How to run 2 monitors on same system?

[rapagna]

any instructions, tips, etc. would be greatly appreciated!
TIA
wendy

 

[Crayon]

I think you can put in two video cards in Windows 98 in order to run two monitors.

 

[CHHASmatroxuser]

Buy a Matrox G400 Dual Head

 

[Ulysses]

You'll really love dual monitors.

See: http:// [url]http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2392251,00.html [/url]

Also page 5 of http:// [url]http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=1283 [/url]

Win 98 says only 2 PCI cards can be used, but the PC Mag says otherwise. The best way to go is the Matrox Dual Head AGP vid card, which is rather cheap now.

 

[ecrespol]

Do you think that you could get it to work with a dual PCI AGP mix and would three be possible

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[SupAcHinK]

Buy the matrox dual head run you about $120 i think....and shazaaamm 2 monitors. Shouldn't be to hard to set up.

 

[ET]

There are also GeForce2 MX dual head cards coming out. Might be worth waiting for that.

It depends on what card you already have, and if you want to replace it.

 

[302Ranger]

Its easy...
if you have an AGP board ( i assume so!)
just drop in a second vid card of the PCI persuasion and boot...
hook your 2nd monitor to the PCI card, and try it out, if the BIOS tries to use the PCI card as the main card, get into your BIOS and change it so that it seeks AGP as main card...

once you get the right monitor set as the main one, go into setttings/display and enable the 2nd monitor and set all the parameters you want...i.e. resolution, colors etc...

i have 2 monitors on 98se right now and i even have a 3rd PCI vid card in there but i bought it second hand w/o drivers so i cant test out the 3 monitor theory yet...but i doubt it works...
hope this helped

Luke

 

[Mday]

just open your computer, and pop in a new card (probably PCI) that has win98 drivers, and you are 90% there. by pop, i mean install.

it gets tricky when you want to change some things.

 

[Shukaido]

Have a look at this site:

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/

Something to consider - if set up two monitors running off of two video cards, and you're using win98, all OpenGL hardware acceleration is disabled. Not too good. Apparently this is because of an issue in win98's GDI.

 

[SUOrangeman]

But, you can disable the second display when you play games. You can't interact with the second screen anyway when playing a full-screen game.

Win2K lets you change primary displays on the fly!

-SUO