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Need two different Catalyst drivers?!

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[F2C]MaDMaXX

Limp Gawd
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I have a 6950 and a 4200 in the machine, but i can't go past the 12.4 cats if i want the 4200 to work :(

Every time i change the 6950 over to the 12.8 (or anything newer than 12.4) it causes a problem with the 4200 display.


Has anyone experienced this problem and/or know a way around it?
 
I am assuming that when you say you have a 4200 and a 6950 in your computer that you mean you have a radeon 4200 onboard graphics chip on your motherboard and a stand-alone PCI-E 6950 videocard.
Are you using the onboard 4200 gpu and the 6950 at the same time? Do you really need to use the 4200 onboard gpu?
I would recommend disabling the onboard 4200 graphics in the bios and use the 6950 only.
 
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A friend of mine is in the same situation. He's got a 6 series and a 4 series used to drive 4 DVI/HDMI outputs without adapters. I think you two are at the wrong place at the wrong time... :(

Dropping support for 4 series already is a silly move from AMD.
 
Seithennin said:
I would recommend disabling the onboard 4200 graphics in the bios and use the 6950 only.
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What's the advantage of disabling the onboard graphics versus just not using them? Also let's say I have a second monitor just for monitoring stuff and putting up items that I do not care about the graphical performance of, wouldn't it be better to let the onboard graphics take care of that to leave the videocard the sole job of running the main monitor?

In my case I have an i5 3750K and XFX Double D 7870. I guess the only advantage I see is that it's less work for the CPU. But is disabling it going a little too far as opposed to just not using it.
 
@ t.o.:

No.... Disabling vs. just not using it will free up hardware interrupts, I/O and resources..plus ram ddr memory. If you need to use a second monitor it's best to hook it up to the discrete card rather than the onboard, cause you will get equal performance and graphical features for both monitors that the discrete card can support. Plus it will free up hardware interrupts, I/O, resources and ram ddr memory in the computer that the onboard GPU uses.
It's much better to disable any devices your not using cause of this reason.
It's less work for the cpu using just the discrete card.
 
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