Running dual monitors

[LokutusofBorg]

I've run dual monitors for a long time, and am currently running dual 24" 19x12 off a GTS250. I haven't ever tried to get span mode working in games, cause having the center of my game perspective be the split between the monitors would annoy the crap out of me. I play lots of games in windowed mode and do stuff on the second screen (browser, etc.). Any games that force full screen the second monitor still works, but tabbing out can screw some games up.

 

[daw123]

I am a lucky SOB.

I've spent the last two hours trying to find a second G2400WD. The only place I could find one was eBuyer, where I bought the first monitor from. All other UK shops list it as being discontinued or zero stock.

eBuyer only had a clearance and open box G2400WD:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161780
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168481

There was only a £10 - £20 saving for the open box / clearance over what I paid for the first monitor.

I had a look on eBay and I found that eBuyer had a listing for a new G2400WD (at the identical price to what I paid for the first one). The G2400WD was listed as new with a 12 month warranty, unlike the clearance (30 days) and open box (90 days):

7.1 All new goods supplied by the Supplier are warranted free from defects for 12 months from the date of supply (unless otherwise stated). This warranty does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer. If new goods develop a defect during the 12 month warranty period, you should follow the Supplier's Returns procedure (see condition 12 below). In the event of a valid claim for a defect in the new goods, where clauses 8.4 or 8.5 do not apply, the Supplier will (at its option) either... (from eBuyer's Terms and Conditions).

The clearance and open box could also have stuff missing from it and cosmetic damage to the monitor (as well as more than the ISO standard number of dead pixels). eBay's conditions of sale stated that an item listed as new must be new.

The other thing as well is that eBuyer's eBay Terms and Conditons are identical to their online shop's Terms and Conditons, so I'm covered when it comes to the number of dead pixels, the RMA process (which I know is good), etc.

'All LCD displays sold at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/ebuyerexpress adhere to the ISO 13406-2 standard with regard to pixel faults. ISO 13406-2 recommends how many defaults are acceptable in a display before it should be replaced, within the terms & conditions of warranty. The below is relevant to Class II LCD panels.'

'To return an item to Ebuyer, you must obtain a unique Returns Authorisation Number from a member of our Return Support team on 0845 121 0523. Once you have received your unique number, your item(s) can be returned to Ebuyer.'

So I got my debit card out and bought that sucker. It will be delivered to work this Friday.

The whole point of this exercise is that I want matching monitors sitting on my desk.

I've now got to buy a second 3m long Dual DVI cable.

I'm also going to download and purchase Ultramon for $40.00 (or £25.00)

 

[daw123]

Both monitors work.

This is cool: http://i429.photobucket.com/al...wilson123/IMG00055.jpg

I've downloaded Ultramon and I will see what it is like.

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: LokutusofBorg
I've run dual monitors for a long time, and am currently running dual 24" 19x12 off a GTS250. I haven't ever tried to get span mode working in games, cause having the center of my game perspective be the split between the monitors would annoy the crap out of me. I play lots of games in windowed mode and do stuff on the second screen (browser, etc.). Any games that force full screen the second monitor still works, but tabbing out can screw some games up.

My plan was to have 3 monitors. 2 17" in portrait flanking a 24" but, frankly, its way too much hassle.
This is why I want span mode and custom resolutions to work better.

 

[daw123]

Originally posted by: WelshBloke

Originally posted by: LokutusofBorg
I've run dual monitors for a long time, and am currently running dual 24" 19x12 off a GTS250. I haven't ever tried to get span mode working in games, cause having the center of my game perspective be the split between the monitors would annoy the crap out of me. I play lots of games in windowed mode and do stuff on the second screen (browser, etc.). Any games that force full screen the second monitor still works, but tabbing out can screw some games up.

My plan was to have 3 monitors. 2 17" in portrait flanking a 24" but, frankly, its way too much hassle.
This is why I want span mode and custom resolutions to work better.

I've just purchased a license for Ultramon 64 bit (£29.00 inc V.A.T.).

btw UltraMon works well with Win 7 RC 64 Bit. You can also assign hot keys to switch applications (and the mouse pointer amongst other things) between monitors.

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: daw123

Originally posted by: WelshBloke

Originally posted by: LokutusofBorg
I've run dual monitors for a long time, and am currently running dual 24" 19x12 off a GTS250. I haven't ever tried to get span mode working in games, cause having the center of my game perspective be the split between the monitors would annoy the crap out of me. I play lots of games in windowed mode and do stuff on the second screen (browser, etc.). Any games that force full screen the second monitor still works, but tabbing out can screw some games up.

My plan was to have 3 monitors. 2 17" in portrait flanking a 24" but, frankly, its way too much hassle.
This is why I want span mode and custom resolutions to work better.

I've just purchased a license for Ultramon 64 bit (£29.00 inc V.A.T.).

btw UltraMon works well with Win 7 RC 64 Bit. You can also assign hot keys to switch applications (and the mouse pointer amongst other things) between monitors.

Yeah, Ultramon is pretty good for 2D stuff, it just doesn't do what I need.

I think soft triple head (or whatever its called) would do what I want if I buy another 17" monitor and vid card. However I don't want to buy those things only to find out it still doesn't work.

 

[daw123]

Originally posted by: WelshBloke

Originally posted by: daw123

Originally posted by: WelshBloke

Originally posted by: LokutusofBorg
I've run dual monitors for a long time, and am currently running dual 24" 19x12 off a GTS250. I haven't ever tried to get span mode working in games, cause having the center of my game perspective be the split between the monitors would annoy the crap out of me. I play lots of games in windowed mode and do stuff on the second screen (browser, etc.). Any games that force full screen the second monitor still works, but tabbing out can screw some games up.

My plan was to have 3 monitors. 2 17" in portrait flanking a 24" but, frankly, its way too much hassle.
This is why I want span mode and custom resolutions to work better.

I've just purchased a license for Ultramon 64 bit (£29.00 inc V.A.T.).

btw UltraMon works well with Win 7 RC 64 Bit. You can also assign hot keys to switch applications (and the mouse pointer amongst other things) between monitors.

Yeah, Ultramon is pretty good for 2D stuff, it just doesn't do what I need.

I think soft triple head (or whatever its called) would do what I want if I buy another 17" monitor and vid card. However I don't want to buy those things only to find out it still doesn't work.

Could you borrow a monitor from someone (such as a spare from work) just to test to see if it works correctly?

I know my boss would allow me to do that if I asked.

 

[alkalinetaupehat]

Originally posted by: WelshBloke
Ok, looked into it a bit more and under vista/win7 you cannot have span mode.

You can have extended desktop and mirrored desktops.

KKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!1!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's what I got dual monitors FOR!!!

 

[imadjok]

Good morning from downunder Australia.
I have been reading through this topic and it seems that I may need some or a lot of help..

Firstly, I'm a novice at this stuff, so my questions and answers are in layman's terms.

Secondly, this is a work related question problem that I believe should have a simple answer, again in layman's terms..

Okay, here we go.. and my apologies for being long-winded..

I'm setting up a mobile trade shop in a large truck selling tools. for example something in the like with "Snap-on Tools" if anybody is familiar. I have set up the computer system in the truck running XP with dual monitors and a ATI Radeon Catalyst Control Center dual video card etc..

All runs fine and does the simple things that it's suppose to do - extend, clone, expand.

My initial purpose for setting up the 2 monitors is so I could use the second monitor as an advertising and promotional tool towards the customers that walk into the truck, whilst I carry out transactions and sales and whatever else I need to do away from their view.

So for example I want to run a Powerpoint presentation on the 2nd monitor, though I want to first peruse the presentation confirming that is the one I want to run.

Now here's my problem,

I know and understand that I can drag the presentation across to that monitor, though I don't have that monitor in my view as it is facing the other way and so I tend to either lose my mouse pointer or placing the presentation nice and centered to that screen is a task, or if you have multiple pages and files open on your main screen and you start to move them around as you do to see simultaneously you tend to push them onto the other screen. and this may not be evident or you don't know that you've done this without getting up and around to the other monitor to see where things end up.

Is there anyway of taking INDEPENDENT CONTROL over each screen and controling it from the main screen.

For example a picture in picture type situation like on your TV set when watching one main channel you can have a small box displaying whats in the other and you can drag and drop onto that as you would with any other file to file moving you do.

and/or

have control of what you can send to the second screen by "right click and send to"


I have spent a few hours in the control and preference setup but other that the common three setups of "extend clone and expand"

I don't know what else to do but it sure would be great if it was simple.

Thanks everybody for taking time out to read this, and hope you can help with a simple solution.

Cheers

The H-man and imadjok... :music:

 

[DataCabbitKSW]

imadjok: Try running PowerPoint in presentation mode, and tell it in its settings to use that second Monitor as the presentation display monitor. Then your primary monitor (facing you, likely) will be a screen that shows upcoming slides, notes on the slides, and miniature versions of the slides you are showing FullScreen on the other one. This has been part of Powerpoint since at least the 2003 release. It is very handy.
Back to topic at hand: I have several machines near me, and I run my primary machine in one of two fashions: One, dual monitor on the primary card of a pair of SLI'd Nvidia GTX280. dual monitor under SLI works only under Vista and Windows 7. The primary (3D focus) monitor is my 30" 2560x1600, the secondary is a 19" 1280x1024. I also have two other 17" 1280x1024 monitors that I have hooked up to the secondary card (and off their secondary inputs to other PCs) so that if I turn off SLI, I can have 4x monitors spanning a lot of real estate. All of this is currently under Vista, but I have those two 17" monitors currently hooked up to my Windows 7 rig that has 2x 8800GTs in it. Those work just fine on that box also. I use my Windows 7 RC box primarily for testing and as a Media Center. Oh, just as a note, you can only download the Windows 7 RC until August 20th. So get it soon if you wanted to try it out: http://tinyurl.com/832nco