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I am looking into getting a second graphics card so that I can use one of the 17" monitors I have laying around. I am currently using Win 98SE. I read somewhere that there are certain chipsets that are not supported for multi monitor display. My current card is NVIDIA GeForce 256 AGP. I was looking at getting an 8MB PCI card so I can run 1280x1024. Anyone running multi monitors that knows what chipsets aren't supported? I didn't find the Microsoft webpage very helpful at all.
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PostIcon Posted on: Jan. 27 2001,23:29 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Sorry man, got no idea, most video cards SHOULD be able to work fine for dual monitors, as long as they're PCI and the OS is Win98 and up, and u set them up properly software-wise.
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PostIcon Posted on: Jan. 27 2001,23:54 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
a second what?.. too techie man.. why is this not in the geek forum?

im using a TNT2 32mb AGP and my max IS 1280x1024x32, and im using a 17" samtron v75 (samusung)

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if you dont want to deal with 2 video cards, (I suspect Windows wont like you much for even suggesting something as non-standard as that) pick up a Geforce2 mx Twinview or a Matrox G400 dualhead.

Or you can cave the trouble and just give me the 17 incher you have lying around. I'm getting head cancer from the radiation my 14" Shamrock puts out!

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I run multiple monitors. Works fine. All my monitors are different sizes running at different resolutions, and it still works like a charm.

I have a 21" running off a built in AGP card, a 19" running off an 8 meg PCI card, and a 15" running off another 8 meg card.

OS=Windows 2000

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windows will deal fine with two or more monitors provided you set up your resources right.

most of the hell people give to microsoft products is undeserved, anyway. i'd like to have more monitors....... or another computer..... or lots of things.

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When they say certain chipsets are not supported, I thought it meant certain MB chipsets. If you have a pretty good board it should be ok.

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PostIcon Posted on: Jan. 29 2001,01:45 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
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most of the hell people give to microsoft products is undeserved, anyway.

I'd have to beg to differ with that. After using microsoft stuff since DOS 3.3, I finally installed Linux about 2 months ago and it's like being shown the promised land.
Microsoft OS's are such crap when you compare them to a real OS it's pretty sad.

If only developers would write for linux more I'd use it exclusively.


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If only developers would write for linux more I'd use it exclusively.

Do you have any idea how easy it is to develop incredibly powerful appz for Windows? With the native Win32 API, the add-on crap, and all of the libraries they have produced, it's so easy to build a large, easy to support application. It may cause bloat at times, it may be a resource hog, it may be slower than native code and custom graphics calls, but time-to-market is so much quicker.

If developers would write for linux, they would go out of business. It would take too long to create the same apps, and the installed base is too tiny by comparison.

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oh man, i have found a penis. after reading this I went and found an old ati mach64 and a spare 15'' . oah it's sweet

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