Dumb Question: What about a voodoo2? I have them running SLI on my machine and 99% of my old games run fine on it! Of course that won't salve VESA problem will it?
Tooo little coffee to be coherent...

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

Has anybody tried putting two videocards (pci+agp) together on the same machine?

Yes, and it works just fine.

Running WinXP, BTW. Will it work? HOW? How can you switch from one to the other? via "init display first" in bios?

The BIOS setting will control which card is used to show the boot messages, and this card will (or at least should) be the first one to be used by Windows XP. After you setup Windows to use two cards you can select which one will be your primary display (the task bar will appear only in the primary one), and although I have never tested I believe this will be the one used by full screen programs.

I just want to try this as I've got some PCI cards lying around, even some Cirrus Logic ones. Do I need two monitors?

Yes, unless you want to shuffle cables all the time.

By the way, you can also have two (or more) PCI video cards. Windows should use them in slot order (PCI slot 1 is usually the one closer to the AGP slot).

Regards,

MajorGrubert, thank you for your reply. You seem a quite knowledgeable person.