Wooohoo!!! Just found a 17" monitor in the trash :-) (***NOW WITH PIX***)

[aphex]

Phillips Magnavox 17" (107S)

Works perfectly!!

Question for ya... Is it possible to use 3 monitors at once using 2 video cards? (Radeon 9700 w/dual AGP, and a crappy PCI card)

UPDATE:

Pictures,
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: aphex
Phillips Magnavox 17" (107S)

Works perfectly!!

Question for ya... Is it possible to use 3 monitors at once using 2 video cards? (Radeon 9700 w/dual AGP, and a crappy PCI card)

Yes. We run 3 x 17" in our call center.

 

[aphex]

wooooo!!!!!

 

[pillage2001]

What were you doing digging through other's trash?? :Q

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: pillage2001
What were you doing digging through other's trash?? :Q

Aphex = dumpster diver.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I'd be a dumpster diver if I could find a place worth diving.


...and I run a triple head config w/ 2 cards. Most newer cards support multiple, some olders do.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: pillage2001
What were you doing digging through other's trash?? :Q

Its a community recycler/trash area... I was dropping some trash bags off and noticed it....

Wouldnt you take a free 17" monitor?

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: pillage2001
What were you doing digging through other's trash?? :Q

Its a community recycler/trash area... I was dropping some trash bags off and noticed it....

Wouldnt you take a free 17" monitor?

Well, I once took a beat up hdd from the trash too. I would take a monitor.

 

[SCSIfreek]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: pillage2001
What were you doing digging through other's trash?? :Q

Its a community recycler/trash area... I was dropping some trash bags off and noticed it....

Wouldnt you take a free 17" monitor?

No, I would not take a 17" CRT monitor cause I got no room for it. But if its a LCD.....


Guess it is your lucky day huh?


--Scsi

 

[aphex]

So i could use a crappy ass (2~4mb) PCI video card along with my Radeon 9700 and it should work?

 

[40oz]

dumptser dive= free stuff

I wish i still lived in a college town. We used to find all kinds of stuff in the dorm dumpster when i lived in Madison, WI from bongs to couches computers and food. It was like christmas when the college kids went home in the summer:

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Ah, good old dumpster diving.

- M4H

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: aphex
So i could use a crappy ass (2~4mb) PCI video card along with my Radeon 9700 and it should work?

Should work as long as the drivers don't conflict. We run Matrox G550 and a cheap ATI Rage Pro card.

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: 40oz
dumptser dive= free stuff

I wish i still lived in a college town. We used to find all kinds of stuff in the dorm dumpster when i lived in Madison, WI from bongs to couches computers and food. It was like christmas when the college kids went home in the summer:

Don't tell me you dived in for food??

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Cards that work well:
Permedia 2
Matrox MGA
ATI Radeon 7500

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: pillage2001
What were you doing digging through other's trash?? :Q

Its a community recycler/trash area... I was dropping some trash bags off and noticed it....

Wouldnt you take a free 17" monitor?

Yes, I would. I'd take the case off to ensure there isn't a nest of roaches or ants inside though. It was probably thrown away for a reason.

I have two NEC 486s (the whole box/ps/500mb HD/etc) that I found at the dumpster. Took them upstairs, cleaned them off, found they don't work...I still have them...don't really know why.

Free = Good.

 

[NutBucket]

Yep, Matrox MGAs are pretty good. That's what I use at work, 4 & 8 meg millenium2. Yes, the rest of the computer is just as crappy, excluding the 60 gig Maxtor.

 

[Chess]

Originally posted by: aphex
Phillips Magnavox 17" (107S)

Works perfectly!!

Question for ya... Is it possible to use 3 monitors at once using 2 video cards? (Radeon 9700 w/dual AGP, and a crappy PCI card)

Fun times, cant beat finding working equipment in the trash just clean it off haha

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
Yep, Matrox MGAs are pretty good. That's what I use at work, 4 & 8 meg millenium2. Yes, the rest of the computer is just as crappy, excluding the 60 gig Maxtor.

Nothing to be ashamed of if you're working solely in the second dimension. The old Matrox cards had excellent quality.

- M4H

 

[40oz]

Originally posted by: pillage2001

Originally posted by: 40oz
dumptser dive= free stuff

I wish i still lived in a college town. We used to find all kinds of stuff in the dorm dumpster when i lived in Madison, WI from bongs to couches computers and food. It was like christmas when the college kids went home in the summer:

Don't tell me you dived in for food??

Yes as a matter of fact we did. Most of it was prepackaged Ramein Noodles mac and cheese etc. when you are poor you can't be too choosey

 

[amdskip]

Free computer stuff is the best. I found a 486 with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse the other day. It works great actually!

 

[Banana]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Yes, I would. I'd take the case off to ensure there isn't a nest of roaches or ants inside though.

Or a dead little girl who'll crawl out of the monitor and get you.

 

[Stark]

now you can radiate your head from three different directions!

 

[Sid59]

few months ago, i was driving to my house, 2 blocks away, and i see a monitor. So i pulled over and was about to take it (it was sitting in the front lawn, discarded). Then the owner comes out and i ask if it's trash and he says it is and works fine. I took it home and boom .. 17" Sony monitor ..FREE

 

[aphex]

ill post some pics later this afternoon when i move the other desk in here... All 3 aint gonna fit on the one i got