Dual Monitors on a laptop?

[Miramonti]

This is for a friend and I'm not familiar with laptops at all. He has a dell 1.7ghz laptop.

Can a second monitor be hooked up to it somehow, using a special laptop graphics card I assume? If dual monitors are possible whats required here?

 

[techfuzz]

He might be able to hookup a second monitor by buyining a docking station, then buying a dual head video card and installing it in the docking station. There aren't any special laptop graphics cards that I am aware of that support dual monitor configurations. The laptop's case would have to be modified or changed to allow that and Dell standardizes their laptop cases.

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[Looney]

Originally posted by: jjsole
This is for a friend and I'm not familiar with laptops at all. He has a dell 1.7ghz laptop.

Can a second monitor be hooked up to it somehow, using a special laptop graphics card I assume? If dual monitors are possible whats required here?

Probably not... not unless you can get dual RAMDAC, which i don't think you can.

 

[vetteguy]

Originally posted by: techfuzz
He might be able to hookup a second monitor by buyining a docking station, then buying a dual head video card and installing it in the docking station. There aren't any special laptop graphics cards that I am aware of that support dual monitor configurations. The laptop's case would have to be modified or changed to allow that and Dell standardizes their laptop cases.

techfuzz

Actually, there are. I have a Dell Latitude which has a GeForce4 Go in it, and I use a dual monitor setup. It recognizes the external VGA port as a second monitor port in XP.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: techfuzz He might be able to hookup a second monitor by buyining a docking station, then buying a dual head video card and installing it in the docking station. There aren't any special laptop graphics cards that I am aware of that support dual monitor configurations. The laptop's case would have to be modified or changed to allow that and Dell standardizes their laptop cases. techfuzz

Actually, there are. I have a Dell Latitude which has a GeForce4 Go in it, and I use a dual monitor setup. It recognizes the external VGA port as a second monitor port in XP.

excellent. he has a gforce 2, maybe it will work this way as well. I'm checking with him about that.

 

[techfuzz]

Originally posted by: vetteguy

Originally posted by: techfuzz
He might be able to hookup a second monitor by buyining a docking station, then buying a dual head video card and installing it in the docking station. There aren't any special laptop graphics cards that I am aware of that support dual monitor configurations. The laptop's case would have to be modified or changed to allow that and Dell standardizes their laptop cases.

techfuzz

Actually, there are. I have a Dell Latitude which has a GeForce4 Go in it, and I use a dual monitor setup. It recognizes the external VGA port as a second monitor port in XP.

I guess I should have said I was assuming he wanted to use two LCD or two CRT monitors as opposed to the psuedo-dual monitor setup that can be employed by using an external LCD/CRT and the laptops built-in LCD screen as the second.

Function-F6 to toggle the LCD/CRT output I believe is the correcty key sequence on the Latitude C series?

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