Two different PCI-E graphics cards - possible?

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:08:39 -0700 (PDT), rpgs rock dvds
wrote:

My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in
the blue PCI-E slot. Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other
black PCI-E slot?

Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". Instead, I want to use
one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other
graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup.


Using a different WinXP authentication key on the second partition?

With Windows Genuine Advantage present, you might have just a little
trouble (er, a lot...) activating the same WinXP key on both installs
with the very latest WinXP version (inc. Windows Genuine Advantage..),
If you succeed, please give a clear step-wise method and also
specifying whether the 2 install partitions are on separate disks or
not.

Thanks in advance,

John Lewis

Inside the P5K Premium black pearl BIOS, there is an option to toggle
between either PEG or PCI for the initial graphics card. There's also
other related options next to this that says:

PEG Port Control (Auto/Disabled)
PEG Port Force x 1 (Enabled/Disabled)

ASUS C.G.I. Function (Auto/Enabled/Disabled) CGI = cross graphics
impeller

I'm sure that having one PCI-E and one PCI graphics card is allowed.
But two different PCI-E graphics cards (which are not in SLI /
Crossfire mode)?

Thanks a lot for any thoughts, Best regards, Robert.

On 11 Jun, 19:08, (John Lewis) wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:08:39 -0700 (PDT), rpgs rock dvds

wrote:
My mobo = P5K Premium 'black pearl'. *I have an nVidia-based 8800GT in
the blue PCI-E slot. *Can I put an ATI-based PCI-E card in the other
black PCI-E slot?

Please note I don't want "SLI" or "Crossfire". *Instead, I want to use
one graphics card for one XP-based HDD partition setup, and the other
graphics card for another seperate XP-based HDD partition setup.

Using a different WinXP authentication key on the second partition?

With Windows Genuine Advantage present, you might have just a little
trouble (er, a lot...) *activating the same WinXP key on both installs
with the very latest WinXP version (inc. Windows Genuine Advantage..),
If you succeed, *please give a clear step-wise method and also
specifying whether the 2 install partitions are on separate disks or
not.

Thanks in advance,

John Lewis

XP genuine activation - that's a good point; I guess this plan may
not be possible after all.

(I do have 2 Genuine XP Home CDs, but I need the other XP Home CD for
a completely different machine.)

Actually, rather than using 2 seperate partitions as in my OP, I could
just stick with 1 partition and use hardware configuration profiles
instead - and try and get one profile to accept an nVidia PCI-E
graphics card as primary display, and another profile to accept an ATI
PCI-E graphics card as primary display.

I've tried something similar on both Win95 and Win98 machines with
good results. (This was having both an AGP graphics card and a PCI
graphics card inserted in to the same Win9x machine, and having
hardware profiles to allow you to choose which graphics card you
wanted as primary display. This also involved toggling which type of
display you wanted in BIOS as well, either AGP or PCI as "init
display".)

Best regards, Robert.