[AmarikenGothyk]

I just set up a new machine, and windows is detecting 2 video cards.

Radeon 9800 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro - Secondary
I only have one card installed.
Also, it's detecting 2 monitors, when I only have 1 installed.

Is this normal? There's not 2 set in the ATI control panel.

Also, my desktop, I have it set to a black backgound. It isnt 'black' but more of a dark, green tinted grey, until I open a window, like say display properties. When I do this, the color returns to normal. It's annoying to say the least. I've tried reinstalling both vid card drivers and monitor drivers. the monitor driver fixed it, until I watched a dvd movie on it, now it does the same thing.

My system is:
p4 3.0 ghz
1 Gig Corsair XMS Twin 3200 ram
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256 mb video
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Mobo
SB Audigy 2 Platinum EX Sound
2 WD 120 7,200 RPM hard drives
1 WD 36 gig Raptor SATA boot drive
Latest Asus Bios

 

[johnwill]

Go into device manager and uninstall both monitors and both video cards. Reboot and load the drivers when prompted, and it should settle down and only have one of each.

 

[AmarikenGothyk]

I did that, it just picks the same ones up again

 

[johnwill]

Well, it was worth a shot. That usually gets rid of duplicate hardware discoveries.