only reason I can come up with.

My customer is a stock broker, guess he wants a really really long ticker?

Just a thought...

Many of the new versions of a bios have 2 types of Settings, the normal and the advanced.
To get to the advanced settings go into your bios and press ctrl-F1. Then start looking around, you should see more options under almost all of the areas in the bios.

This should work with most of the motherboards out there, but not with all.

Good luck.

as stated above

actually it's not that bad, one monitor for IMing and winamp and other small prog's, the main monitor for videos and games, and the third for browsing the internet and working with files. it's cool. I would like to have better but paying for college left me with little money. plus i got the other 2 monitors and vid cards for free

A quick question: I've decided to try this as well (only 2 monitors though). The second monitor will basically be for diong other things while I'm playing games. My question is, when I open a game, it only displays on the primary monitor and basically cuts the other one off. I'd like it to display on the primary, while not changing anything on the secondary, so i can IM and browse webpages and such. Is this possible?

hmm when i run games the other monitor still shows up, I guess my question is are you running the game at the same resolution that the other monitor is running

Good question. The only game I tested it out on was Diablo, and that game doesn't have an option to change resolutions (it's stuck in a horrible, horrible resolution). I'll give something else a shot and see if that makes a difference.

I set up a dual 17" LCD for a customer that is a stock broker...what he does he runs one screen for his stock stocks and another for news.......eventually he is gonna run two computer with 4 19" LCD monitors.

I run three at work so I can did through some massive spread sheets (inventory sucks!) It's also handy to have my admin tools on one screen email on the other and web browser on the third.

WARNING!!! Once you switch to multiiple monitors there is no going back to one!:D

Word!