Hey Folks,
This is a bit of a novel
I have seen a lot of people on this forum talk about using two monitors. I
would assume that they are doing something like putting the mixer on one
display and the graphic tracks on the other. At least that's what i would
want to do.
anyway, I have a Gateway PC running Win 98 SE and I bought a Matrox G450
(AGP) from ebay about a month ago. I took out the card that came w/ the PC
and put the Matrox in and suddenly the PC would not boot Windows. It will
count the RAM up and do all the normal pre-windows stuff. So I put the old
card back in, but that didn't help. The PC would still not run Windows. So
after messing w/ it for like a day and reseating everything I could pull out
of the PC I finally got it to run Windows.
So a month later, after I finished some projects I decided to try again. So
I got all the updated drivers. I very carefully removed the old card and put
the Matrox back in and BAM! Same thing the thing will NOT boot to Windows!!!
AAAAARRRGGHHHHHHH! So once again I have put the old one back in (a few times
now) and I cannot get the PC to run Windows!
Does anyone have any ideas on what might be the problem?
Once I get it running again,can I simply add another video card to one of the PCI slots and achieve the
same thing as a dual head card?
thanks for any help.
Twonky
This is a bit of a novel
I have seen a lot of people on this forum talk about using two monitors. I
would assume that they are doing something like putting the mixer on one
display and the graphic tracks on the other. At least that's what i would
want to do.
anyway, I have a Gateway PC running Win 98 SE and I bought a Matrox G450
(AGP) from ebay about a month ago. I took out the card that came w/ the PC
and put the Matrox in and suddenly the PC would not boot Windows. It will
count the RAM up and do all the normal pre-windows stuff. So I put the old
card back in, but that didn't help. The PC would still not run Windows. So
after messing w/ it for like a day and reseating everything I could pull out
of the PC I finally got it to run Windows.
So a month later, after I finished some projects I decided to try again. So
I got all the updated drivers. I very carefully removed the old card and put
the Matrox back in and BAM! Same thing the thing will NOT boot to Windows!!!
AAAAARRRGGHHHHHHH! So once again I have put the old one back in (a few times
now) and I cannot get the PC to run Windows!
Does anyone have any ideas on what might be the problem?
Once I get it running again,can I simply add another video card to one of the PCI slots and achieve the
same thing as a dual head card?
thanks for any help.
Twonky