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Dual Monitors With two graphics cards?
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| enferno |
HP Pavillion a527x
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
2.10 GHz
512 RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 Rosewill 128MB PCI Graphics card
and an integrated graphics card, I believe it is a VIA/S3G Unichrome.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to hook up two monitors to work on this set up.
If anyone could provide some insight as to how I would go about this for as cheap as possible (maybe some sort of adapter that's only a few bucks?) without buying a new card. If it's not possible, then oh well.
Thanks
John |
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| Audigy7 |
| Does your video card have two outputs? Most newer cards have one normal monitor connector and a dvi connection and if you buy the dvi to vga addapter, you can dual monitor using one vid. card. |
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| enferno |
| quote: | Originally posted by Audigy7
Does your video card have two outputs? Most newer cards have one normal monitor connector and a dvi connection and if you buy the dvi to vga addapter, you can dual monitor using one vid. card. |
alright thanks, that's what i shal do. |
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| Stassi |
i dont think 2 graphics cards will do this trick
what you want is a dual head graphics card. |
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| Dirk W. |
| I have 2 video cards in my computer, because I never bothered removing the second one and windows gives me the option to use dual monitors running seperately on each card. It will expand the desktop over and everything if I tell it to. Really simple. |
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| itsTrueSonic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dirk W.
I have 2 video cards in my computer, because I never bothered removing the second one and windows gives me the option to use dual monitors running seperately on each card. It will expand the desktop over and everything if I tell it to. Really simple. |
i was thinking about that. my laptop offers the option of displaying on both my laptop screen, and what device is connected to the video plug.. |
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| Phil raa |
i very much doubt you'll get dual monitor support with onboard + third party gfx. in fact I'm 99.5% sure you won't.
the pci or agp normally over rides the onboard.
also you need the software to specifically support dual monitor, which neither the onboard drivers will have, nor the pci. (it's normally in desktop right click>properties>one of the tabs)
if you want to see two monitors at once, you'll need to get a matrox dual head, or nvidia or ati agp (or others)...i can't remember exactly which cards support dual output - best to check when you buy the card.
matrox was one of the first to support dual head, but i think lots of cards do it now... |
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