Dual head monitors in Vista

long story short, I used to run 2 monitors with an old ati radeon 7000 card under XP, worked fine. I went to Vista with the new machine a couple of years ago and didn't bother setting the dual monitors up.

I want to run dual monitors again so got hold of another radeon 7000 knowing it worked OK before, only I can't find a sodding way to make it run in Vista - no drivers, not Vista compliant, usual crap..

I've ordered an vNidia geforce 8400GS card and DVI adaptor, I think this should work OK. what I wanted to know is:

anyone any experience of setting this lot up in vista ? I've downloaded the nVidia drivers from their website - should this lot include support for multi view / dual monitor setups ?

anyone any idea how I might make the Radeon work in vista ? or should I give up on that completely.

PS, I'm not a gamer, couldn't care less for GPU speeds and all that crap, I just need the desktop space!

ATi should have the drivers on their website for that card, if not, try this site for drivers http://www.guru3d.com/. Both cards should support configuration for which monitor is primary and secondary so I can't see a problem with that. Being a Vista novice I wouldn't know where exactly to look.

I have tried already, it's written in a few places that Vista does not support the development of drivers for hardware it deems to old to work well enough!

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Originally Posted by Scoff

I have tried already, it's written in a few places that Vista does not support the development of drivers for hardware it deems to old to work well enough!

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which is 'microsoft' for bend over and touch your toes:eek:

Download windows 7 Beta and give it ago, if you get no joy with vista.

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Originally Posted by phase i 16 v turbo

Download windows 7 Beta and give it ago, if you get no joy with vista.

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Anyone running this at present?

Whats your views?

did u only install the display driver for the ati card or did u install the catylist driver?

there is a set up section in the ati catylist to run dual monitors , ive only tried it once and done it with no probs and im running vista , i was not aware the op system would have a bearing on this ?

ah, now I read about the catalyst set, and came to the conclusion I needed the RC1 set, which I downloaded from ati. However, it says that it cannot find any suitable hardware installed in my machine, and does not list radeon 7000 in it's compatability list. I tried to learn which cards wetre supported by which catalyst suite, but got nowhere, fast. Or, 7000 is just not supported maybe. I came across someone on a forum claiming his worked with the 7200 drivers in vista, but I could not find 7200 drivers for vista either.

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Originally Posted by Scoff

ah, now I read about the catalyst set, and came to the conclusion I needed the RC1 set, which I downloaded from ati. However, it says that it cannot find any suitable hardware installed in my machine, and does not list radeon 7000 in it's compatability list. I tried to learn which cards wetre supported by which catalyst suite, but got nowhere, fast. Or, 7000 is just not supported maybe. I came across someone on a forum claiming his worked with the 7200 drivers in vista, but I could not find 7200 drivers for vista either.

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it is a fairly old card tbh , the first pc i bought had a ati 9800 radeon card and that was in 2000, infact coming to thinkabout it i have an old ati x850 agp thats just lying there yours if you want it ? bit of a step up from the 7000 :)

:D yes, it's oldskool, like me. I should not be suprised that it isn't supported, but still irritates me though :(

I should have this nVidia geforce 8400GS thing tomorrow, still an older card but atleast supported by Vista, but if that fails to work also then I'll let you know :) ofcourse, would have to be dual head ? I think not all cards that have 2 monitor sockets are dual head ? I lost track of current PC architecture in about 1993 when everybody bought Windows :scared:

sorted! 8400GS card worked fine, and the drivers from nVidia's website worked fine too, it even came supplied with an "nVidia control panel" making it easy to setup multi displays :cool:

good work :cool: HaPpY dAyS