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Dual Monitors using ancient video card

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JohnPaul

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Well, I dedided to set up a dual monitor setup on my system. The amusing part is that I used a 14" monitor and and s3trio64v to do it. To be honest, I didn't think it would even work being that I used such old components(ten years), but it did. My main video card is a crappy TNT2M64 with a 19" monitor. It looks kind of silly, since I now have a 19" monitor along side a 14" monitor, but hey, it works right!! Funny the things you can do with ancient hardware when you're bored. Maybe i'll take my 15" off of my other rig and have a three monitor setup. Wouldn't that look spectactularly foolish? Well, just needed to vent my amusement.

John-Paul
 
It doesn't look silly. I've got the same thing - 19" CRT and a 14" CRT. Yet everytime someone sees my rig for the first time, I always get a lot of compliments on it.

Anything that increases your productivity is a good thing no matter what other people say, anyways.
 
I agree with you there. It just looks amusing to me because it's so lop sided. I just switched the monitors-I'm now running my 15" with the 19", although it pretty much looks the same.

What blows my mind is that I was able to use such an old video card s3trio64(PCI), with a TNT2M64(AGP). I would have imagined that a PCI card would conflict with an AGP, but it works fine, and according to the arcticle I read, many people use this configuration.

John-Paul
 
Before getting my GeForce Ti 4200, I was running a TNT 16MB Card (AGP) and a Matrox Millenium II (PCI).

There's no problem with conflicts. As far back as Win98 (well, more like ME, because 98's multimon support was weak), you've been able to use more than 1 vidcard for display purposes. Most people just never bothered dusting off their old PCI stuff and seeing if it'd work.

Not all cards do though, there has to be a GOOD set of drivers for it. The Rendition Verite 4MB card I had didn't have XP drivers, so I couldn't run multimon with it. But then, Rendition is bankrupt, and Matrox isn't. It's a safe bet that any manufacturer still around today will have some older cards that make wonderful multimonitor pieces.
 
i started off with a voodoo 5 5500agp and a trident pci card with 17"crt and a 15"crt. now i have identical 19"crts with a matrox millenium g550 running both at 1600x1200. i have a third one of these monitors and when i get the cash, i hope to get a parhelia and run all 3 monitors.
 
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