OK. You have the best top of the line graphics card, best mother board and just like dart you have 14 monitors. Let's say you have Ninjatrader just like I do. You open up 14 charts (one on each of the monitor) or even more than 14. Thing is, application is going to crash. Especially if you run multiple indicators on say historical data and have tick charts etc. Is it only me? or what are other people doing to address this issue i.e. what if the application say nijatrader or tradestation or whatever you are using cannot handle this many charts? What do do?
So the question is not what graphics card will support multiple monitors but Which application can handle multiple monitors?
My firepro 2460 did not work... I took it to a technician and when he installed it on my mother board it did not recognize it. However when he tried the same thing on another computer having ASUS sabertooth, it instantly recognized it. Of course, he was plugging to a monitor using VGA adapter. But then, the same criteria did not work on my ASUS p8z77-V LX mother board.
Any body else having issues with those dell monitors bought from ebay?? I noticed that only those 2 monitors go blank very frequently.
Did he try the card in different slots? It might be a bad slot, or did he try a different graphics card in the same slot as the FirePro 2460 to verify the slot was not bad? Also, maybe the onboard video had to be disabled first, for it to work? Did it show POST messages, such as bios welcome screen, or no signal at all when installed? Did he then try the onboard video and see if it had an a signal with the FirePro installed? Did it beep, to signify error messages? Also, assuming onboard video had an output, could he boot into Windows to see if the card was showing up in the Device Manager?
Both slots are working...Reason I know is because now I have 2 ASUS 210 silent cards in those 2 slots...
When he installed that firepro card nothing came up i.e. mother board did not recognize it. But he was able to boot the computer in safe mode but that was no good since he was unable to install the drivers. And then when he tried to boot it under normal mode i saw the windows sign but it was always booting to perpetuity. Looks like this is the same problem that you had experienced with installing the drivers. Not sure. I have come to the conclusion that it all depends on the mobo. My mobo didn't like firepro but sabertooth mobo liked it and took it.
I use TradeStation for all my charts. I have 3 main desktops running TS and charts. Each computer drives 8 to 10 monitors. Each monitor I use a different "desktop" (TradeStation's terminology of a container). Each "desktop" contains about 4 to 8 charts. 10 desktops = about 80 charts max, total, on one computer. Some charts are 30 second charts, 20 second charts, some are tick charts. Happy as a clam. Has been for 3+ years. TradeStation charting is usually reliable. Though there are occasional hiccups.
Mine always booted into windows fine, just didn't like the driver package until I reinstalled windows which allowed the drivers to install and it ran fine after that. Sounds like your windows install may have had problems with the FirePro, unlike the sabortooth windows install which may have been more recent and hence no problems. As you were able to boot in in safe mode I'd guess it was a windows issue more than hardware. Anyway, looks like you got a solution either way, as you got those Nvidia 210 cards.
So tradestation is better if some one is using multiple monitors? NT is no good for that because it simply crashes. How many monitors do you have? since you stated you have 8-10 monitors connected to each "desktop". So I am assuming you have more than 10 monitors? Just out of curiousity what all do you trade?