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Help, I use dual monitors for my web site work. I understand from the users manual I can't use dual monitors with the dual 7800 GTX cards installed.
I'd love to be able to keep the speed that dual cards allow and still use dual monitors. Does anyone know of a work around for this situation? Could I disable the ports on the second video card? Surely there has to be a way?
Any help from tweakers out there would be appreciated. Currently I have one of the cards just sitting here on my desk...it's depressing and I know my husband's going to make me ebay it...
Please help, I want to have them both running and keep both monitors.
Leah Hallett
I'd love to be able to keep the speed that dual cards allow and still use dual monitors. Does anyone know of a work around for this situation? Could I disable the ports on the second video card? Surely there has to be a way?
Any help from tweakers out there would be appreciated. Currently I have one of the cards just sitting here on my desk...it's depressing and I know my husband's going to make me ebay it...
Please help, I want to have them both running and keep both monitors.
Leah Hallett
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July 19th, 2006 14:00
Leah
Toronto699
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July 23rd, 2006 01:00
Message Edited by Toronto699 on 07-22-200609:38 PM
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July 24th, 2006 04:00
ldhallett
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July 24th, 2006 10:00
ldhallett
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July 24th, 2006 10:00
Also, I'm running Windows Vista Beta 2 Build 5384.
Leah
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July 24th, 2006 11:00
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July 24th, 2006 13:00
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July 24th, 2006 13:00
I opened the case and re-installed the second 7800 GTX card. I left both monitors plugged into single(primary) card I had previously installed as a single card.
Rebooted and I got a dialog box saying windows was going to disable my incompatible video card. Went into device manager and the second card had the microsoft driver associated with it. I updated the driver to the 91.33 XP driver and rebooted. After the reboot it shows both 7800 video cards enabled and what's even better is both monitors are still working.
I went back to the nView Desktop Manager and I still don't have an option to disable SLI?? I went through every tab in the dialog box and it's not there.
Could anyone confirm which tab in the NView Desktop Manager on your system shows the option to disable SLI?
I'm now looking online for a video speed tester to see if I am actually using both cards...something tells me this is too good to be true.
Also, device manager now shows six different monitors! I disabled all but the two I'm using...
Anybody know of a quick easy way to tell if I'm actually using both video cards?
Leah
ldhallett
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July 24th, 2006 13:00
I just installed the Win XP Nvidia 91.33 driver in my Windows Vista setup...
(It's not suppose to be compatible)
ldhallett
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July 24th, 2006 13:00
(Right click on the file, choose properties then compatibility)
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July 24th, 2006 14:00
I have a 21" widescreen Samsung SyncMaster 215TW and a 19" NEC Multisync FP912.
The problem is, my desk has an opening that wouldn't fit a monitor much bigger than the 21" widescreen and the crucial problem...I don't have the $$$$ required for a huge display!!
Leah
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July 27th, 2006 01:00
i see...