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Thank you for your reply Pete, I will give this a try.

the motherboard is a JetWay JM26GT4 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard and the video card is an old ATI Rage 8mb PCI

Yeah i'm very sure it's PCI and not PCI express, I wanted to use an old PCI card because the 2nd monitor will do nothing more then display a database input screen. I have since done the same thing to my work computer (windows xp pro) .... I have an on board Nvidia 6100 and i borrowed a PCI card which is an Nvidia 6200. At first i was getting the same thing whereas one of the cards would get disabled but then i removed the drivers for the on board card and plugged the monitor into the PCI card and then that became the primary display, it asked for the drivers when it got into windows and whal

I recently built a computer and the motherboard choice was one that has on board video. I planned on installing another video card (PCI) and having a dual monitor setup in windows vista home but when i try to do that the card gets disabled in windows, I tried this with 3 different cards and the result is the same. I forget the exact message but it leads me to believe that windows is confused thinking that the drivers for the second card are not the right ones for the first card ?!? I have tried everything, I disabled the on board video card and put in two pci cards and i get the same thing