How do i hook up Two monitors?

[krazykilroy]

I have a GeForce 3 and may want to add a second LCD monitor to my comp when I change to WinXP. Am I supposed to hook up a PCI Video Card and run both from out of the back of my comp? I have an old Voodoo 4500 that's rearing to go, but want to know if it matters at all.

 

[mrVW]

Do you want your LCD's to be DVI?

THe proper term is "Dual" or "nView" or "TwinView" -- search on those words.

The best route is to get a good AGP dual card... that way you have drivers that are tested for twin... but a AGP+PCI or PCI+PCI does work. Just hard to find good PCI cards these days (drivers don't always play well in multiple card mode).

 

[krazykilroy]

Thanks a lot guy. I had heard that Win XP is very fickle when it comes to drivers and such at times.

My Uncles a VW man. He has one of those air-cooled Vanagons and a VW dasher.

 

[rbV5]

I stuck my old V3 into my rig a little bit ago for dual monitor support. Setup in XP was a breeze, native driver support worked fine. Don't expect hardware acceleration, or direct show support on your secondary monitor, but it works well.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Yesterday I downloaded latest drivers for my Radeon 7000 64 MB DDR PCI card, it is installed as my secondary GPU card and my primary GPU is my GF3 Ti 200 64MB AGP. Before the driver updates for the ATI PCI the two cards did not play nice together. I was constantly getting system freezes almost as soon as I started using the secondary monitor. Now everything is humming along with no problems. Not one freeze up since the drivers update.

Our friend was correct when he said that good PCI cards are getting hard to find so if you can afford it, after trying multimonitorring for a while and you decide you like it or not, you may wish to pick up a good PCI card before they become impossible to find.

Anyway, have fun.