problems w/ dual displays on AIW 7500

[blazingoat]

I have just set up my new dual 17" lcds
I have the primary monitor running off of my ATI All-in-wonder 7500 AGP, and the secondary monitor running of of an old ATI radeon 32mb PCI card.
Everything's working great, but i have a few little annoying problems.

1)I hardly ever play games, but at the moment, am quite addicted to C&C generals. When I play generals, it works fine on my primary monitor, but my when i move my mouse to the far left of the screen, it often goes over onto my second monitor. VERY annoying when trying to scroll the battlefield to the left. Is there any way to restrict the mouse to only the primary monitor whilst playin games?

2)Trying to play a DVD causes an instant, super-freeze. (hard re-boot required). I've tried playing dvd's w/ Ati software, MEdia player and WinDVD. In all three cases, program loads, but machine freezes bigtime before any video is displayed. (i even tired to play the raw VOB files off the dvd, same thing.).


3)anyway to get my windows task bar to span across the two monitors?

thanks

 

[blazingoat]

anyone?

 

[blazingoat]

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[powerMarkymark]

1) Any way to restrict the mouse to only the primary monitor whilst playin games?

Yes: you must disable secondary monitor when playing games...........This will resolve your problem in gaming.

2) ATI does NOT recomend using two ATI cards (AGP & PCI), check out their FAQs in the same machine for multi-monitoring.............. you can try the previous tip (disable secondary monitor) when playing DVDs and see if that helps with the problem.

3) No, you cannot get my windows task bar to span across the two monitors......but you can add a mirrorred image of your quick launch toolbar on your secondary monitor, right click the existing taskbar and schroll down to toolbars and select Quicklaunch, that will create another Quicklaunch toolbar and you can click and drag it to your secondary monitor.

I would highly sugest you get the program Ultramon for your multi-monitoring needs (they have a free trial period I think).............it really is the best App. for multi-monitoring.

 

[blazingoat]

thanks very much for the reply!
Disabling the second monitor works for playing dvds, but it also seems to work if I turn hardware acceleration to 'none' on my secondary monitor, then I play the dvd in the primary monitor, and stil have use of the secondary one

thanks again