Well, I found an old GeForce MX 400 laying around, and am trying to get it to work with my XFX 8400GS to run two widescreen monitors.
I've got all my drivers up to date, but installing the MX 400 makes my computer bluescreen as soon as it reboots and XP finishes the "loading" animation. I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 here with 3GB of RAM, a 2.8 Ghz AMD Athlon x2.
When I load XP with the last good configuration, and go into the device manager, there's an exclamation mark and its properties menu says that "This device cannot start. (Code 10)"
So, HALP
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Anonymous2008-09-11 23:46
get a new PC and a 4950, cheap Rtard
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Anonymous2008-09-12 12:37
Either not enough power or bad drivers. Driver conflict?
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Anonymous2008-09-13 7:20
Check the list of supported devices for the nvidia driver that you are using very carefelly. Nvidia release their 'normal' driver for their modern cards but they also release a 'legacy' driver for their older cards. You may find that the 8400GS is only supported by the normal driver & that the MX400 is only supported by the legacy driver. Unfortunately you can't have both drivers in at the same time (at least not without some seriously dirty hacking). I ran in to the same problem when I tried to run my 8400GS with a Quadro NVS 280 (essentially a GF4).
Though, I have to ask, if you just want to do dual monitor why do you need to use the MX400? The 8400GS supports one DVI-I & one VGA conector, so you don't need the MX400 unless you've got some silly half-height 8400GS that only has space on the bracket for one connector.