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03-02-2003, 09:47 AM
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: brasil
Distribution: mdrk 8.0,redht7.1,debianpotato
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Two video cards on the same motherboard ?
Hi !
I have two video cards (i think they are agp/pci) and like to know if i can hook it on a single mother board . thanks for your time.
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03-02-2003, 10:15 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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of course, just plug them in no problem...
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03-02-2003, 04:23 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2003
Distribution: Slackware, Redhat
Posts: 27
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Hasn't Linux been able to do multiple video cards since well before Windows could?
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03-02-2003, 04:45 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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i believe so. the way that X works as a server client model things like that are basically implicit features, as opposed to a direct service in windows, where things will need to delibertaly bolted on.
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03-02-2003, 06:08 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: brasil
Distribution: mdrk 8.0,redht7.1,debianpotato
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thanks.
one thing, tough, will i get into trouble running windows?
amd more important i think i was wrong, i have only one slot available the rest are pci , how can i do it ?
or is it not possible with my motherboard ?
thanks again.
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03-02-2003, 06:10 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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oh you mean you have two agp cards? well no you can't use them if they won't physically fit... some mobos have multiple AGP i think, but they'er few and far between. personally i have 1 agp and one pci, works super.
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03-03-2003, 04:32 AM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: brasil
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thank you, i will try to switch it for a pci one of this days, eheh.I have been given a pentium III 500Mhz with a malfunctioning motherboard that the owner just wasn't interested and i want to make use of the spare parts on my computer or maybe even "build" a new one.
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03-03-2003, 05:40 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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most modern computers have a setting in the cmos
where you can choose to initialize a pci or agp
video card first. that way you can leave both in and
change them with that setting.
or you could just duck tape the extra card inside your case.
sometimes i tape extra old simms chips in my computer
so i can have a weird amount of ram "in my computer".
like a 512 meg dimm and 3 1-meg simms taped inside,
and you've got 515 megs of ram "in" your computer.
Positively corking!
Last edited by whansard; 03-03-2003 at 05:43 AM.
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03-04-2003, 04:22 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Newport, RI
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matrox G450
I'm using the Matrox Millennium G450 card. This card fits in one AGP slot and supports up to 2 monitors. The monitors don't have to be the same type. See www.matrox.com for mgapdesk, the matrox utility for Linux configuration. I run dual-boot in Win2k and RedHat 7.2, no problem.
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03-05-2003, 01:08 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: colorado springs. colorado
Distribution: Debian-Sid 2.6.24-rt1
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Here are a coupla links for multiple monitors in win:
MC MCSE
m$ knowledge base
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03-06-2003, 09:09 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Quote:
Originally posted by whansard
or you could just duck tape the extra card inside your case.
sometimes i tape extra old simms chips in my computer
so i can have a weird amount of ram "in my computer".
like a 512 meg dimm and 3 1-meg simms taped inside,
and you've got 515 megs of ram "in" your computer.
Positively corking!
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Now that is just plain silly 
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03-06-2003, 09:46 PM
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Registered: Feb 2003
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Quote:
Originally posted by whansard
or you could just duck tape the extra card inside your case
like a 512 meg dimm and 3 1-meg simms taped inside,
and you've got 515 megs of ram "in" your computer.
Positively corking!
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That'd throw a wrench into a forum - mobo asus753957359
- hd 60g ide
- video GeForce 4200squared
- memory 515 mb

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