Try booting with 1 card only and make sure the drivers load okay (can you
switch to 800x600), turn off the system and insert your second card and boot
again.
Is your geforce2 mx400 AGP or PCI?
Is your nvidia riva tnt AGP or PCI?
Your Trident Blade 64 PCI is not multi-monitor supported.
Thanks
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"Tommy Vielkanowitz" <hair@vnet.net.com.org> wrote in message
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> Hello, I have a question that I hope someone here has an
> answer for. I was running Windows 2000 with multiple
> displays just fine. I had a geforce2 mx400 video card as
> my primary adapter, and a nvidia riva tnt as a 2nd
> display card, and everything was happy. I upgraded to
> Windows XP Pro, and the 2nd display adapter would give a
> Code 10: The device cannot start error message in the
> device manager. I have also tried this with a Trident
> Blade 64 PCI card as well. I have since reloaded
> Windows, and I still get the same error message. Just
> recently, I upgraded my motherboard and reloaded Windows
> again, and still I get the error. All of the drivers are
> digitally signed for the video cards.
>
> On a side note, XP also gives error code 26 when I try to
> install an Adaptec AHA 2940U SCSI card, but I really
> havent done much troubleshooting on this issue, and is
> really secondary to the dual display problem.
>
> --Tommy Vielkanowitz