K7D Master-L + ATI 9700 Pro won't boot WinXP

I posted about this a while ago, but none of the responses helped.
I can't boot into Windows XP. It gets to the black "progress bar" screen and stops. I can boot into Safe Mode, and when booting using the logging, it stops when loading the "agpgart" file.
I'm currently running Windows 2000 and still have an odd problem. The system detects two video cards: "RADEON 9700 PRO" and "RADEON 9700 PRO - Secondary".
I'm using the latest BIOS for the board, and latest drivers.
Any ideas?

I just finished redoing the drivers, and still have two display adapters listed. The only difference I can find, other than the name is this: one device is listed as "PCI bus 1, device 5, function 1" and the other is "PCI bus 1, device 5, function 0". The dual-output theory is probably correct, I never thought of that because I've never used the DVI output (I only have a CRT monitor), nor have I ever used a computer with a dual-head video card. I guess I assumed it would still show up as one device. Even if thats not correct, its good enough for me to forget about it! :P
When I was installing WinXP, it was a clean install. I've never seen a "100% successful" Windows upgrade, so I steer clear of doing that. I know enough to partition my drives so I don't have to reinstall everything or lose data through reinstalls. I recently got a new XP CD, one that includes Service Pack 1a. My other CD is the original release, so maybe that will help somehow. I was actually thinking about going the upgrade route, since full install doesn't work. I have no other PCI cards in the computer. I'm using the on-board NIC and audio.

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P.S.: There is a bug with this forum software and apostrohpies. Every time you preview your post it inserts escape characters ("\") before apostrphies, and also inserts escape characters for these escape characters, so quickly you have something like "\\\\\\\'" where you want "'".

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