Need help getting two cards working

[carlbme]

We have new workstations here at work that came with an ASUS Geforce GTX 570. We need a total out of 4 monitors though so we added a second card, a Gefroce FX 5500 PCI card.

Is there a way to make both cards work? So far Windows is loading one or the other but not both.

 

[m3t4lh34d]

You can't output more than 2 displays on a 570. A 590 works with 3 but no more than that. Even another 570 will only allow 3 monitors to my knowledge. Might consider trying a Matrox setup or trading the 570 for a 5870 eyefinity 6 edition perhaps? Those allow up to 6 monitors

 

[ElementBilly]

Are both card showing up under device manager? It should be as simple as going into the Nv control panel, click setup multiple displays, then both cards should show up and show what displays are plugged into them. Then just make sure the checkboxes are checked.

 

[Lord_Exodia]

We have new workstations here at work that came with an ASUS Geforce GTX 570. We need a total out of 4 monitors though so we added a second card, a Gefroce FX 5500 PCI card.

Is there a way to make both cards work? So far Windows is loading one or the other but not both.

What you need to do is go into the bios and make sure primary video is set to pcie. When you boot up you'll see video on the GTX 570 monitor or monitors. Go to nvidia.com and download the latest driver for the Geforce FX 5500 card I think it's either 96.84 or 96.85 depending on what operating system your using.

Run the installer for that driver, it should extract the driver to C:/nvidia/96.85. Cancel the driver installation when the extraction is complete. Then go to device manager, click the + sign in front of display adapters and you should see the videocard, it may say something like video controler vga compatible or something. Once you see that, double click it, click the driver tab and choose update driver. You want to browse or explore to the path the driver was extracted to, C:\nvidia\96.84 or 85 and chose that folder. Click next a few times and after that reboot and you should be okay. To enable more monitors right click the desktop and go to the display properties and enable them one at a time.

The reason your having this problem is because the 5500 and the GTX 570 can't use the same driver.

You can't output more than 2 displays on a 570. A 590 works with 3 but no more than that. Even another 570 will only allow 3 monitors to my knowledge. Might consider trying a Matrox setup or trading the 570 for a 5870 eyefinity 6 edition perhaps? Those allow up to 6 monitors

He has 2 cards a pcie (GTX 570) and a PCI (Geforce FX 5500)

 

[samuelmorris]

Also, you can run 4 monitors on two geforces for reference, you just need not to be using SLI. Since you can't use SLI in this case, easy