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Detection of secondary video card


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TOswift

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hey fellas,

Id like to thank you in advance for your help. I recently formatted my comp and reinstalled windows XP. Everything was going smoothly when suddenly my computer would detect and install a new VGA device every time I booted up. When I went into hardware manager, I was told that i had 2 X1900XTs running one primary, and a secondary. But there is only one X1900XT running on my rig. I really do not know what to do. I tried disabling the secondary, but every time i boot-up, it detects this new mysterious VGA controller and installs the drivers...ending off with "this device may not be working properly." Apart from using system resources, and adding signficantly to the boot-up time. It has become worrying and frustrating. Any advice would be appreciated. Thnx a lot.

My System:

Windows XP SP2 - fully updated
ASUS A8N-SLI
X2 3800 @ 2GHz
2GB DDR400 OCZ Platinum
X1900XT 512MB
200GB ATA 7200RPM Seagate - Mass Storage
40GB SATA 10000RPM Raptor - Primary; Windows, Program Files, nForce4 files, etc
Note: my mobo does not have an on-board VGA adapter.
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I assume seeing as that card has two monitor ports it is installing the drivers for both.
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it never did that before. Also, if that is the case, then why does it install the secondary vid drivers everytime at boot-up.
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