A7S8X dual display problem
Hi all,
I have an A7S8X-MX board with onboard video and I'm trying to setup dual display with onboard+ATI7500AiW card but failed. When I switched to enable dual display and initial video on AGP, neither video works after reboot - need to clear BIOS to get back in. I'm not sure what I'm missing. What's the proper way to set this up? One thing for sure is suspecious is that the option for 'video share memory' is missing in the BIOS. What could be the cause? Regards, Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
Does this board actually support using onboard vid and AGP at the same time?
many/most do not "ernest" wrote in message oups.com... Hi all, I have an A7S8X-MX board with onboard video and I'm trying to setup dual display with onboard+ATI7500AiW card but failed. When I switched to enable dual display and initial video on AGP, neither video works after reboot - need to clear BIOS to get back in. I'm not sure what I'm missing. What's the proper way to set this up? One thing for sure is suspecious is that the option for 'video share memory' is missing in the BIOS. What could be the cause? Regards, Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
old man wrote:
Does this board actually support using onboard vid and AGP at the same time? many/most do not I presume it does as it has such an option on the mobo BIOS. Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
Then I cannot realy comment other than pointing out that there can be great
difficulties in getting two different vid cards to coexist, I've seen posts where a combination works on one sys but not another. Your simplest option would be to use a dual vid.enabled card. "ernest" wrote in message ups.com... old man wrote: Does this board actually support using onboard vid and AGP at the same time? many/most do not I presume it does as it has such an option on the mobo BIOS. Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
ernest wrote:
Hi all, I have an A7S8X-MX board with onboard video and I'm trying to setup dual display with onboard+ATI7500AiW card but failed. When I switched to enable dual display and initial video on AGP, neither video works after reboot - need to clear BIOS to get back in. I'm not sure what I'm missing. What's the proper way to set this up? One thing for sure is suspecious is that the option for 'video share memory' is missing in the BIOS. What could be the cause? I don't think it is possible to have 2 AGP- graphics adapters working in the machine at the same time. |
A7S8X dual display problem
I have an A7S8X-MX board with onboard video and I'm trying to setup
dual display with onboard+ATI7500AiW card but failed. When I switched to enable dual display and initial video on AGP, neither video works after reboot - need to clear BIOS to get back in. I'm not sure what I'm missing. What's the proper way to set this up? One thing for sure is suspecious is that the option for 'video share memory' is missing in the BIOS. What could be the cause? I don't think it is possible to have 2 AGP- graphics adapters working in the machine at the same time. Egil, Hey do you're saying that the onboard video runs on the AGP bus as well, even though the slot is not used? What I found is that I can now get the onboard video to boot up but once the driver for onboard is installed properly, the ATI hardware 'disappear' and is not showing up on the 'hardware device'. Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
ernest wrote:
Egil, Hey do you're saying that the onboard video runs on the AGP bus as well, even though the slot is not used? Yes, that's usual. What I found is that I can now get the onboard video to boot up but once the driver for onboard is installed properly, the ATI hardware 'disappear' and is not showing up on the 'hardware device'. Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
Thanks - I just read a few articles saying the same thing. I'll try my
onboard with another PCI video card tonight. Thanks man! Ernest Egil Solberg wrote: ernest wrote: Egil, Hey do you're saying that the onboard video runs on the AGP bus as well, even though the slot is not used? Yes, that's usual. What I found is that I can now get the onboard video to boot up but once the driver for onboard is installed properly, the ATI hardware 'disappear' and is not showing up on the 'hardware device'. Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
Thanks all - I installed a PCI video card and it works well with the
onboard for dual display. I'm not sure what the 'enable dual display' option in the BIOS does. This A7S8X is not great, first off the FSB jumper description is WRONG with 100 and 166 swapped. Then this dual display enable thing with AGP boot up video I see nothing. OTOH I wonder if it is that much cheap to build a jumper based FSB board vs software FSB... This is so undesirable. I really liked ASUS for a long time but this really prompts me about the next mobo that I buy.... What other brand of mobo do you guys recommend other than ASUS? Ernest |
A7S8X dual display problem
Theres nothing wrong with Asus, but as stated previously may people with
differing hw have trouble getting two vid cards to work. Its often better/simpler to use a dual enabled card, theres v.little price differential. "ernest" wrote in message oups.com... Thanks all - I installed a PCI video card and it works well with the onboard for dual display. I'm not sure what the 'enable dual display' option in the BIOS does. This A7S8X is not great, first off the FSB jumper description is WRONG with 100 and 166 swapped. Then this dual display enable thing with AGP boot up video I see nothing. OTOH I wonder if it is that much cheap to build a jumper based FSB board vs software FSB... This is so undesirable. I really liked ASUS for a long time but this really prompts me about the next mobo that I buy.... What other brand of mobo do you guys recommend other than ASUS? Ernest |
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