help with dual monitors

[Bakuun]

i'm trying to connect a second monitor (and graphic card) to my computer, but it isn't going very well..
(thought to use it when programming - running the prog on the main monitor, and showing some debug info on the other, smaller, monitor.)

as it is now, i have a working geforce 4 agp card, and a working monitor connected to that card.
i then connected another graphic card to the comp, and a monitor to that card.
Windows (xp) found the card, but there was some error: 'The device cannot start - code 10'.
win can't find the new monitor at all.

somebody told me that an agp card doesn't work very well with a pci card - is that correct?
and i also have some very vague memory that a pci graphic card has to be inserted into the first (top) pci slot - is that correct? i couldn't put it in the fist slot due to the large fan on the geforce - there would only be a couple of mm between the pci card and the fan intake, and that doesn't seem too good.

so.

what we have is a non-working graphic card. i know it isn't broken - it works in other computers. winxp finds and installs the correct drivers, so that shouldn't be the problem.

any ideas?

 

[Bakuun]

(small addition)

this doesn't probably matter, but it is the proffesional version of winxp i have.

 

[Smokie]

Ok, a PCI card will work with a AGP card installed.

I am running a GeForce4 AGP card as well as a 16Mg Savage4 PCI card and have had no problems at all with this setup.

As for the monitor not working, have you gone into the Display Properties and put a tick in the "Use this device as the primary monitor" and a tick in the "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor."

Hope this helps.

 

[Smokie]

Forgot to mention that the PCI card can go into any of the PCI slots, not just the top one, mine is on the bottom slot of my board.

 

[Bakuun]

oh. thanks.

no, i haven't put a tick in those boxes - they aren't there.
i think that is due to the fact that the card isn't working properly, and that win hasn't found the new monitor.

no, wait.. now, i found a setting under 'nView' when clicking advanced in the settings tab.
however, there is only the 'make this monitor monitor' choice, and it is disabled (since there are no other monitors)