Dual video card problem

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Use a video card that does not have to be initialized during POST in
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:44:03 GMT, Ken Long <kenl@despammed.com> wrote:

>I have a system with two video cards. One AGP and one PCI. The PCI
>card won't work unless I change the bios "Init. Graphics Adapter
>Priority" from AGP/PCI to PCI/AGP. Unfortunately, this causes the
>initial boot up screens to go to the PCI card and it really confuses
>the users with which card is primary and which is secondary in
>Windows. All of the dual-monitor PCs on my network are AGP/PCI and
>everyone is used to that. The vendor says this is just the way it has
>to be but I have older dual-monitor PCs from the same vendor that work
>with AGP/PCI .
>
>Mainboard: MSI 865PE Neo2-P
>AGP video card: NVidia GeForce FX 5200
>PCI video card: Jaton 117PCI
>Windows XP Pro / SP2
>
>I also tried an ATI Rage 128 as the PCI card but it didn't show up as
>a second video card in Windows Display Properties regardless of the
>bios setting. It did get recognized in Device Manager correctly.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Ken Long
>Albuquerque
>
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