Dual Gfx Problems
Nov 10, 2009
i recently installed windows 7. the system runs smoothly however.
this motherboard has two video out ports and supports surround view which enables me to attach a ATi video card to the pci-e slot and both operating giving me 4 monitors.
this feature worked fine for me in windows xp and vista. however it is not working in 7.
windows detects both my video card however it disables my intergrated.
it appears that its disabled because the WDDM version is different (1.0 instead of 1.1)
i have gotten it to work once only, so i know it can be done. i just dont know how.
my system:
mobo: Asus m2a-vm
onboard gfx: ATI x1250
dedicated: ATI HD 3450 (pci-e)
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Jun 4, 2009
I was having a problem with dual monitor using 7127 build. But only when I use newest NVIDIA drivers. My tv just flashes a few times, and I can see that fish a couple of times, but then it just goes to like no signal. If I use default drivers which are installed on windows install, then it works fine, but then I dont have NVIDIA control panel and some other features.
My video card is GF 8800GTS 650M 512MB DDR3 DUAL DVI TV PCIE. I would like to know if anyone else is having this problem and If it has been fixed in the newest build, so I could be arsed to do a clean install.
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Nov 12, 2009
As currently configured, XP is on drive C:, Win 7 was added to drive E:, and the system is currently run as a dual boot. Attempting to boot without the XP drive present will yield a "NTLDR is missing" error very early in the boot process.
I have already tried the following:
(1) I moved the hidden Windows Boot Manager files (bootmgr as well as the associated Boot folder) from the XP drive root to the Win 7 drive root.
(2) After physically removing the XP drive, I rebooted to the Win 7 installation DVD, and used the "Repair Your Computer" option to pull up the "Recovery Tools". Then, using the command prompt utility, ...
(3) I attempted to write a new boot sector to the Windows 7 disk using the command: Bootrec /fixboot, - that yields an error though. The Bootrec /fixmbr claimed success, but ultimately did not make Win 7 drive bootable.
I had to reconnect drive C: just to boot into Win 7 again to write this. I do have files backed up, but to format and reinstall files would take many hours beyond just the time to transfer 400 GB of data, since I have dozens of purchased applications that need to be freshly reinstalled and validated as well. Basically I want my E: drive now to be my boot drive while the C: drive is reformatted and used for general storage.
Any idea how to make my Win 7 drive bootable? Do I need a partition program that is more adept at creating a viable boot sector, or is that even the problem?
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Jan 2, 2010
I have Win XP 32 bit on my old drive. I buy Win 7 full retail and a new HD. I set bios to boot from cd etc. Win 7 starts up. It shows the 2 drives, so I select new drive...no problems. It starts install. I leave it to do its stuff.When I come back its up and all ok.I dint get any option to boot from XP. The drive was listed as "SYSTEM" but not old Windows or anything.
Also ASUS chipset drivers dont work and they were listed as 7 drivers.I tried Vista drivers but it normally shuts down and restarts. Nothing.
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i have a new work laptop with xp sp3 on it. I want to install w7 64 bit as a dual boot, but only have 1 physical drive. i cannot remove my current installation as it is pre-build from work, but can partition the drive etc. However on trying to install w7 64 bit I get a message saying cannot install windows 7 on efi drive with mbr, not gpt. Can I do what I want without screwing up my xp installation?
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I purchased the following card: EVGA GeForce 9400 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, VGA, Low Profile
It says dual dvi, but in fact was only one dvi and one vga. I have to purchase PCI and not PCI-E for my work pc - ugh.
So...
Does anyone know of a good performance PCI video card with two DVI connections?
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Jun 19, 2011
I set up XP in my boot.ini file and when i go and reboot into XP it says NTDETECT failed
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May 15, 2009
I have this machine that was dual booted with XP and Win 7. Everything was working gravy. I put up the RC on the machine and now I get NTLDR erros when trying to get into XP.
Physical setup is as folows:
Sata Drive with three partitions (XP, Storage, Storage 2)
IDE drive with One partition (Windows 7)
Boot order is Sata, then IDE.
The boot loader comes up and I can get into windows 7 no problem, but when I choose the XP I get NTLDR errors.
I redid the boot loader with easybcd, but I still get the errors, I've copied NTLDR and NTDETECT.com on just about every drive except my card reader (haha).
Can someone walk me through getting XP booting again? I tried doing the /fix mbr thing but I can't remember the password for the XP install to get into the recovery console.
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I m currently running windows xp sp2 with windows vista sp1. i just want to know if i can dual-boot windows 7 with windows xp?
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Nov 2, 2009
I have the 32 bit Windows 7 on my computer because it seems to work better than the 64 bit. However like any computer geek I want the 64 bit and with a removable Hard Drive I can put the 64 bit on the other Hard Drive. Once I get tired of my 32 bit I'm sure I'll build the 64 bit but once I do this I don't think Microsoft is going to like it if I plug in my 32 bit once I register the 64 bit? What do you think?
Now I want to build a new computer but what good is the quad? Does any software run on it using all 4 CPU's?
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Feb 8, 2009
I had one SATA 250 MB HD with 3 partitions and Windows XP on first.All work fine until I added a second HD 40MB ATA as IDE master.I have instaled Windows 7 on new HD
and after that my PC wont boot normaly.Both Windows recognize ATA HD as disk 0 , SATA HD as disk 1(in disk managment).In XP boot.ini stand rdisk 0.When i tried to change it to rdisk 1 XP could not boot.
I am able to boot both Windows through bios utility which offers me to choose which HD to boot.When I choose ATA drive I get a screen offering Windows 7 and Windows XP.Windows.Windows 7 boots normaly , XP wont boot.How can I solve this problem?
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Nov 24, 2009
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I can't think of any work around, using ultramon and shrinking the main image isn't very good either due to it having both delay and a lower framerate even at the the highest systme usage settings. Can you guys think of any work arounds? I've tried saving the icon positions but then firefox still opens in the main monitor. I really would like to swap monitors on the fly with a hotkey and restore icons later.
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i need a little help with Windows 7 duel monitoring,
im running Windows 7 on my laptop, and want to hook up a 2nd stand alone monitor to the left hand side of my laptop.
i hooked the monitor in correctly but my laptop doesnt notice that the 2nd screen is plugged in.
any idea's what could be the problem ?
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Oct 26, 2009
I have dual monitors, one on my laptop and another bigger monitor for when I am docked and at the office.
Under XP I had it set so that when I closed the lid on my laptop, the lapto screen was shut off and all files that were subsequently opend were opened to the main big screen.
It appears now that when I close the lid the screen stays on and if there was a window showing on the laptop when the lid is closed it does not automatically switch to the big monitor. It used to under XP. Is there a way to duplicate this behavior in Windows 7?
There are times when I want to use just one monitor and shut the monitor built-in to the lap top - off. Is there an easy way to do so?
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May 16, 2009
I have WIN 7 as main os.
I need to put XP on for a dual boot (have a program that I need to run in a 32 bit os).
How do I get the dual boot going? I have 15 gig free partition. 7 is already installed.
Do I just boot up with windows xp disc, and go from there?
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May 20, 2009
I have the following problem.
After installing Windows 7 on my XP machine I tried to start "Earlier version of Windows" I only get a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of my screen.
Starting Windows 7 goes fine.
Here's how my hard disk looks like: (see attachement)
On the volume with no drive letter are all the boot files, XP and 7, alongside.
On D: is XP and on C: is Windows 7.
Strange thing is that I don't remember to have that volume with no drive letter before I installed windows 7.
There is content on that volume which belonged to D: if I remember correctly.
Further more Windows 7 has the status of Boot but not Active, the nameless volume is System and Active and both are primary partitions. D: is not.
So why can it boot Windows 7 and not XP?
I think that first the nameless volume is being accessed and it starts whatever has been chosen in the boot menu but it can only start Windows 7 maybe because Volume c is marked as Boot and on a primary partition and XP is none of that.
The installation of Windows 7 created this.
I have installed Easybcd.
Will this help me to solve the problem?
If I can'tmake the dual boot to work how can I safely remove Windows 7 and boot XP to have it another go?
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Jan 9, 2011
Windows 7 on AMD motherboard,Its 32 bit Windows 7, but 64bit system?
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I'm a newbie to beta software, so please forgive my ignorance on this subject.
I wanna see what all the buzz about 64bit is about.
I downloaded and installed RC 7100 32bit and running it with a dual boot to XP sp3 32bit.
Could I dump the RC7100 32 bit (by reformatting the partition) and installing the 64 bit version and still dual boot with XPsp3 32?
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Jan 27, 2011
I want to fully format my hard disk and make new partitions out of it, then, install windows 7 on one partition and windows XP on the other. Since i will have zero access to internet whilst doing so, can you link me to a page which can fully explain to me what i have to do?I already have Win 7 on C, but i cant format, shrink or extend C or D.
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Jun 27, 2009
I had vista(on C: ) and xp(on D: ) running on my PC. I easily setup a dual boot for vista and xp using bcdedit.
i installed 7 by formatting the drive (C: ) where vista was installed. I read on a blog that the setup will automatically detect the presence of xp and show it as "Earlier version of windows "in boot menu. but after installation there was no such option and windows 7 directly started.
I ran cmd as administrator and used the following command to add xp (as i did in vista) the commands were
bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "Microsoft Windows XP"
bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=c:
bcdedit /set {ntldr} path
tldr
bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast Now my boot manager looks like :
Now an option for windows xp appears but on selecting it i get an error missing ntldr
so i copied the ntldr, ntdetect.com from the xp installation disc to the root of D and created a boot.ini
but that didn't help now the system restarts when i select Windows xp
have i missed some step or what? can any one help?
(I have windows xp Sp3 installed)
Folder options:
(all hidden files are shown)
D: Xp is installed here (i have deleted the ntldr and ntdetect.com and the boot.ini files that i had copied )
(after 7's installation none of these files were present the drive was same as it is in the screen shot)
C: 7 is installed here
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Aug 11, 2009
1. I made a clean install of XP x86 on my IDE 80GB HDD. I have created a new 20GB partition (C) for my XP, and with the remaining space I created another one for 7 (I didn't formatted it, but it was created on the XP installation process).
2. Once installed, I also installed all the essential drivers for my XP to run (video, chipset) but DID NOT installed the SP3 (just on SP2 with no minor patches).
3. I've booted the computer several times before changing the BIOS again to look for my DVD ROM for a 7 install.
4. Began installing the 7 on D: (that partition I've created on XP installation, and no, I didn't installed it on XP partition C.
5. Installed 7 normally, booted again, but without changing my BIOS - it was still showing that "Press any key to start from the DVD". Windows 7 loaded fine, but without the OS selection screen.
(edit) I've passed by this step and did NOT hit any key so I booted 7 from HDD
6. Activated my 7, restarted, changed the BIOS to boot from the HDD.
7. Now XP booted up, without showing OS Selection screen.
8. Changed the BIOS again, went for the 7 startup repair, it didn't found XP, neither seemed to repair anything, even when I did fixMBR and fixBoot. I've tried it several times with no success.
Attention points:
When I choose to boot from the cd and wait for it to pass by do HDD, I have a Seven boot;
When I choose to boot directly from the HDD, it gives me XP;
I also tried fixing the 7 bootloader with easybcd with no results.
(edit, and this one seems to be important) When I boot from 7, 7 partition is C:. When I boot from XP, XP partition is ALSO C:.
So. Any ideas?
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Aug 12, 2009
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I have ordered the Win 7 home premium upgrade and would like to know if it would be possible to install it on the D drive using the 64 bit version. I am guessing that both 32 and 64 are on the same DVD and will give me the option?
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Sep 19, 2009
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Main Memory
• Supports two memory banks using two 184-pin DDR DIMM.
• Supports up to 2GB PC3200 (DDR400) SDRAMs.
• Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM.
I want to get dual channel ram. Can anyone tell me if they know it is guaranteed to work? Or do you need a special motherboard for dual channel?
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Well I like OSX for browsing and such.. How could I install OSX?Would i need a seperate hdd or just partition my drive?
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