Dual video cards in hp P7-1228 fails to start

installing 2 PCI-e video cards, switched to legacy startup and 6 beeps are now replaced with stuck boot screen and a small beep every few minutes as the system seems to go nowhere and is unresponsice to 'pressing escape for startup menu'
I am willing to abandon the integrated card to use the two new ones.
they are identical Zotac GeForce GT 730 1 GB cards, they have no external power requirements

Big Dave, I am so grateful you wrote back! I do support for a living too but this one has me stumped.
Zotac is the maker, it is a NVIDIA gefource GT 730 1 GB 64bit DDR3 card requires no external power
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LZKWVJW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Machine has Win7 64 bit, 8GB ram
with one card it goes to the blue HP boot screen and freezes, after a few minutes there's a rather wimpy beep [sounds like a restart beep] but the screen stays frozen for another 30 seconds or so then goes to black screen and then nothing. Fans etc. still running but it's gone...
switched to legacy startup and 6 beeps are now replaced with stuck boot screen and a small beep every few minutes as the system seems to go nowhere and is unresponsice to 'pressing escape for startup menu'
Can't think of any mor to tell you but am totally hopful you'll have some ideas!!
Mahalo
Gill

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Dual video cards in hp P7-1228

installing 2 PCI-e video cards, switched to legacy startup and 6 beeps are now replaced with stuck boot screen and a small beep every few minutes as the system seems to go nowhere and is unresponsice to 'pressing escape for startup menu'

Hi,
How can you install 2 video card when it only has ONE slot do you mean you add one video card?
Video graphicsIntel Graphics Media Accelerator HD Integrated graphics (DX10.1)*Integrated video is not available if a graphics card is installed.
Supports PCI Express x16 graphics cards
DVI and VGA ports (both ports can be used at the same time)
Source: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03209846
Your machine has only 300W PSU, I would check the minimum power requirement for the new card.
Regards.
BH
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How good is a Macbook Pro with dual video cards for gaming?

I've been a PC guy my whole life (aside from my iPhone which I love). My gf has been pushing me to try out a mac and considering how my PC laptops have a pretty good track record of dying on me or encountering some other problems after a year or two, I can't help but consider making the investment. The only thing is, I'm a big gamer and usually get the latest games. I'm not super tech savvy though I do my research and get a sense of what kind of specs are better and worse.
In terms of gaming, I always assumed that more ram = better. In that sense, I'm a little put off that even the most expensive MacBook Pro only comes with 4 gigs of ram (which is what my year and a half old laptop has now) especially when it seems most newer laptops have 8 gigs minimum for a fraction of the price (and 16 gigs if you're willing to spend as much as you would on the most expensive macbook pro). Does RAM somehow work differently on a Mac or is it truly that little?
Also, how does the whole dual video card thing work, does that mean I'd be having the power of those two cards put together?
Personally, I've been leaning towards the Asus G53SX-NH71 because I can buy it for less than the cost of the cheapest macbook pro and as far as gaming purposes go it seems to have more power than even the most expensive Macbook which costs over double the price.
Am I missing something here? Do the dual video cards really bring that much to the table or for gaming purposes am I better off with a PC?
Thanks.

I've been watching this forum for years, and I'll have to say that gamers are not a big group around here. A few things. First, getting 8GB of RAM for the MacBook Pro is cheap. Most people either don't care, pay Apple to do it, or, like me, DIY. The max you put in a MBP is 8GB, so no 16GB, unless you were looking at the iMac or MacPro.
Second, there is no dual video card in a MacBook Pro. There is an integrated video card, an Intel HD3000, which shares RAM with the CPU, or a discrete video card, an AMD, various versions on different MBP's. The Intel is for low battery usage. The AMD is more powerful, and it's to be used when you've got power. The video card has more applications than just gaming, but also in video and photo editing.
No one here is going to talk you into one platform or another. If you are only going to game in Windows, then it's a waste to get a Mac. If you're going to game in Windows but want the Mac side to do everything else, the build quality and elegance of the Mac will far exceed most products out there. You can run Windows in Boot Camp natively, and as I understand, gamers love it, because the Mac is actually a better Windows machine than most Windows machines. But I don't play games, so I have no proof.
So the choice is yours. And we could argue all day long about the side by side comparison of a cheap Windows machine vs. the Mac. You are using the price vs. price comparison that is a false dichotomy, ignoring how one values various features. For example, the trackpad on a MacBook Pro far exceeds (and I mean light year exceeds) anything on any other laptop out there.
I spent 10 minutes answering your question. I'm not debating you on x vs. y. The choice is totally on what you're going to do. Most of us are trying to contribute to the world, so gaming is low on the needs list.

After Effects is NOT using the full Twelve GB of memory on my Mac Pro late 2013 dual video cards

I would like to know if there is a reason why AE CC12 and CC13 (2014) is not using the full amount of video card memory on my MP late 2013. It's six GB per freaking card I invested in and its not accessing it.
Is there a work around this issue?

Why shouldn't it. When I upgraded to this new Mac Pro late 2013 with its dual video cards. Premier turned into a blasting fast editor. I no longer need to render my edited cuts and the scrubbing of preview and timeline footage is phenomenal. The only performance boost I've seen in AE with this new system is in rendering and I can't even say its double as fast in comparison to Premier or Encoder and its an 8-Core system with 32GB of ram. Everything else is flying.
So again to answer your why should it. I rebuttal with "Why shouldn't it". The other two mentioned programs are using GPU resources to improve performance why is AE so behind the curve.
I'm not the only one asking why. I was in the audience at a Dmala meeting here in LA with Todd Kopriva and Al Mooney previewing AE and Premier 2014.
People kept asking Todd about performance boost in between questions about new features. Todd finally just asked what do you prefer a couple of new features or performance boost. Everyone wanted performance boost over new features. If you think I'm making this up go ask Todd Kopriva.

OS X 10.10.1 won't recognize the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT side of 9400m/9600m dual video card

My 15" mid 2009 MBP 2.8 ghz 8g ram won't recognize the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT side of 9400m/9600m dual video card since upgrading to yosemite 1010.1 When I try to choose the better performance option I get black screen and a reboot loop. Any ideas why or solutions as to how to make the better video card work?

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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Dual video cards and PS4

Hi I was wondering if anybody else is having this problem.
I am running a mac pro with dual video cards (8800 and 2600) and I cant select opengl in photoshop cs4. if i disconnect one of the cards it works.
Is it not possible to use dual cards with PS4
Any help?
David

well, I have two graphic cards of the same kind but with Photoshop CS4 open, I can only view the images on the first monitor: if I put the image on the 2nd display it shows a black window :-((( maybe a bug of the software?!?

Dual Video Cards with 845e max2

I cant seem to get dual video cards working with my new MSI 845e max2 board.
i have one AGP TNT2 64 this card works fine i have tried two PCI video cards.
i have also flashed the bios to the Latest release.
XP with SP1 finds the second video card but says device will not start, i have also tryed different PCI slots, still the same error.
I would love to get this working due to doing mostly a lot of Video Editing can some one please shed some light on this.
Many thanks
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I have only setup dual Video on 845 Max but
use nvidia chipset on all cards PCI tnt2 m64s and any AGP that is nvidia
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PSCS4 crash - dual video cards - steps

Many here may know my tale of woe when it comes to Photoshop Cs4 and dual video cards.
I finally solved 95% of the crashing issues by installing twin video cards to drive 3 monitors. But I was still experiencing a crash once or twice a day. I've finally determined exactly what was causing those occasional crashes and thought I'd post it here (as well as file a bug report) so others would be aware of it.
I drive 3 monitors - 24" Dell Ultrasharp, 30" Apple HD Cinema, 20" Apple Cinema off of 2-nVidia 8800GT cards in a 2007 2.66Ghz Quad MacPro with OS 10.5.7 and a Wacom Intuos 4 Large tablet with the latest driver installed (6-2-2.1 or whatever it is). 24" and 30" Monitors share a single video card and 20" is connected to the second video card.
Photoshop CS4 has all OpenGL features turned on.
I use the 30" monitor for the main window plus the toolbar and Control Bar. All other panels are arranged on the 20" monitor to the right. 24" Monitor not really active when Photoshop is in use. I do not have documents set up to open as tabs, I specifically have turned that off.
An application crash is easily reproduced with the following steps:
Open two documents on Monitor 1 -- call them DocA and DocB - Color mode, bit depth, etc is of no relevance. Floating windows, no tabs.
Have the Layers Panel open on Monitor 2.
With DocA the active window on Monitor 1 and DocB visible behind DocA somewhere -- i.e. not tabs, but floating windows -- click and drag a layer from the Layers Panel on Monitor 2 to the window for DocB on Monitor 1.
Spinning beach ball for about 20 seconds
Crash.
Crash happens in every instance.
What I have yet to test:
Turning off OpenGL features
Making the 20" and 30" share the same video card
Hopefully this info is of some use to others with multiple video cards.

I do not think this is likely to be confirmed as a photoshop issue as it is just as likely an issue with the Apple monitors which are notorious
for going belly up.
But most important it is curious as to why one has two cards and three monitors if one is not doing motion graphics, just curious. And then why three computer monitors.
And in order to make this an issue with the three monitors and two cards and photoshop you would have to remove the second card and the third monitor
to see if the crash no longer occurs. If the crash still occurs it would then not be an issue with the card more than likely as you would still have the drivers for the third monitor on your system.
I have two monitors but seldom use the second for panels I would prefer to use it for preview of the entire image when retouching details on the main monitor. Hate to go back and forth from one monitor and the other.
I don't necessarily doubt that this could be a bug with photoshop and the cards and monitor configuration or it is a n Apple problem for their support of two graphic cards, which I do not think Apple promises or Adobe for that matter. I think it is a problem that has to be tested one several different systems in order for it to be pin down.
So you need other users with the same monitors and cards and of course your model Mac which is the same as mind the original MacPro 2.66Ghz model with those same monitors and upgrade cards. Of course you also need users with similar configurations but different models of displays and Macs and graphic cards to make certain it does or does not happen on other configurations.
I know you are not saying it is photoshop's problem but there is no way at present from what you state to pin it down to anything specific.
For instance if you turn on the third monitor and put some panels or a third document on it does that stop the crash? If no then it doesn't tell you much but if yes then would the second card have anything to do with this crash?
You might or might not get my point.

Is there a fix for MAC Pro with Dual video cards that randomly logs off and on?

From my readings on the Internet this seems to be a know problem. That even furthers my frustrations with the latest OS X upgrades. So far on both my MACBOOK PRO and my MAC PRO it has been a major downgrade as both systems are no longer stable. Enough with my complaints...
Is there any plan to address this problem with the MAC PRO? I can't believe 10.8.1 didn't fix it. More can be read on it at:
http://jvm-technology.blogspot.com/2012/08/mac-pro-users-experiencing-random-log .html
Does anyone have work around to use dual screen monitors with the system? I have two video cards, the article says to remove one. Has this worked for anyone? Can I use dual screens with the one video card. Before I go messing around with these type of things I just want to be sure that this is a real fix. For the price of the cards and the system I really can't believe apple has this issue in the first place and has not fixed it.

Self-hosted add-ons have to be fixed for every new version of Firefox. Two to 6 months for updating an add-on is ridiculous for a program which has a new version release every '''6 weeks'''. If that extension was hosted at the official Add-ons website, Mozilla would take take care of "bumping" that extension, as long as it keeps working, for every new version of Firefox, as the new version is released.
See this thread from yesterday, I posted instructions about how to "bump" that extension for Firefox 7.<br />
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/884484
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/

Mac Pro Mountain Lion Kernel Panic Dual Video Cards

I've been getting constant panics since upgrading to Mountain lion on my 2009 Mac Pro.
Worth noting is I have dual GT 120 Video Cards and dual 30" LCDs. Every panic seems to be caused by com.apple.NVDAResman
This computer has been rock solid since 2009 and only after "updating" to Mountain Lion has it become unstable.
Was hoping 10.8.1 and 10.8.2 would fix the issued, but neither have. It's worse than ever. Crashing every day.
Already reinstalled the OS, tested the RAM, etc. No change. Still crashes everyday.
What should I do? It's really eating into productivity...
Thu Oct 4 01:19:28 2012
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8013251c07): "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.18.24/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.c pp:1424
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80cd253500 : 0xffffff8012e1d626
0xffffff80cd253570 : 0xffffff8013251c07
0xffffff80cd253600 : 0xffffff801324c9de
0xffffff80cd2536b0 : 0xffffff801324d60a
0xffffff80cd2536d0 : 0xffffff7f9356ca44
0xffffff80cd253740 : 0xffffff7f935d6d85
0xffffff80cd253790 : 0xffffff7f935d6eaf
0xffffff80cd2537e0 : 0xffffff7f935bc515
0xffffff80cd253860 : 0xffffff7f935ba815
0xffffff80cd2538a0 : 0xffffff7f935a9083
0xffffff80cd253950 : 0xffffff7f935d3177
0xffffff80cd253b40 : 0xffffff7f935d41d8
0xffffff80cd253c10 : 0xffffff7f94662419
0xffffff80cd253d50 : 0xffffff7f94661efe
0xffffff80cd253d60 : 0xffffff7f94639cfb
0xffffff80cd253d70 : 0xffffff7f94610580
0xffffff80cd253db0 : 0xffffff7f9460edc2
0xffffff80cd253de0 : 0xffffff7f94612eef
0xffffff80cd253e00 : 0xffffff7f93f972a4
0xffffff80cd253e20 : 0xffffff7f93f97237
0xffffff80cd253e50 : 0xffffff7f9462a8ac
0xffffff80cd253e80 : 0xffffff7f9460f506
0xffffff80cd253ed0 : 0xffffff7f9460d4c7
0xffffff80cd253ef0 : 0xffffff80132472a8
0xffffff80cd253f30 : 0xffffff8013245daa
0xffffff80cd253f80 : 0xffffff8013245ed9
0xffffff80cd253fb0 : 0xffffff8012eb26b7
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f93566 000->0xffffff7f93868fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.1)[9901C237-547C-3B52-99DE-C4870A19E2B5]@0xffff ff7f934d4000
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            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f9350f000
         com.apple.GeForce(8.0)[2E56ED9A-D848-3795-9E52-56BABDC9000C]@0xffffff7f94609000 ->0xffffff7f946cbfff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.0.0)[A4C53A36-22B6-3075-82B9-9DE612A9C015]@0xffffff7f935 66000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.5)[86DDB71C-A73A-3EBE-AC44-0BC9A38B9A44]@0xff ffff7f93552000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.1)[9901C237-547C-3B52-99DE-C4870A19E2B5]@0xffff ff7f934d4000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.5)[803496D0-ADAD-3ADB-B071-8A0A197DA53D]@0 xffffff7f9350f000
         com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(86.0.3)[578CEAAD-1465-3B29-B34F-09586288ED88]@0xfffff f7f93f93000->0xffffff7f93fa4fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
12C54
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333
Kernel slide:     0x0000000012c00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8012e00000
System model name: MacPro4,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 88312984104778
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I have the same problem

Dual video card on the m3985

I'm planing to upgrade my m3958 to it's limits for 3d rendering. This is the present rig. Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHzMemory: 8GB GPU : NVIDIA Quadro K2000 * Really i dont see much difference with this card. Though it is rated amongs the best. I dont know why* So what can i really add to make this machine more powerfull for 3d rendering.Thanks

More information on the Video Card integration problem, but no success yet.
I plugged in the second monitor; an Acer AL2223W LCD connected to one of the ports on the EVGA GeForce GT 610 card, to see if it would be recognized. It displays "No Signal" when turned on.
Did a search on the computer and found the AMD VISION Engine Control Center. That had a place to search for video equipment and the only thing it would find is the Samsung 213T.
I verified that the fan on the card is running so the card is getting power via the PCI-E slot.
The 2 outputs on the video card and the receptacle on the Acer are DVI-I dual link configuration with 24 pins + 4 pins at the flat pin for analog signals. The Samsung has a DVI-D dual link receptacle (24 pins).
The cable is DVI-D Single Link (18 pins + the flat pin). When I get another cable it will be DVI-D Dual Link.
It seems that the EVGA GeForce GT 610 video card is not being recognized by the mother board or not putting out a signal.
There was no driver disk with either the video card or the computer.
Power supply is 430 Watts and the card specs say the PS should be at least 300 Watts.
Do I need to do something with the BIOS or get a driver or setup disk for the board or card or do something with a jumper on the MB?
Do I need to get the DVI-D Dual Link cable to get the signal from the Video Card to the Monitor?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Bob Campbell

Dual video cards and render speed

Will two video cards render Motion content faster than a single card? More specifically, will dual cards help when the Motion files are used directly in FCP? Using Motion 2.1.2 and FCP 5.1.4

It depends on the graphics card driver. In the past, some cards, because of the way the driver was written, would divide available VRAM between two monitors. Over time though, drivers have gotten better, and this limitation is fading away. Even though, being that your graphics card has to render both the GUI for your OS (which is now loaded with effects as well) and Motion, keeping your screen real estate reasonable will allow your card to devote more resources to your project. Every pixel has to be rendered somewhere, whether its your project or the twenty translucent widgets you have loaded into your dashboard.
You won't see a "boost" by adding more VRAM, any more that you will see one by adding more system RAM. An increase in RAM equates to greater calculation space within which to work. For Motion this will show up as the ability to process more layers and real-time effects before a RAM preview is needed.
JM

Having Dual video cards or SLI in premiere CC will it make a difference?

I have the Geforce 980x
IF i have 2 in SLI
will it make any difference for my render time

See Tweakers Page - Exporting Style and Tweakers Page - What video card to use?
Do you have at least:
6-core or 8-core i7, overclocked to 4.2+ GHz or dual Xeon 10-core E5 v3 or better, and
64 or 128 GB RAM, and
Sustained transfer rates on all volumes of more than 400 MB/s, and
32+ unused PCIe-3.0 lanes available.
If the answer is YES to all 4 points above, then a dual GTX 980 may - just may - be beneficial if:
you render for previews all the time using accelerated effects, or
you export from source to destination with rescaling (i.e. 4K to HD or HD to SD), frame rate changes, frame blending almost always.
If your workflow does not include these two points almost all the time, having two video cards is a waste of money.
Using SLI is irrelevant for PR, since the video cards are treated as separate components. If anything, using the SLI bridge can only complicate matters and reduce performance, because of the inherent overhead of the SLI design.

G5 Quad and dual video card question

I purchased the Quad with the 7800 GT..I originally had 2 monitors on the one card. In doing so you are splitting the Vram into 125 meg per monitor..I don't want that since my CGI demands require more screen redraw from my working monitor..so I purchased another card for my pallet monitor..the 6600LE but some (core image effect not sure) don't work..i.e...the ripple effect
is there something about the 6600 LE that doesn't allow all of apples desktop eyecandy to work?
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.3)

That's interesting. The 6600 should support core image and everything else that it needs to. That's one of the cards Apple ships with the G5s. You have the 6600 in the eight lane slot right?
Perhaps it is something screwy with the way multiple video cards are handled?
If you want to try an experiment you could swap the 7800 and the 6600. Put the 6600 into the 16 lane slot and put the 7800 in the 8 lane slot. See if the 7800 then won't show the ripple effect.

The dual video cards of the 15" MBP

Hi,
I have a question about the onboards graphics and the other graphics card of the 15". Does it always use the shared graphics and then use the other card for extra processing? Or can you control which one it uses? Or does it change which one it uses depending on the need?
I ask because I use to be able to play Fallout 3 on Windows in Bootcamp on my iMac but not on my Macbook because the MacBook has shared graphics. Am I going to be stuck with this limitation again if I try this on a 15" MBP?
(it won't sway my choice of buying an MBP, but it will save me from dealing with the whole windoze thing again if it won't work anyway)

Hi Dilnik,
As I understand it, Dilznik, when running under bootcamp the GPU always defaults to the dedicated 9600 graphics processor. The "shared memory" 9400 graphics processor is not used at all.
In other words you should not have any problems with Fallout 3 on account of the presence of the Dual Graphics card with the "upmarket" versions of the current MBP15.
Cheers
Rod

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