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Solve : Secondary Video Card & Vista?

Answer» <html><body><p>Hello everyone.<br/><br/>Having a bit of a problem with a slightly older video card and Vista. Before I begin, what I'm trying to accomplish is the installation of a secondary video card to run my extra monitors. I recently made the switch from XP to Vista, and prior to the switch I ran 2 video cards to use 3 monitors. My main card is an ATI RADEON HD 2600 Pro, and it is installed and works just fine. However, my other card is a ATI RADEON 9250, slightly older and a PCI. Searching around I see conflicting info about it's compatibility with Vista. My only question is, is there anyway to get the 9250 to work using Vista? And I don't need it to work as my primary video card, the HD2600 works just fine for that. Windows shows it disabled in the device manager and says the driver is the problem, yet also says the driver is up to date and I can't <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/seem-7258342" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SEEM">SEEM</a> to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/find-11616" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FIND">FIND</a> <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/one-241053" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ONE">ONE</a> for the 9250 that works. If the 9250 won't work with Vista, is there any other way I can get my 3rd monitor to work? My issue there is aside from my main video card, all my other expansion slots are regular PCI, and I can't seem to find PCI cards that work with Vista. Or maybe there is some other way to get this third monitor hooked up, I just know I really miss it from running XP with 3. It's sitting here turned off and it makes me sad =(<br/><br/>Thanks for your time, take care.<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/well-734398" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WELL">WELL</a>, it looks like the solution is obvious. You need to get a PCI card with a graphics chip for which drivers for Windows Vista are available. Unfortunately, your PCI card is not one of them; <a href="http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html">http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html</a> shows no driver for the Radeon 9250 for Vista. However, here are two PCI cards with newer ATI graphics chips for which a Vista driver is available: <br/><br/><a href="https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103031">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103031</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129062">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129062</a><br/><br/>Either one will cost you about $100.<br/><br/>Doesn't this kinda make you wish you had stayed with Windows XP? Was the switch worth it? Thanks for the reply! Took me a bit to get back on here. The reason I switched from XP to Vista became a rather large headache that lead to a number of different <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/purchases-768334" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PURCHASES">PURCHASES</a>. The only reason I wanted Vista was to run DirectX 10 (after getting a new DX10 video card), and I still haven't gotten that 100%. So I guess I would say no; it wasn't really worth it. I wouldn't say I regret it so much, maybe the dollars spent, but Vista seems okay for the most part. But the whole reason for switching seems kind of moot and I could have just saved myself a video card purchase (and now a second card maybe) as well as the price for Vista. C'est la vie.<br/><br/>Anyway, thanks for the help! I couldn't find any Vista compatible PCI cards, I appreciate you locating them for me. Guess I wasn't looking hard enough. I really do miss the third display and this inactive monitor is collecting a lot of post-it notes and it saddens me. Bit of an expensive message board. I suppose I could just reload up XP since I'm not all too thrilled with my DirectX 10 experience and just stick with DX9 for now. But then that would mean even more wasted money!<br/><br/>Take care.</p></body></html>


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