Dell e1505/6400 + xfx ait radeon HD 6970 + (pe4c-ec060a v3.0) + windows vista/XP

[Tedmouse]

This is a work in progress for me, my friend who I lost contact with had the same exact setup as me. but his setup worked and I cannot remember how he did it with his vista.
Dell e1505/6400
T7600G intel core duo 2
Dual boot windows vista with xp

4gb ram, lost my expensive IBM 16gb 2x8 ddr2 sticks so im stuck with my ocz 4gb 2x2
as far as I know my system is 32 bit.
been a lot of fun since I got her in 2007 with the T7600G, would like to push her a little bit further.

I was getting error code 12 and my external display would not turn on, but after buying setup1.x and installing it, im now not getting error 12 but instead device manager says the device is not using resources cause it has a problem, and I have no external display.
Any help figuring this out would be nice since im new at external GPU's,
if I have to, if I absolutely have to, I will upgrade to windows 7. This windows vista home premium out of my many vistas was the only one to ever be any good, had about 21 laptops even the m17x alienwares windows 7's coulden't do better than it.