Hi OcUK'ers - any assistance much appreciated.
I acquired a 2nd graphics card for my desktop to that I could have a 3rd monitor up and running. I was also going to plug monitors 2 and 3 into the 2nd gfx card, leaving monitor 1 in my primary graphics card to try and maximise FPS is games. (please tell me if it doesn't work like that! Also, I'm not really an IT biff, but far from a pro too. Apologies if there's a blatantly obvious noobish thing I've forgotton to do.)
My original gfx card is an Asus ATI X1950 Pro 256 mb
The 2nd card is Sapphire (I think) ATI HD4650 512mb - I'm not at home just now so can't say for sure. Also, this card has no power connection to connect it to the PSU.
(I found I got better FPS from my X1950, so I'd like to make that the primary gfx card.)
Regardless of which card is in the secondary (lower) PCI-E slot, windows device manager recognises the card name, but with a yellow warning triangle. I go into properties and get Error Code 38:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory."
I have followed the resolution suggestions on the MS support website. I have uninstalled the drivers for both cards, fixed any registry errors with ccleaner and reinstalled the drivers. Still to no avail.
If I only have one driver installed, windows automatically installs something, recognises a VGA card, reboots, then'm back at square one.
ATI CCC doesn't see the 2nd gfx card.
Is there an easy workaround? Could it be a mixture of DX9 and DX10 cards?
Any BIOS settings I could change?
Vista Home Premium 32, Asus P5W DH Deluxe mobo, 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 PC6400 RAM, E6600 @ 2.7 GHz.
I've not long done a clean install of Vista, and I'd hate to have to do it all again - the Mrs would go spare, as every time I do wipe and start again, the Mrs loses something - even though she told me she had everything backed up, and somehow it's all my fault
Thanks again in advance for your help.
I acquired a 2nd graphics card for my desktop to that I could have a 3rd monitor up and running. I was also going to plug monitors 2 and 3 into the 2nd gfx card, leaving monitor 1 in my primary graphics card to try and maximise FPS is games. (please tell me if it doesn't work like that! Also, I'm not really an IT biff, but far from a pro too. Apologies if there's a blatantly obvious noobish thing I've forgotton to do.)
My original gfx card is an Asus ATI X1950 Pro 256 mb
The 2nd card is Sapphire (I think) ATI HD4650 512mb - I'm not at home just now so can't say for sure. Also, this card has no power connection to connect it to the PSU.
(I found I got better FPS from my X1950, so I'd like to make that the primary gfx card.)
Regardless of which card is in the secondary (lower) PCI-E slot, windows device manager recognises the card name, but with a yellow warning triangle. I go into properties and get Error Code 38:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory."
I have followed the resolution suggestions on the MS support website. I have uninstalled the drivers for both cards, fixed any registry errors with ccleaner and reinstalled the drivers. Still to no avail.
If I only have one driver installed, windows automatically installs something, recognises a VGA card, reboots, then'm back at square one.
ATI CCC doesn't see the 2nd gfx card.
Is there an easy workaround? Could it be a mixture of DX9 and DX10 cards?
Any BIOS settings I could change?
Vista Home Premium 32, Asus P5W DH Deluxe mobo, 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 PC6400 RAM, E6600 @ 2.7 GHz.
I've not long done a clean install of Vista, and I'd hate to have to do it all again - the Mrs would go spare, as every time I do wipe and start again, the Mrs loses something - even though she told me she had everything backed up, and somehow it's all my fault
Thanks again in advance for your help.
