Dual Monitor Set up

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Hi,

I want to set up dual monitors on my system and am not sure if I need a new
graphicas card or not. I currently have NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE. It has
a 15 pin VGA and DVI TV Out. I am currently using the 15 pn vga for one
monitor, but am not sure if I can plug a second in to the TV out?
The second monitor is a standard vga so i guess if I could use the DTV for
this there is some kind of vga to tv out adapter?

many thanks
 
-- Paul -- said:
Hi,

I want to set up dual monitors on my system and am not sure if I need a
new graphicas card or not. I currently have NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE.
It has a 15 pin VGA and DVI TV Out. I am currently using the 15 pn vga
for one monitor, but am not sure if I can plug a second in to the TV out?
The second monitor is a standard vga so i guess if I could use the DTV for
this there is some kind of vga to tv out adapter?
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The card has 3 outputs - a DVI output (the rectangular port). A VGA or D-Sub
port - the normal 15 pin monitor connector and it also has a TV out port. If
you want to use 2 monitors, you can plug them into the DVI port and the DSub
port. The card probably came with a DVI - DSub convertor. Windows will then
allow you to turn on both monitors and stretch your desktop over 2 screens
or duplicate the same info on both screens as you wish. (Control
Panel->Display->Settings->Advanced->Monitors or something like that!)

You should only use the TV out port to connect a TV to the computer.
 
thanks gt

I will try that.

GT said:
The card has 3 outputs - a DVI output (the rectangular port). A VGA or
D-Sub port - the normal 15 pin monitor connector and it also has a TV out
port. If you want to use 2 monitors, you can plug them into the DVI port
and the DSub port. The card probably came with a DVI - DSub convertor.
Windows will then allow you to turn on both monitors and stretch your
desktop over 2 screens or duplicate the same info on both screens as you
wish. (Control Panel->Display->Settings->Advanced->Monitors or something
like that!)

You should only use the TV out port to connect a TV to the computer.
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-- Paul -- said:
Hi,

I want to set up dual monitors on my system and am not sure if I need a
new graphicas card or not. I currently have NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE.
It has a 15 pin VGA and DVI TV Out. I am currently using the 15 pn vga
for one monitor, but am not sure if I can plug a second in to the TV out?
The second monitor is a standard vga so i guess if I could use the DTV for
this there is some kind of vga to tv out adapter?

many thanks
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I believe it needs something called Nview for multi-monitors which I don't
believe it has

http://www.nvidia.com/page/fx_desktop.html

You can get converters do change from (DVI?) (not TV) to VGA
but sounds like it would not work.

But I am no expect its a confusing subject.

I don't know if you need to buy a nView card or just another video card
to run two monitors, its confusing when you gooogle it.
 
I believe it needs something called Nview for multi-monitors which I don't
believe it has

http://www.nvidia.com/page/fx_desktop.html

You can get converters do change from (DVI?) (not TV) to VGA
but sounds like it would not work.

But I am no expect its a confusing subject.

I don't know if you need to buy a nView card or just another video card
to run two monitors, its confusing when you gooogle it.
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You don't need two nView cards to run two monitors but you
do need two videos cards OR one video card with dual output
that is supported by the operating system used, _FOR_ dual
monitor use.

However, forget about nView because it is just a helper
application, it does not enable multi-monitors nor is it
required.

Put simply, to get dual monitor support from any semi-modern
Geforce card, that card has to have dual outputs. It is
visually obvious, with some combination of DB15 or DVI, but
two total on the back mounting bracket. That's not always
true for other cards, they might have a proprietary
multi-pinned connector that later breaks into several
outputs, but most often on the typical *PC" Geforce cards it
is only with two output sockets.
 
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