Dual Moniters????

[Dufman]

i have a TI420 AGP video card and an acient Vodoo 3 16mb PCI card

i have 2 nice 17 inch moniters that i would like to use. would it be possibile to play movies on one moniter and do work on the other one at the same time.???

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: amdmang
i have a TI420 AGP video card and an acient Vodoo 3 16mb PCI card

i have 2 nice 17 inch moniters that i would like to use. would it be possibile to play movies on one moniter and do work on the other one at the same time.???

yes

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: amdmang
i have a TI420 AGP video card and an acient Vodoo 3 16mb PCI card

i have 2 nice 17 inch moniters that i would like to use. would it be possibile to play movies on one moniter and do work on the other one at the same time.???

yes

Thank you for that informative and knowledgeable post.

Yes, you can do it. But movies will have to be run on the primary monitor (the Ti4200 card) and work on the second. Also, does your Ti4200 have dual outputs? DVI output can be converted to VGA with a simple adaptor.

- M4H

 

[xXgambitXx]

MercenaryForHire has it right.
just hook everything up and then right click on the secondary monitor under your "setting" tab and click "attach".
i agree about trying to use the Ti4200 for this. my 4400 came w/ an adaptor for turning the DVI port into a VGA. check to see if you at least have the DVI port and just plug your secondary monitor into that w/ the adaptor. works great for me, Simpsons on one and stupid programming on the other.

 

[imported_Mike]

M4H, anytime bro...besides, you pretty much covered it. i have a ti4200 dual output, you do need the vga adatper and some kick @ss software and your all set. forget the name of the software..ultra something..

 

[GrumpyMan]

That would be Ultramon. Excellant software for dual monitors. It's about $30.00. but worth it because you can do different screen savers and wallpaper for each monitor with it.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: GrumpyMan
That would be Ultramon. Excellant software for dual monitors. It's about $30.00. but worth it because you can do different screen savers and wallpaper for each monitor with it.

thought it was free for a month or something?

 

[GrumpyMan]

Originally posted by: CheapArse

Originally posted by: GrumpyMan
That would be Ultramon. Excellant software for dual monitors. It's about $30.00. but worth it because you can do different screen savers and wallpaper for each monitor with it.

thought it was free for a month or something?

You are correct.

 

[Lonyo]

If you used a converter on a GF4/Radeon 9xxx to give 2 monitors, and then got a PCI Matrox G450/400 whatever, could you do four monitors?

 

[PCMarine]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
If you used a converter on a GF4/Radeon 9xxx to give 2 monitors, and then got a PCI Matrox G450/400 whatever, could you do four monitors?

Yes, If you have software which supports quad monitors.

 

[SUOrangeman]

When will we see dual DVI cards widely available in the market. Sure, Matrox is there and so are the Quadros. But, how many folks are going to buy those for their home machines. The only Ti4600 card with dual DVI is a Gainward Golden Sample 750 that's quickly disappearing thanks to AGP 8x. Asus has a newer Video Suite model for its GF4MX line with two DVI ports, but alas, it is a GF4MX.

A dual DVI Ti4200 (8x or otherwise) would be a killer product!!!!

-SUO

 

[UMichBalla]

yea, but if u'r using winxp b sure to have professional otherwise jus put everything in and it should autodetect the other vidcard and monitor

 

[Dufman]

everything went smoothly. and i CAN watch my DVD on either monitor.

 

[BHeemsoth]

yes, dvds will work on both monitors. Videos off the hard disk will not work.

 

[Dreadogg]

what about slide shows I am having a problem finding a program that will show the slideshow on my second monitor, I am also using GForCe 4 TI4200 with ViVO

 

[Dufman]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886
yes, dvds will work on both monitors. Videos off the hard disk will not work.

thats not true

i can watch anything on etiher moniter
execpt play games

 

[EXman]

so if my gf4 has dual outputs i can use 2 mons and just go to settings and add it or do I need ultramon software?

 

[StaTik]

You don't need any software just hook up 2 monitors and in the setting tab enable them both. I have a GF4 Ti4600 duel head running 2 very diffrent monitors under windows98, nothig but nvidia drivers and an OS is needed.

 

[EXman]

oh I guess I'll try just hooking it up.... Ok hooked it up getting no video to it how do I enable it in win XP?


ok i had to reboot