Yet another multimonitor question

Please post how it goes as I have a Dell with that card (ATI), and I'm yanking it in favor of a couple G450's. I would like to see if you have OS issues before I do this though.

I have a Dell 4400 with XP home.

Jay
 
I would addd that the FAQ section of the Appian website has a lot of info on compatibility. Apparently S3 went out of the graphics chip business and as a result, anything running S3 chips lacks an XP update. I couldn't find anything useful on the microsfot site, although it's so disorganized I wouldn't swear there is nothing there. They do list several of the Matrox multi cards as compatible, but don't address any of the older pci single cards. It would be nice to know if old standbies like the millenium will work with xp.
 
For some reason I can only find hardware compatibility ratings
for Win2000 and ME on the Microsoft website. Do not see where
there is any XP combatibility pages? Am I looking in the wrong
area or what?
 
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I would addd that the FAQ section of the Appian website has a lot of info on compatibility. Apparently S3 went out of the graphics chip business and as a result, anything running S3 chips lacks an XP update. I couldn't find anything useful on the microsfot site, although it's so disorganized I wouldn't swear there is nothing there. They do list several of the Matrox multi cards as compatible, but don't address any of the older pci single cards. It would be nice to know if old standbies like the millenium will work with xp.
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You might need to check with the manufacturer. When I bought a P4, Win2000 system, I'd planned to take the cards out of my W98 system and put them in my new one. Nope. ATI's drivers for my old cards would not work in Win2000... had to buy new cards.

Check this issue thoroughly before you install drivers. While it might not cause any trouble, it might too.... and possibly enough to make you reinstall your system from scratch.
 
The Appian site mentioned something that I was not aware of. Apparently the agp slots were changed at some point, perhaps whne the P4 came out, and the older agp cards will not fit in or work with the new slot. Anyone thinking about buying an older agp card should check this out.
 
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For some reason I can only find hardware compatibility ratings
for Win2000 and ME on the Microsoft website. Do not see where
there is any XP combatibility pages? Am I looking in the wrong
area or what?
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I stumbled across this:

HOW TO: Configure and Use Multiple Monitors in Windows XP

Video Adapter Chip Sets Supported in Windows XP
You can use any combination of the PCI or AGP-based video adapters that are listed in this section with multiple monitors. Only video adapters that are based on the chip sets that are listed in this section work as primary and secondary video adapters.

The following drivers are supported by Microsoft and are included on the Windows XP CD-ROM:

Company Name Device Name

3DFx Voodoo3 2000 AGP
3DFx Voodoo3 2000
3DFx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
3DFx Voodoo3 3000
3DFx Voodoo3 3500 TV
3DFx Voodoo4 4500 AGP
3DFx Voodoo4 4500
3DFx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
3DFx Voodoo5 5500
3DLabs Inc. 3DLabs Permedia2 Compatible Graphics Adapter
3DLabs Inc. 3DLabs Permedia2 Compatible Graphics Adapter
3DLabs Inc 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 AGP
3DLabs Inc. 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 PCI
3DLabs Inc. 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 1600SW
3DLabs Inc. 3DLabs Permedia3 Create!
Accel Graphics Accel Graphics AccelStar II AGP
Accel Graphics Accel Graphics AccelStar II
Appian Graphics Jeronimo Pro
ATI Technologies, Inc. RADEON DDR
ATI Technologies, Inc RADEON SDR
ATI Technologies, Inc. All-in-Wonder Radeon AGP
ATI Technologies, Inc. All-in-Wonder Radeon SDR AGP
ATI Technologies, Inc. All-in-Wonder Radeon PCI
ATI Technologies, Inc. RADEON VE
ATI Technologies, Inc. RADEON M6
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 AIW AGP
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 AIW PCI
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 GL AGP
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 GL PCI
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 VR AGP
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 VR PCI
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 4X AGP
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 4X PCI
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 PRO PCI
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 2X
ATI Technologies, Inc. RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X
Creative Labs, Inc. Graphics Blaster Extreme
Creative Labs, Inc. Graphics Blaster Extreme
Diamond Multimedia Fire GL1000 Pro AGP
Diamond Multimedia Fire GL1000 Pro
Digital Comet
Elsa GLoria Synergy AGP
Elsa WINNER 2000/Office AGP
Elsa GLoria Synergy
Elsa WINNER 2000/Office
Leadtek Winfast 3D L2300 AGP
Leadtek Winfast 3D L2300
Matrox Millennium G200 SD PCI
Matrox Marvel G200 PCI
Matrox MGA-G200 AGP
Matrox Mystique G200 AGP
Matrox Millennium G200 AGP
Matrox Marvel G200 AGP
Matrox Mystique G200 VIDEO AGP
Matrox Millennium G200 SG AGP
Matrox Millennium G200 SG LE AGP
Matrox Mystique G200 SD AGP
Matrox Millennium G200 SD AGP
Matrox Millennium G250 AGP
Matrox Millennium G250 LE AGP
Matrox G400 AGP
Matrox Marvel G400 AGP
Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead Max
Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead
Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead
Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead LE
Matrox Millennium G450 DualHead PCI
NVidia Riva TNT
NVidia Riva TNT2
NVidia Vanta
NVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra
NVidia Aladin TNT2
NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64
NVidia GeForce 256
NVidia GeForce DDR
NVidia Quadro
NVidia GeForce2 GTS
NVidia GeForce2 Pro
NVidia GeForce2 Ultra
NVidia Quadro2 Pro
NVidia GeForce2 MX
NVidia GeForce2 Go
NVidia Quadro2 MXR
NVidia Geforce3
 
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You can use any combination of the PCI or AGP-based video adapters that are listed in this section with multiple monitors.
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Call me a skeptic, but I hardly believe you can mix and match
these cards with each other. Perhaps Microsoft is talking about
using combos of individual card makers? If you can mix and
match all of these cards with each other that would be great.
 
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Call me a skeptic, but I hardly believe you can mix and match
these cards with each other. Perhaps Microsoft is talking about
using combos of individual card makers? If you can mix and
match all of these cards with each other that would be great.
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Why wouldn't you be able to mix and match? If the drivers are certified by MSFT then they should work together. I used to work in MSFT support, and it's much more likely that any official combo will work together than not.
 
ATI 3D Rage II. Tried these cards and got nothing. The device manager recognized them but I got an error message that they "won't start". I'm assuming that means that they are not compatible with XP.

Can anyone tell me what the differences are betwen the various Matrox cards? They feature the G450 MMS and G200 as multimonitor cards, but the 550 is also offered in a dualhead configuration at a much cheaper price. I've found for trading purposes that just about any card that will drive the monitor is adequate.

All this attention to multimonitors is dangerous, because I've been working out in my head how I could put in a frame to hold three more monitors above the line of three that are currently running QCharts. That would rock, oh yeah.
 
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