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dual monitors with 2 video 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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| jon |
it windows xp?
and im not 100% sure if this is possible or not |
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| Dr. Cfire |
Windows XP will definatly support dual monitors.
There are two ways to do this
Dual head cards:
If you have the card I think you do it is a dual head card. The DVI port should be a second output. All you need is a DVI to HD15 convertor.
http://www.pacificcable.com/Picture...ataName=DVIHD15
If you look at the display properties in settings there should be more than one monitor listed. Probably 2 outputs for you ATI card and 1 output for the TV out.
The other way is using two video cards.
Integrated graphics cards dont work here. Having two cards one AGP and one PCI or two PCI (or posibily two AGP depends on your mobo). Choose your booting card in the bios. The booting card usally defaults to the PCI. Then in windows click on the second display in the display properties and choose extend my windows desktop onto this monitor.
General Notes:
Allignment of the monitor squares will adjust the mouseover. monitor 1 is left of monitor 2 the left edge of monitor 2 will mouseover to 1. oposite for the reverse.
make sure to turn off your onboard video this can cause all kinds of problems if you dont.
primary monitor will have login screens, task bar by default(you can move it) and most programs will open here unless set not to.
If you need any other help or some of this is not clear you can PM me. |
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