two VGAs in 1 system... doesnt work.

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chronic9

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Decided to hook up my PSone screen to my PC to get a 3rd monitor of sorts.
bought a ATI 7000 PCI VGA from a person @ the [H]. plugged the card in just now and nothing.

PC didnt even POST.......

do i have to disable/enable something in bios for it to allow 2 VGAs? Since my 1st is PCI-express and this is just PCI maybe it cant co-exist? lol

or mayb........ this card is just a paper weight?

plz help me.
 
try a diff PCI slot

unplug any other PCI devices

they should work together,..

try the system with just the PCI card in it, see if it boots.
 
I've been told (it was suggested as a boost to my AGP), that this setup should work. Look at your device manager and make sure there aren't conflicts, if there are the best suggestion was already made, move it around and see if a different slot is better.
 
chronic9 said:
a 480w neopower? iam pretty sure it can handle this lil VGA...
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no my best guess is the power too.

how many hard drives do you have? what other stuff do you have running on this powersupply? what is your cpu? etc....

but yea first find out if the card was damaged in shipping (plug it in without the other card)
 
an above poster replied - swap out your other vid card and try booting with only the pci card. make sure your bios is set to boot on pci vid card, not agp or pcie, if it has this option. if it does not boot, get your money back. this card will not draw much more power than any other pci card, like a wifi card or an audigy. would you upgrade your psu to run an audigy? i think not. does the pci card get warm at all? does your machine post or even power up?
 
all i had to do was plug a DVI into the PCI vga and the PC worked. went into bios and set it up to boot w/ PCIE 1st since both of my dell LCDs are plugged into it.


EDIT
sorry for the shitty stiching. but heres the finished result. Just have to play around with that app. that lets u mod the screen size and stuff and it should be good to go. and get sum bigger widgets so i dont actually have to squint to see the temperature.

 
u knoe the whole point of a signature is not 2 jus show off wat u have, but for times like this. look @ it. lol and it shall answer alllllllllll your questions ;)


MrWizard6600 said:
no my best guess is the power too.

how many hard drives do you have? what other stuff do you have running on this powersupply? what is your cpu? etc....

but yea first find out if the card was damaged in shipping (plug it in without the other card)
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