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Before You Begin
This appendix discusses an example of using two multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based
graphics cards in one computer running Windows XP.
Note: When running Windows with multiple cards (i.e., two or more NVIDIA GPU-
based graphics card are installed in your computer), the same NVIDIA driver
(version) must be installed for each card.
Before Installing the NVIDIA ForceWare Graphics Display
Driver
1 Make sure you have an AGP slot and a PCI slot on your computer.
2 Install the appropriate NVIDIA GPU-based PCI and AGP cards.
3 Make sure the graphics cards are securely seated in their slots.
4 Connect the appropriate displays to each card, making sure that the cable
connectors are securely attached to the graphics cards.
5 Turn on your displays.
Examples and Setup
The examples in this appendix show the following NVIDIA-based graphics cards
and configurations.
• The GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU-based graphics card is an AGP graphics card
supporting multi-display nView functionality.
• The GeForce4 MX GPU-based graphics card is a PCI graphics card supporting
nView multi-display functionality.
Note: Depending on the number of PCI slots in your computer, you can install
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Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards (Non-SLI Configuration)
more than one PCI graphics cards. These examples use only one PCI
graphics card.
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