anybody know how to setup dual monitors in win2k?

[cptnwinky]

ok, at school i'm trying to setup dual monitors on a box with win2k. it's not just me having this problem, either. there are a few other kids in my class with the same types of errors, including the network admin(he's not too bright). can i use two of the same video cards, or do they have to be different? what do i have to do to get them both to show up in the display properties? the box recognizes that there are two video adapters, and even installs the drivers for both, but nothing shows up on the new monitor. thanks for any help in advance

 

[RobsTV]

Don't know if it's the same, but with Win ME, in display properties, you need to check the box, "extend windows desktop to this monitor".

Check out this site for help. Make sure you also check forums.
Multi-Monitor Resources

 

[jaywallen]

Hi,

I just wish to congratulate you on being able to spell the word "dual" properly in this context. I would not venture to stray into a message thread which contained the usual "dueling" monitors we see online. (I would be afraid of catching a stray zoomie from an electron gun when the monitors turn to face each other.)

Unfortunately for you, though I am glad to see that you are not working with deadly dueling monitors and wish to be helpful, I have little experience in this area, but I will try to be of aid.

I can tell you that, so far, I have actually seen dual monitors working under W2K only on systems which were using single video cards which supported dual output.

However, I believe that multimonitor support is supposed to work like this:

1. You have to have multiple (dual in your case) PCI or AGP graphics cards.
2. Go into Display Properties, select the Settings tab, click on the Advanced button.
3. On the Displays tab, select one display as Primary, and the other as Secondary, checking the "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" for each monitor. It probably will check itself automatically for the primary monitor.

Please note that I've seen this look different, I think, on a system that actually had two cards. (The one two-video-card system I saw had the monitor selections, I think, right on the settings tab.) My notebook is different in that it uses a video subsystem with two video outputs, so the driver dialogs are a bit different. I am an old man and have to squeeze the neurons extra-hard to remember more than a few dialog boxes back.

I hope this helps. If it isn't enough, try going to Microsoft's site and entering "dual monitors" or "multiple monitors" in the search box and hitting the Go button. (Don't go directly to Technet. The search works better for most purposes right from Microsoft's front page. Smarter algorithm is applied to the search, I think.)

Regards,
Jim

Edit: Well, shucks! I guess it took me too long to compose that message. Someone else beat me to it, and got right to the point, too. (Something that old farts hardly ever do!)