Dual monitors, GF3, latest drivers, no worky :/

[Valinos]

I recently got a Geforce 3 and decided to do dual monitors all on one card rather than seperate cards. Well, after waiting a week and a half for my DVI to VGA adaptor to arrive I plug it in and plug in my second monitor and it doesn't work. I reboot and the BIOS and Windows 2000 loadup screens appear on both monitors which was a little odd I thought. I never had the bootup process show up on both screens when I used two seperate cards. Once I get into Windows though, nothing shows up on the second screen, and I have no option to turn on a second monitor. I have messed around with the nView options a bit, but to no avail. I'm also running the latest 28.32 drivers.

Any hints? Help? Suggestions?

Thanks

Also, I wanted to mention that as soon as I pull out the second monitor from the GF3, my original monitor looks 100% better. I noticed that my primary monitor looked like crap after I got out from under my desk, but I just figured I was seeing things. Then I noticed a considerable drop in brightness and edges appeared to smear. When I plug the second monitor into the DVI slot - back to crap.

What's the deal with THAT?

 

[powerMarkymark]

I too have a GF3 and as far as I know this is NOT a dual head Vid card. If you want to multi monitor you need to add a second Vid card PCI to attach your secondary monitor.

BTW the link tour "Riggae" no worky :/

 

[Valinos]

Then why the hell are there two video outs on it? Why not just make one DVI with an adaptor that comes with it?

Dammit, that crap irritates me. Can anyone verify this?

 

[zephyrprime]

NONE of the GF's are dual monitor.

 

[Valinos]

Then explain nView? Am I dyslexic, because it sure looks to me like nView means dual monitors.

 

[Bozo Galora]

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/forum/messages.asp?Topic=1325

We Know that we can enable true multimonitor support in windows 2000 by checking "treat multiple outputs on an nView-capable board as separate display devices" option in dispaly-->properties-->advanced -->geforce-->advanced-->desktop utilities. For some strange reason, i think nvidia bug, this option does not appear even if we have two monitor connected to the videoboard, or 1 monitor and 1 TV such in my case. Well i just found how we can force drivers to activate this option. Copy and past this in a txt file, then rename it to *.reg, open it and press ok:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"NvCplExposeWin2kDualView"=dword:00000001

Now if we go in dispaly-->properties-->advanced -->geforce-->advanced-->desktop utilities voila, we can select dualview in windows 2000.
Last thing you need 28.32 Detonators Drivers. Don't know if with other versions this works.

 

[jiggler]

dual monitor capability is only offered on the geforce 4 line of cards... the geforce 4 cards use nview

geforce 3 cards aren't dual head cards, so they can't use nview... i should know, i've tried it... no worky

go pick up a geforce 4 (4400 or 4600) bro... you won't regret it... either that, or add a geforce 2 PCI or geforce 4 PCI card... it'll cost ya $100 or less, really not too bad

dual monitors are a novelty... nice to have but really not necessary...

i actually have a geforce 4 4400 and i stuck a geforce 2 PCI in one of my open slots so i had 3 monitors... but i was having problems with performance... some conflict with geforce2/geforce4 drivers, so i took the bitch out, so now i only got a dual system... the extra real estate is nice to have... especially if you gots 2 top of the line monitors