Before You Begin; Before Installing The Nvidia Forceware Graphics Display Driver; Examples And Setup - Nvidia FX1300 - Quadro FX 128MB Dual DVI-I PCIe Video Card User Manual

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 graphics 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 graphics 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 display devices to each card, making sure that the cable
connectors are securely attached to the graphics cards.
5 Turn on your display devices.

Examples and Setup

The examples in this appendix show the following NVIDIA‐based graphics cards
and configurations.
• The Quadro FX 3000 GPU‐based graphics card is an AGP card supporting multi‐
display nView functionality.
• The GeForce4 MX GPU‐based graphics card is a PCI card supporting nView
multi‐display functionality.
Note: Depending on the number of PCI slots in your computer, you can install
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more than one PCI graphics cards. These examples use only one PCI
graphics card.
Using Two NVIDIA GPU-Based Graphics Cards
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