How to get ati and nvidia working on same motherboard

you can't "link" cards made under different architectures

if you want to SLI you have to use 2 nvidia cards of the same type (ie: 2x 8600 gts) if you want to crossfire it has to be 2 ati of the same type (ie:1650 x2)

If this isn't what you meant, i'm not sure where you're going with this.

I have no desire to link i just wish to run them both.

Hard to run three monitors on one card...lol.

That i understand.

I was just wishing to run them.

It was done here before i think...h**p://www.techarena.in/comments.php?shownews=2382

Like how? They're of different brands, and I don't think you can like, make them friends.
About the link you gave us, it is still like, not working together

I have had them working on my arock dual sata motherboard but that was pci express and agp.

Yes you should be able to run two different cards separately if done right. People do it all the time for the same reason you are. And in many games, you have a choice of which video driver to use. Those are games that will allow you to choose different cards if you have more than one installed.

I don't think this is possible....

Be surprised if it could be done. lol Would be cool though.

Sadly it seems on this board ati and nvidia don't work together.

No matter which order or how you load the card.

Ahh well time for another nvidia card it would seem.

Turns out its not the fault of any of the hardware but rather the fault of vista.

Vista no longer lets you use two different types of video card unless they use the same driver.

h**p://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/multimonVista.mspx