dual monitors

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Mary E. Hill

I'm considering setting up dual monitors. I do heavy graphic work (you know,
50 little pallet windows open all over my screen) and I don't really know
anything about that setup.

Can anyone give me a general rundown on how that's setup?

TIA,

Mary
 
Mary E. Hill said:
I'm considering setting up dual monitors. I do heavy graphic work (you know,
50 little pallet windows open all over my screen) and I don't really know
anything about that setup.

Can anyone give me a general rundown on how that's setup?

This is the best overall guide that I've found, and it's also the most
comprehensive:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/guide/

Jon
 
Mary E. Hill said:
I'm considering setting up dual monitors. I do heavy graphic work (you know,
50 little pallet windows open all over my screen) and I don't really know
anything about that setup.

Can anyone give me a general rundown on how that's setup?

TIA,

Mary

i have used multi monitors for years, im surprised others dont as i think
its a fantastic thing, and i dont do gfx, programming etc, just normal day
to day things.

That wesbite the other guy gave should be all you need, i recently lost my
drivers so now stuck with one, also called dual monitor i belive.

Some games dont like 2 monitors, can be a bit of trial and error if you have
one agp and one pci, i have never had a dual card but always used 2 cards.
 
Julian Hales said:
i have used multi monitors for years, im surprised others dont as i think
its a fantastic thing, and i dont do gfx, programming etc, just normal day
to day things.

That wesbite the other guy gave should be all you need, i recently lost my
drivers so now stuck with one, also called dual monitor i belive.

Some games dont like 2 monitors, can be a bit of trial and error if you
have
one agp and one pci, i have never had a dual card but always used 2 cards.

That site doesn't mention about the actual cables from the computer to the
monitors - I was planning to purchase an eVGA GeForce FX 5500 128mb AGP
video card (probably more info than you wanted). Does this give you two
spots to plug both monitor cables into it or do I have to buy somekind of
adapter? I can't picture the actual physical hookup situation...

Thanks for the info!!

Mary
 
That site doesn't mention about the actual cables from the computer to the
monitors - I was planning to purchase an eVGA GeForce FX 5500 128mb AGP
video card (probably more info than you wanted). Does this give you two
spots to plug both monitor cables into it or do I have to buy somekind of
adapter? I can't picture the actual physical hookup situation...

Don't know about that card in particular, but my Radeon 8500 card (nearly 2
years old) has 2 outputs (3 if you include TV out). There is one DVI
connector for TFT screens and one normal VGA connector. The card also came
with an adapter which turns the DVI port into a second normal VGA port. I
would expect a newer card to have something similar.
 
Gareth Tuckwell said:
Don't know about that card in particular, but my Radeon 8500 card (nearly
2 years old) has 2 outputs (3 if you include TV out). There is one DVI
connector for TFT screens and one normal VGA connector. The card also came
with an adapter which turns the DVI port into a second normal VGA port. I
would expect a newer card to have something similar.

Yay!! Good answer:) This sounds like it's going to be a piece of cake to
set up! <fingers crossed>
 
Mary E. Hill's log on stardate 02 stu 2004
Wonderful, Jon! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!

Be advised, however, that not many cards have quality DH support. If I
were you, I would only consider Matrox and nVidia Quadro (NVS or any
other).
 
Mary E. Hill said:
Yay!! Good answer:) This sounds like it's going to be a piece of cake to
set up! <fingers crossed>

It is! You just have to wire the stuff (be sure to connect your 'primary'
monitor to the primary' output) and push the button.

Only I have a nVidia and the card must be able to 'see' the second monitor
or it will switch to single-monitor mode.
This is nasty if you have your second monitor 'shared' with a second PC
using a simple switch box that physically switches between my two computers.
This takes my extreme caution when booting my system (or a reboot, more if I
again forgot to turn the switch).
So ensure you have the cables in place (it doesn't care if the monitor is
turned on ar anything, the cables make the difference).
And my PC does take about 4 minutes to get up and running.
 
That site doesn't mention about the actual cables from the computer to the
monitors - I was planning to purchase an eVGA GeForce FX 5500 128mb AGP
video card (probably more info than you wanted). Does this give you two
spots to plug both monitor cables into it or do I have to buy somekind of
adapter? I can't picture the actual physical hookup situation...

Thanks for the info!!

Mary

dont know that card, plus im years behind in gfx cards.

some cards have 2 normal monitor connections, a lot seem to have diferant
types, so none the same, hence i often use 2 gfx cards.

not up on the latest stuff. sorry
 
"Mary E. Hill"
I was planning to purchase an eVGA GeForce FX 5500 128mb AGP
video card (probably more info than you wanted). Does this give you two
spots to plug both monitor cables into it or do I have to buy somekind of
adapter? I can't picture the actual physical hookup situation...

Going by the pictures at newegg.com for that item, it has two outputs, one
DVI and one VGA. It also comes with an adaptor to use the DVI output as
VGA.

Jon
 
Julian Hales said:
That wesbite the other guy gave should be all you need, i recently lost my
drivers so now stuck with one, also called dual monitor i belive.

Julian,

What video card that you lost the driver for? I might be able to find one
for you.
 
Bronney Hui said:
Julian,

What video card that you lost the driver for? I might be able to find one
for you.

Hello

Its the SAME card/s that i had in a system for years, which went up in
flames. I had backed up the whole lot of drivers (like i do for all my
pc's) and when i reinstelled it i got a message that the dual monitor
support wasnt supported and see my gfx card maker.

I have a feeling its not that, it was a few weeks ago and i forget things
after 5 min never mind a few weeks. I have a feeling i had 1 pci and 1 agp
card which had worked for years.

Trouble is i have of gfx cards around me as i type, i build and give away to
poor people refurb machines so i cant be sure which of the agp/pci cards
it was, if i put things away safe i never find them, so at least if i have
them lying around sooner or later im bound to trip over them.

MInd you i have JUST noticed a Appian Gfx Jeronimo card in front of me, this
was a good card years ago, dual vga and i have a feeling i could never find
the drivers after another fire caused a machine to fail. fcc id:HZF J2NB
U101 pci 13204-Q Dual Cirrus Logic

i always used drivers.com? / driverguide.com ? but recently not found what i
was looking for even tho it said it was correct.

Im not too worried, i have picked up some old compaq pro workstations with
dual cards /dual svga connections on a mix of maxtor and GLoria cards so
these are going to take my time up as its a pain as i had to download all
the drivers from HP and unpack to 3.5 floppies and its taking me half a day
for each machine just to do that as there is a bug in the bios. Got SE to
work ok on a couple and the rest maybe for linux.

AH yes i did orig have one agp and one pci, ati 8mb agp and some pci which
what i thought was the correct drivers, maybe it was the system itself.

Orig it was a AMD 350, 128 ram, couple of gxcards, scsi etc and was v v
stable, soon as it blew up i rigged up a almost same spec Intel machine
which now slugs along, gives me hang ups and bsod's and gennerally isnt up
to speed on keeping my lan going. I ran all the scsi drives off a seperate
psu so really wasnt pushing it too hard. No sound card in either.

This machine freezes a lot when i pull files from its hd's from my lan, it
cant seem to cope with reading from one hd and writing to another (both
scsi) at the same time compard to the AMD machine, same scsi setup. All the
machine does really is email, web, hold my mp3's for the lan and keep
important data, so nothing intensive.
 
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 01:10:43 GMT, "Julian Hales"

Trouble is i have of gfx cards around me as i type, i build and give away to
poor people refurb machines so i cant be sure which of the agp/pci cards
it was, if i put things away safe i never find them, so at least if i have
them lying around sooner or later im bound to trip over them.

If WIndows, booted to safe mode you might find leftover
entries in Device Manager that hint at the previous cards.
 
kony said:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 01:10:43 GMT, "Julian Hales"



If WIndows, booted to safe mode you might find leftover
entries in Device Manager that hint at the previous cards.

checked that.
 
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