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Topic: Multiple Monitors
started by: Der_Teufel

Posted by Der_Teufel on Jan. 27 2001,18:18

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.

Posted by StanVanDam on Jan. 27 2001,23:29

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.

Posted by solid on Jan. 27 2001,23:54

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)

Posted by aventari on Jan. 28 2001,04:01

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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Posted by jim on Jan. 28 2001,11:48

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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Posted by kuru on Jan. 28 2001,13:34

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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Posted by Observer on Jan. 28 2001,19:17

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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Posted by aventari on Jan. 29 2001,01:45

quote:
Originally posted by kuru:
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 God had meant for us to use the metric system, we would have been born with ten fingers and ten toes."

Posted by askheaves on Jan. 29 2001,13:49

quote:
Originally posted by aventari:
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.

Posted by kai on Jan. 29 2001,23:48

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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Posted by DuSTman on Jan. 30 2001,01:37

Damn i want a second screen. I have an old graphics card lying around, could get another monitor.. Only thing is this desk is too damned small.

Posted by Hellraiser on Jan. 31 2001,09:43

Well since I have a 21" running at 1600x1200, and no available desk space, I'll stick with one monitor for now. Especially considering that I'm in college and damn near broke...

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Posted by SaxMaster on Mar. 03 2001,01:53

I run 2 monitors

My ATI Rage Mobility-MT in my phat laptop supports a second display/extended desktop. it's great, except the 3D performance is less than stellar. However, it's a p3-600 with 256ram and a 15.1 LCD, which makes up for the kinda mediocre 3d chip.

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Posted by jim on Mar. 04 2001,12:02

Dustman is right.

You know... Hercules makes a PCI GeForce2 MX now! They also make a 64 meg GeForce2 MX. I don't care what people say about the MX card, they can't be beat for the price. I slapped a blue orb on mine and some ram sinks and overclocked it to it's limits! I love the thing. Of course that isn't going to stop me from getting a 3d Prophet III.

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Posted by askheaves on Mar. 04 2001,13:48

I totally believe you guys. The weird part is, I enabled the onboard in the BIOS, and it shows up in windows... resourceless. So, it's there in the device manager, but it has a little yellow exclamation point. Ug.

Posted by askheaves on Mar. 04 2001,17:10

Anybody have any idea why I can't hook up a monitor to my onboard video card and my AGP card? Is this a board/card specific problem? Or is it a general problem with AGP?

My setup: ASUS CUSL2 board (815E Chipset) with an ASUS 7700 Geforce2 GTS 32Meg.

I just don't want to take the S3 card out of my old computer and use up a PCI slot.

Posted by DuSTman on Mar. 04 2001,17:27

Well, on board graphics chips are usually wired in as AGP, and AFAIK you can only have one AGP device active in the system (well, i've never heard of a system with multiple AGP devices running simultaneously), and you'd probably disable the onboard gfx in installing the geforce.. So, looks like it's the old card from the PCI slot for you..