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Chipster

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Do a little research before buying a tv tuner card. I don't think any of the ATI tuners will let you move the tv output to anything put your primary display. And if they do, I'd like to know how. I'd love to be able to move mine to a second screen.

I use the ATI TV Wonder VE and just drag the TV window to my secondary display and it works fine.
 

saftey

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I wish i had a 8x agp card with built in support for 4 monitors.There is a company that sells prebuild quad displays with propietary software to controll it each one was about 25 thousand dollers.I wish i remembered the links.
 

aznmist

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i'm running 3 monitors too! i got the ati paraparaphelia!

1) GE Trinitron 20"
2) Microsoft LCD 17"
3) IBM TV 32"

;)
 

iamwiz82

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my head hurts from trying to translate what has been typed into actual words. I thought you got a 4.0 in english?
 

saftey

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4.0 in english?the gpa is a accumilative of your grades......did you even go to highschool?i thought every student would know that.
 

saftey

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kick back [AzN]MiSt go chat on aol so you can AlTerNaTe LeTtErs like this and spell me MEEH....



 

royaldank

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Originally posted by: Chipster
Do a little research before buying a tv tuner card. I don't think any of the ATI tuners will let you move the tv output to anything put your primary display. And if they do, I'd like to know how. I'd love to be able to move mine to a second screen.

I use the ATI TV Wonder VE and just drag the TV window to my secondary display and it works fine.

I also have the ATI TV VE, a GeForce3 Ti, and an old PCI 8 meg card in the system. I load up the tv, and I can drag it all over the primary (the GeForce, obviously), but I cannot drag it to the second monitor.

I swapped cards with a Radeon Dual display figuring that might be an easy fix. Still, I cannot drag the tv over to the second monitor. I'll looked all through their support on the site and it never mentions this problem. Others that I've spoken with haven't been able to move it either.

What setup are you using? And is there anything else that you might have done special? It's frustrating because I'd obviously like to run the TV card on the second screen while I work off the good graphics card.
 

amnesiac

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Originally posted by: saftey
4.0 in english?the gpa is a accumilative of your grades......did you even go to highschool?i thought every student would know that.
Right but each class assigns you a grade which is converted to a 4-point scale. So yes, you can get a 4.0 in English. That's called an A.

*edit*

Oh yeah, and stop eating dirty weenies.
 

Demon-Xanth

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I started running a triple monitor setup because I could, after a couple of weeks I found single monitor setups to be clumsy. I have a single monitor setup at work and desperately want to attach a second (that happens to be sitting on my desk). Too bad I don't have Win98 slave vidcard drivers for a FireGL 1000 (sitting in a drawer at home) :/
 

PG

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Originally posted by: saftey
sounds cool eagle keeper,heres a screenshot of me utilizing all 3 monitorsmonitors3desk.jpg

I'm not going to call you a liar, but that picture won't be enough proof for people around here. The picture shows 3 screenshots in one pic, but they could have been taken from 1 computer and pasted together. It still isn't a pic of all 3 monitors running at one time from one computer. Nice try though.

 

NikPreviousAcct

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I have three monitors running at once too... but that's cuz I have three of the four computers here in my cube at work all logged in.

nik
 

joohang

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Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
Originally posted by: saftey
4.0 in english?the gpa is a accumilative of your grades......did you even go to highschool?i thought every student would know that.
Right but each class assigns you a grade which is converted to a 4-point scale. So yes, you can get a 4.0 in English. That's called an A.

*edit*

Oh yeah, and stop eating dirty weenies.

Now I'm very very confused because I thought that AP grades their courses on a 1 - 4 (or maybe it was 5) scale. Just like IB grades in a 1 - 7 scale. They are both bell curve, as far as I know. And the grade is determined months after the final exam.
 

iamwiz82

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Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
Originally posted by: saftey
4.0 in english?the gpa is a accumilative of your grades......did you even go to highschool?i thought every student would know that.
Right but each class assigns you a grade which is converted to a 4-point scale. So yes, you can get a 4.0 in English. That's called an A.

*edit*

Oh yeah, and stop eating dirty weenies.

to elaborate even more, I took 4 years of english in high school, so 4.0 would be cumulative from those classes. I'm only repeating what you have spewed, by the way.

here you go, Mr. honors english.
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Chipster

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Do a little research before buying a tv tuner card. I don't think any of the ATI tuners will let you move the tv output to anything put your primary display. And if they do, I'd like to know how. I'd love to be able to move mine to a second screen.
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I use the ATI TV Wonder VE and just drag the TV window to my secondary display and it works fine.
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I also have the ATI TV VE, a GeForce3 Ti, and an old PCI 8 meg card in the system. I load up the tv, and I can drag it all over the primary (the GeForce, obviously), but I cannot drag it to the second monitor.

I swapped cards with a Radeon Dual display figuring that might be an easy fix. Still, I cannot drag the tv over to the second monitor. I'll looked all through their support on the site and it never mentions this problem. Others that I've spoken with haven't been able to move it either.

What setup are you using? And is there anything else that you might have done special? It's frustrating because I'd obviously like to run the TV card on the second screen while I work off the good graphics card.

I'm using a Geforce 2 for my primary monitor and a Voodoo 3 pci for my secondary monitor. I really didn't do anything special royaldank and I'm using Windows XP and ATI Multimedia Center7.1. The funny thing is that when I open the TV and it pops up in my primary(geforce) monitor,most times its all garbled so I drag it to my secondary(voodoo) monitor and it fixes it and from there I can drag anywhere I want to. I can record using either one too.
Sorry I don't have good tip for you,maybe its that old rock solid Voodoo compatibility. I have to admit,I still use my voodoo card for reading most stuff due to its 2d sharpness...Great little video card and not a bad gaming card in its time.
 

royaldank

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I'm using a Geforce 2 for my primary monitor and a Voodoo 3 pci for my secondary monitor. I really didn't do anything special royaldank and I'm using Windows XP and ATI Multimedia Center7.1. The funny thing is that when I open the TV and it pops up in my primary(geforce) monitor,most times its all garbled so I drag it to my secondary(voodoo) monitor and it fixes it and from there I can drag anywhere I want to. I can record using either one too.
Sorry I don't have good tip for you,maybe its that old rock solid Voodoo compatibility. I have to admit,I still use my voodoo card for reading most stuff due to its 2d sharpness...Great little video card and not a bad gaming card in its time.

I appreciate you writing back. Did you try that setup in Win98? I haven't put XP on that particular system yet, so maybe that will solve the problem for me.

Oh well. I ended up putting a 19" tv next to my two monitors and using that until I can figure out why my TV card wont drag to a secondary card.
 

Chipster

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I appreciate you writing back. Did you try that setup in Win98? I haven't put XP on that particular system yet, so maybe that will solve the problem for me.

It worked just the same using windows 98,I could drag it anywhere I wanted too.
 

royaldank

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Originally posted by: Chipster
I appreciate you writing back. Did you try that setup in Win98? I haven't put XP on that particular system yet, so maybe that will solve the problem for me.

It worked just the same using windows 98,I could drag it anywhere I wanted too.

That's not the answer I wanted to hear....oh well. I guess it just doesn't like my older PCI card. Can't remember what that card is right now, but I'd guess a crappy old S3 ViRGE or something real similar.

 

EvilYoda

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Obviously he's ignoring everyone that talks about, so either wait for him to post something or be content in thinking him a liar.

I don't know what the story is on the Accord, but I'd like to see it as well. Since he's ignored every post, I would now like to see the car, him in the car, a video of a 12 sec run, along with proof of ownership. :)
 

kermalou

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i am a newb to this dual/triple monitor thing, if i put in a second pci video card in my comp, i can use both monitors and drag between the both of them?