dual monitors.. and tv cards....

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Ok, say I have dual monitors... not the DualHead/Twinview way, but two video card way. I have my tv tuner...

is there anyway to have the tv window show up on the *secondary* monitor?

My friend has this exact setup, using an ATI TV wonder. I wanted to do the same someday (when i find me a cheap 15"er to use) w/ my studio PCTV...

Is this possible? Seems to be an overlay incompatibility.... maybe try installing the tv card w/ only the secondary monitor/vid card installed... then go ahead and put the main stuff back in??

Any ideas? How about you G400/MX owners... have you had any problems w/ this?
 

SUOrangeman

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I wouldn't expect it to work, but in Win2K, you can switch primary and secondary displays on the fly.

-SUO
 

Hawk

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Nope, I don't think you can do it, but yeah, just either put the crappy monitor on your primary card or just tell the other video card to be secondary...doesn't make too much of a difference I guess.
 

Mday

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there is no way you can "actually" have the tv display on the secondary monitor.

you can rewrite all the drivers if you want, that's why "actually" is in quotes =)

that's the flaw of microsoft's implementation of being able to have multiple displays.