All in Wonder as a Secondary Card

[Rythmic]

OK Guys.

Currently running 2 19" Iiyama 450Pros and a PSOne screen as tertiary - and last night my secondary gfx card died mysteriously (while trying to fix a mates 9800 Pro with a BIOS flash - no such luck - later discovered to have a core crushed in the corner). Don't know what happened to it, but my box won't boot with it in.

So today I'm shopping for a new ATi PCI card (primary is a 9700Pro), and I came accross this, which appears to be a bit of a bargain:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=110540

So heres the question: Has anyone else used an All in Wonder card as a secondary adaptor? Does the TV software work OK in this configuration?

Thanks in advance!

[skattrd]

Tbh I have no idea how that would work as a secondary - try rage3d forums as they are usually the best place to ask about AiW stuff.
For that price though it does seem a bit of a bargain, I'd give it a bash, if it didn't work out as hoped you could probably get your money back selling it on forums or the bay of fleas, so nothing lost

[Rythmic]

Did some searching there and found nothing. The only place that seems to talk about multi-monitor are the ultra mon forums that I found last night.

For anyone interested, the answers no - it won't work at all it seems. Ended up getting a PCI 9200SE this morning from VictimWorld (40 quid, but it didn't involve waiting...)

[philly]

hi ryhmic thinking of doing a 4 monitor setup but was thinking what type of cards to go for after seeing problem with a mate of mine setup He has two ati cards agp and pci. One is a old 7000 (i think) and a new one which has got 9600 core but the screens seem to have problems holding the same res also a bit of flashing they seem to go out of sync, are you have any problems like this thanks.

[Rythmic]

Have to say - nope

Seriously - had a few problems with the ATi drivers at first - they refused to recognize whatever card was secondary at boot up. Then it sorted itself - don't know why, but suddenly they worked fine and all the ATi tabs appeared in advanced display properties... I did try an old banshee and Millenium II - both of which had to be set as primary in BIOS 0 - which I didn't like. I did also try a Geforce 2MX200 - but that wouldn't work at all with my 9700Pro - apparently ATi and Nvidia cards in the same system at the same time with recent drivers is a complete no-no.

Basically if you want no hassle - get two recent cards (8500+ or GF4+)

One point to notice, windows believes that my primary is my right most monitor - this is essential if you want to play games at resolutions other than your primaries desktop rez - and you don't want windows and icons jumping about between them.

Ultramon is also very, very useful as well

Just thought - I haven't actually tried 4 monitors - so I just popped upstairs grabbed an old 14" and have plugged it in - hang on.

Woot - works fine Might keep it there now!