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Is it possible to have two video drivers loaded?

Dec 23, 2003 9:50AM PST

On my device manager screen,it's showing TWO ATI Radeon Pro's,the original and a 'secondary'. Is this normal? I've removed it and the puter finds it again on startup. The reason I'm asking is I've been having troubles with sound loops and freezes lately and I'm wondering if this could be THE problem or part of it? I posted a article here about a week ago on my problem.

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Re:Is it possible to have two video drivers loaded?
Dec 23, 2003 9:54AM PST

I'll write YES. Some Radeons are dual-display cards and this may be sighted.

Try to tackle this another way. What's not working?

Bob

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Re:Is it possible to have two video drivers loaded?
Dec 24, 2003 3:40AM PST

Sportster,

The best way to delete those "duplicate" sound cards, (if they aren't supposed to be there) is to restart the computer into "Safe Mode", access "Device Manager", then delete ALL instances of the card. (Sometimes, there are quite a few, but get rid of them ALL. You don't want any remaining.) Upon restart, the computer should re-recognize a single instance of the card and correctly install the drivers, etc..

Hope this helps.

Grif

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actually two display adapters
Dec 24, 2003 7:27AM PST

I think what you are referring to is actually two display adapters. They use the same driver. I have an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro, which has dual display adapters. This allows me to have my monitor and my TV connected to the video card. I use this in "switch amongst displays" mode to play back recorded TV shows (the All-In-Wonder has PVR capability with a TV tuner and Gemstar online TV scheduling)and VCDs on my TV. This connection is pretty straight forward but the setup is potentially confusing. The audio and video output needs to be configured properly in order to work. If you have just the regular video card without the tuner I think you could hook up a TV for playing VCDs & DVDs or set up another monitor for an extended desktop. Although I haven't done this, if you have the desk space additional CRT monitors are pretty cheap.