No Secondary Video

[Kon]

I bought a Nvidia  Geforce2 MX/MX 400, thing is that it is only letting the first display show even with the secondary one connected.  If I have the second one connected by its self then its shows on it.  Not sure driver wise.   Windows XP Pro

[Geek-9pm]

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[Kon]

no I didnt, do I have to have the driver installed though?

[quaxo]

Yes. In most (if not all) cases, you need to have the driver installed for the video card to run multiple displays properly.

[Kon]

true but, do I have the right one though?

[quaxo]

I don't know. Do you?

[Kon]

thats the reason why I am asking :/

[quaxo]

Well, did you install the driver that came on the CD with the card? If you didn't, did you download from either Nvidia or the manufacturer of the card the driver for it? I can't answer that question for you.

[Kon]

I did    It said something like it was a legancy driver or something.  I ened up useing there auto feature an got the one for the card off there site.  Still the samething is happen, probably going to get a replace soon.

[quaxo]

I did    It said something like it was a legancy driver or something.  I ened up useing there auto feature an got the one for the card off there site.  Still the samething is happen, probably going to get a replace soon.

What said something about a legacy device? Whose auto feature did you use to download which driver from which site?

As long as you keep giving vague replies, there's not a lot we can do. Did you download the driver from the manufacturer's site as was recommended? And if the manufacturer didn't have the driver, did you go to the Nvidia site to get it?

If you tell us who made the card, we can help you locate the correct driver. Nvidia doesn't make cards, they only make the chips. Other companies, such as Gigabyte or PowerColor or Sapphire, make the actual cards. That is who you should get the driver from. If they don't have it, or no longer exist, then you should get the driver from Nvidia and hope it works well enough with that particular card.

[Kon]

There Site    I said that is what I done.  Nvidia.  Like I said it found the driver an I installed it with only the samething to still occur

[quaxo]

There Site    I said that is what I done.  Nvidia.  Like I said it found the driver an I installed it with only the samething to still occur

If something "found" the driver, you didn't get it straight from Nvidia. What is finding this driver? You keep saying "it", but that doesn't tell us what it is. If it's Windows that's finding and updating your driver, it's likely Windows is downloading the wrong driver as it's known to do from time to time.

Who actually makes the video card?

[Kon]

There is an automatic scanner on Nvidia's Site.  As I said Nvidia :/

[patio]

There is an automatic scanner on Nvidia's Site.  As I said Nvidia :/

And that's where your going wrong...
As Quaxo asked...who makes the card ? ?

[quaxo]

As I said Nvidia :/

You said "there site". Other than incorrectly spelling the possessive pronoun "their", you never said what it referred to until now, so all we can do is guess.

As I said, Nvidia does not make graphics cards. Nvidia only makes the graphics chips. They sell those chips, as well as the basic specifications for making the card, to other companies that actually produce the cards. It's been a while, but the GeForce2 MX 400 I had back in the day wouldn't run correctly on the generic driver from Nvidia.

So, again... who made the actual card?