Who'd've thought a second monitor would be so handy?

Killbat

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I added an ATI Xpert98 to my system today and hooked up a second monitor after seeing what's possible on a friend's system. This experience has taught me a few things. For one, Windows2000 is trying to spoil me. Setting up multiple displays is so painless it's inhuman, and there're more than enough options to set it up the way I want. Second, Photoshop 0wnz j00! How dandy!
 

ArkAoss

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dang... that looks sooo stinking temting... seeing as how i've killed my second pc... I've got a 17 inch monitor to spare.
 

tomcat

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yea dual montitors are great! I've been running mine for about 6 months.. use the features all the time.
 

Nerd

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Hmm, you've just given me a great idea. What other video cards support dual monitors other then that video card you are using?
 

Mday

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i've had this dual setup for over a year, since june 1999... =)

i want another 19" monitor now...
 

Blayze

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I have a spare PCI video card as well.

I believe I will try out dual monitors too :) looks so nice and useful too
 

urbantechie

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Pfft, i've set countless of them up. It would be nice though for me but I would be a spoiled kid and would want a 17" instead of a 15".
 

KameLeon

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<< can i sue any pci video card to achieve this dual monitors? >>


Why would you want to sue a video card? and How?! :confused:
 

poop

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Anyone got some links to howto's handy? Dual monitors would be nice to have.
 
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im waiting for the day when somebody puts like three dual head cards in his comp and attaches 6 monitors. might as well view that database of porn 6 pics at a time, no?
 

Mday

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as long as your PIC video card has real win98 drivers or whatever OS you're using, you can.

remember that the secondary monitor is nothing more than an extension of your desktop... don't expect to play games on it. the good thing about w2k is that it allows you to change which is the primary monitor, so there you can actually play games on any adapter you want.

the most basic way to have dual mon is to get a card with 2 outputs ;-)

the second is just to install another display adapter while using an OS that supports multiple displays. you may have to troubleshoot to get things working due to some driver conflicts...

here are examples of some of the problems i have had:
I. Matrox Mystique (170, the original)... the drivers that came with win98se did not allow me to use the card as a secondary card... i had to use the latest drivers at that time from matrox which worked like a charm =) though the features of &quot;powerdesk&quot; did not work since the card was secondary...

II. creative labs banshee (3dfx chip, should apply to many banshee cards)... the drivers install also installed 3d tweaking utilities and junk which conflicted with my primary video card which rendered both cards caput... my solution, remove drivers for both cards via safe mode... install the primary card, reboot, install the secondary card (the banshee), before rebooting UNINSTALL the 3d tweaking utilities, reboot... worked like a charm.. =)

my primary cards have been a rage fury, and now an aiw radeon... my current secondary card is the matrox card mentioned above...

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microsoft has a list of chips\cards that they have &quot;approved&quot; as secondary cards, of course the banshee is not on the list ;-)...

anyway, those OLD ATI (rage pro, and older) pci cards work great from reading various experiences (not just killbat's)... those cheaper cirrus logic ones do well too...
 

Mday

Lifer
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win98 and probably all the subsequent OSes can support up to 9 display adapters =)

remember that having several CRTs drain electricity like hell, you may need a new circuit built ;-) 'cause you can blow a fuse ;-)

you will NEED A LOT OF RAM on your system, as well as enough ram on your secondary card if you want to display things well... a high RAMDAC is a good thing =) REMEMBER since the secondary card is nothing more than an extension of the desktop, BUY 2D!!!!!!!!!