using 3 or 4 regular ati cards

[giladbi]

can i use with win xp 3 pci display cards insted of using one with 3 exits?
someone told me it can be done under xp (up to 9 cards)
it's much cheaper than buying the maxtor
please advice

 

[nitro]

You can do it, but the problem is with enough empty slots and not having any conflicts with other slots.

Most motherboards don't have three free slots.

nitro

 

[coast]

You can use three PCI cards in WinXP as long as the cards are multimonitor compatible. I use three ATI Radeon 7000 PCI cards with XP.

Check this link for multimonitor information.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/db.asp



coast

 

[gnome]

Quote from giladbi:

can i use with win xp 3 pci display cards insted of using one with 3 exits?
someone told me it can be done under xp (up to 9 cards)
it's much cheaper than buying the maxtor
please advice

That is correct. Several of the nVidia cards are also compatible with ATIs in multi-card setups... I'm currently running one such now.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

make sure the pci cards are xp compatible. some of the older ones aren't.

 

[brokerboy]

i have the same problem i have a pci gefroce 5200 and am running 2 monitors on the card. i had to disable the video card that came with the computer. i put in another pci video card to have a 3rd monitor but it won't work.

 

[Banjo]

ati stuff
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

 

[Banjo]

If you scan for updates here it will show driver updates also. I use ati cards and it found ati driver updates that xp wanted. My cards are radeon 7000 32's (agp dual and pci duals) that I've been using with 98/win2k/xp pro.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

 

[le140]

I put in 2 nvda mx400 cards and 1 dual nvda agp to setup 4 monitors on XP pro and it was very much plug and play
the only thing I have to play around with is the screen settings for different monitors.

I have read somewhere to use all cards from the same vendor to avoid conflicts.

good luck,