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Adding a second card to my rig

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Just popped a 7300GS into my rig so that I could use all 4 of the monitors I have on my desk. The problem is, firstly I couldn't get the card detected so I went back in, re-seated and hey presto it picked it up. But then when I went to connect the third lcd, windows froze and I had to restart.

Then I was unable to get back into windows as I was getting constant restarts just before loading the desktop.

The card origin is unknown so I don't know if it works 100% yet as I haven't tested it as a main card in the first slot. Just wanted to check here before I start fannying on inside my PC that this setup should work OK? This is running on a MSI Neo2-FR P35 with a GTX275 as the main card.

Any advice greatly appreciated!
 
Do you have a budget? I'm just wondering whether it would be best to invest in two cheap cards, if of course this isn't aimed for gaming which it doesn't look like.

Uncertain what other advice there is to give you from my knowledge, but there's my two cents.
 
No, its just to enable me to use 2 extra monitors that I was given recently. I do game extremely rarely and that's what I've got my gtx275 for. I'm not gonna buy two new cards although I might switch the 7300gs for something that will work alongside my gtx275 if anyone could explain the symptoms I'm having as some sort of known issue? i.e. using an old dx9 card with a newer one? Granted I haven't done any in-depth testing of any sort just yet...
 
I would also suggest investing in some identical cards. Mixing a card that old will likely cause issues. You can pick up some nice cheap cards recently.
 
Can you use crossfire/SLI as well as using the two cards for 4 monitors? not really that clued up with multiple GPUs tbh. Or would having crossfire dedicate the joint power to one display only? suppose I could get 2 mid range ATI card and flog the other two...
 
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