|
PureBytes Links
Trading Reference Links
|
> Subject: Re: PCI or AGP
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:15:05 -0600
> From: "Abhijit Dey" <omegalist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Henri Amand" <h.amand@xxxxxxxxx>, "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> AGP is fine. PCI is fine too. But if you are planning to use multiple cards,
> I would recommend against using one AGP & others PCI. I had 2 monitors and a
> while ago decided to add 2 more. The original card in my system was a
> geforce AGP card (nVidia), supporting one DVI & one analog output. Instead
> of replacing it, I decided to add another dual port card (again geforce).
> Ofcourse it had to be a PCI card. All hell broke loose. Using winXP. If I
> made the AGP as the primary card in bios, it worked fine, the PCI card
> didn't. Ditto the other way around. So one of the weekends, I decided on a
> full reinstall of XP. All four monitors started working! But only for 3-4
> days. One fine morning, the PCI card didn't start.. back to 2 monitors. I
> subsequently had to do another XP reinstall, and it's working fine since
> then. Not sure why. All kind of bios tweaking & reinstalling nVidia's
> detonator drivers did no good.
>
> So if you have a PCI card, and instead of replacing it want to add one or
> more cards, go ahead and use PCI, you should be fine. But if you have a AGP
> card, consider replacing it. Mixing AGP & PCI seems to be bad karma.
>
> http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/search.asp seems to have a good
> batabase on what combination of cards works.
>
> My 2 cents.
My feeling about this is that you should not use two cards with the same
graphics chip. I run one AGP and two PCI (single-port) cards, all unique,
and have no problems. When I first started, I couldn't get two cards of the
same type to work, whether AGP or PCI. It looks like Windoz skips a
second instance of the same chip.
donc
|