Dual Graphics Card Issue

[mumpney]

Hi,

i have bought a Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L motherboard with an onboard Intel VGA. I have put in a Radeon 3850 as well.

The idea was to run two monitors off the Radeon and run my case front screen (Zalman HTPC160XT) off the onboard but.....

The intel driver picks reports its disabled a card as it doesnt match, but it disables the onboard and leaves radeons working.

This is with default bios of initialise pci first, if i set it to initialise onboard first, then the radeons dont work.

There must be a way to run both these together?

Tried gigabyte support but links constantly time out.

Regards

 

[Musty Pie]

Correct me if im wrong ocuk hivemind but i didnt think you could run onboard and pciex at the same time?

 

[uv]

I assume you're running Vista?

Vista doesn't allow multiple discreet graphics drivers to operate together.
For both to work, you'll need to use either XP, or the Windows7 beta.

 

[kylew]

It's not a case of not being able to run both at once, at least I don't think it is, I think it's a case of you can't run 2 GPUs with different drivers at the same time. So no intel and ati GPUs at the same time.

If you're on vista you can't anyway, XP you can. If you want to run more than 2 screens you'll have to get the cheapest ATi card you can find. But looking at the motherboard you have looks like you can't run more than 1 PCI-E card.

 

[uv]

If you want to run more than 2 screens you'll have to get the cheapest ATi card you can find.

Or just run the Windows 7 Beta, as it's free