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Ok,

I got my ATI AIW 8500 (AGP) in today and I put it in my new mobo, a MSI K7N2G with onboard Geforce 4MX. I want to use both at the same time in a dual monitor setup but windows XP isn't letting the onboard adapter initialize. When I check hardware I only see the ATI card in the setup.

It looks like if you have an onboard AGP it takes precedence over the onboard VGA?

Anyway around this?

If anyone would know you guys would.

glass

dunno about that mobo, but some utilities like powerstrip have their own dually software - i seem to remember somewhere about nvidia and ati cards nto playing well together

on your mob, they are both probably on the agp bus, whic only supports i card at a time - might take a look at rage3d forums

I would guess what WV says holds true with regard to the MX. If that's also on AGP bus , you'll prolly have to disable it in the BIOS and find a low rent PCI card in order to do the dually thing.

There's some prog over on H. ODA's home site that showed all the vital statistics on what's running on the AGP bus. Just run a search on google for H. ODA

Thanks for the help.

I went back to my old video card setup using the new ATI AIW with an old PCI AIW, the 8MG version. It works fine but I think it causes problems with the TV Tuner software and the other software for video capture etc since there are two AIW's in the system.

I hate that I have a decent AGP card on the board and am not using the onboard sound either but this was the best board the local shop had so I'll just have to not use those resources. Gonna head over the F/S Forum and track down a plain PCI Card to put in here.

Thanks again,

Glass

there are quite a few pci cards out there - i have a 64mb radeon 7000 in one box and have a 64 mbgf440 en route for a nother - you can find them for ~$40

Just came across this on the ATI site:

AGP is currently a ONE-ADAPTER-STANDARD. When installing an AGP graphics card into the AGP slot of a system with an onboard AGP controller, one of the graphics controllers MUST be disabled, or else hardware conflicts will occur. A multiple-monitor setup is not currently possible using TWO AGP controllers.

So, I guess that's our answer for now.

Now I have to decide how to run this setup. I have to have dual monitor so I'm torn between running the ATI all in wonder AGP with an add in PCI card or the ATI PCI 8MB card with the onboard Geforce 4MX card. I just don't think that onboard video is equal to the ATI AIW 8500. Going to research it a little more and see what I come up with.

Thanks for the advice.

Glass