micgrech Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Hi Guys and Gals, Just some help please with an additional graphics card that I have installed to use as a secondary graphics card to run an additional monitor for GPS etc. This thing is doing my head in!! I have a GTX 285 graphics card which I would like to use as the main graphics card. I also purchased and installed a Nvidia 6200 PCI card to use an additional monitor (now all up 3 monitors to run FSX) My system is recognising the 6200 as my primary graphics card. When I run FSX I get an error message saying that the 6200 does not meet the requirements to run FSX. Does anyone have any idea on how to switch the stupid thing to recognise the GTX 285 as my primary display adaptor?? All suggestions are greatly appreciated! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Right click on your desktop and select "Properties" at the bottom then the far right "Settings" and in the Check boxes lower left tick use this as primary in the GTX285 . your done. You might like to actually check that the PCIe is set primary in the BIOS too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgrech Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Right click on your desktop and select "Properties" at the bottom then the far right "Settings" and in the Check boxes lower left tick use this as primary in the GTX285 . your done. You might like to actually check that the PCIe is set primary in the BIOS too. Mate, sorry to be a pain, can you post a screen shot for me??? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Crickey I thought I explained it pretty well. OK Select the Properties Tab from the Pop-Up that appears when you right click on a vacant area of your Desktop. Then in the Properties Pop-Up select the far right tab Settings Then finally click on one of the indicated Monitors listed as GTX 285 Screens and select "Use this device as the Primary monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 For Windows7, hit "Start' and type 'Display settings' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgrech Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Ok, Here is what I am seeing. Under windows 7 I don't have the drop down list where I can select the graphics card. If I click on Advanced, I see the below. To me the main display is already set up as GTX 285 graphics card. I don't know why it is not picking this up as the main card. When I try to run FSX I receive the below error. I have no idea how to resolve!! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Right Click on the Desk Top and select the Resolution option Now in the Top right of the upper box click on the Identify button, this should pop up another set of options.. Now with the monitors identified Select one of the monitors that belongs to the GTX 285 and below on the left there should be a box labeled Make Main Display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgrech Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Sorry Maurice_King, but clicking on Detect does not bring up another set of options!! The monitor plugged into the GTX285 card is already set as the Main Display! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Sounds like remote admin session might be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steved Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 im not sure if this would fix it but maybe swap the card in their pci slots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 No mate one is PCI and the other is PCIe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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