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
MAV

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
Use a new driver detonator 30+ and you may have to shuffle the PCI cards around if you have a'hardware conflict
Works under 9x, W2k and XP
Make sure all the cards are using the same driver version... you may have to manually udate each driver in some cases

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