dual monitors

[mattpegher]

Our ER uses a number of digital radiology viewing machines, and one is going fuzzy.
To the best I can determine it seems to be the monitor, an old huge pair of CRTs. We were looking to get them replaced now for 2 years but are being told that it must wait until a new system is purchased which seems to be held up.
There are two other viewers that use single monitors and are using regular svga monitor cables (one old grey and one of the new standard blue cables). The dual monitor are some cables that I have never seen elsewhere.
How difficult is it to run two monitors with commercially available video cards, and LCD's.

 

[sgrinavi]

It's very easy, but your OS has to support it

 

[mattpegher]

Originally posted by: sgrinavi
It's very easy, but your OS has to support it

The systems are running windows 2000. But the rest of the hospitals systems are XP pro.

 

[mattpegher]

Bump during weekday,

Any technical advise please. I am really getting tired of these fuzzy monitors.

 

[waffleironhead]

What exactly is your question? Are you offering to purchase the replacement monitor?

 

[mattpegher]

I guess my question is how do you set up dual monitors on a windows XP pro OS. I assume that I will require a special video card or 2 video cards, but I may be wrong.
Official channels are delaying while I have to read xrays from a fuzzy monitor.

 

[lifeblood]

Win2000 supports dual monitors. It does not need a special video card, any consumer (ATI or nvidia) video card will work. If your card has two video ports the just plug in both monitors and activate the second monitor in video properties. If your video card only has one port then you must buy a second video card to work in tandom, just make sure if the first card is ATI then then the second one should be ATI (or vice versa). If your using an IGP, it may or may not support dual video so buy a video card with two outputs.

Remember, you don't need a Quadro or FireGL, a standard consumer card will work.