Galahad
Apr 5 2006, 10:17 AM
Well, most of the people already covered all the alternatives, I'll just add my two cents here... Besides S-Video, and Composite out, you can buy a card with additioal DVI port... I have Ati Radeon 9250 on work, and it has one standard VGA port, one S-Video port, and one DVI port... DVI is the one you plug LCD monitors into... But, there are DVI-to-VGA converters, they are tiny boxes, and are probably priced under 3 dollars... You plug it into your graphics cards DVI port, then you plug your analog (standard VGA) cable into this converter, and voila! You have an instant two monitors... Those were my two cents  Now, as for your inquiry, wether 2 graphics cards will work together, the answer is yes, they will. Without any additional software I believe... We used Xentera's for our projects, and we were looking for a cheaper seolution (Xenteras are graphics cards, that provide 8 separate VGA ports, and cost roughly arround 2000 dollars)... So, we tried 4, dual head graphics cards, and we got the same result, even better in some situations... And I believe it worked perfectly without any additional software, all was natively supported in Windows XP... Since there are no cards with two AGP slots (or at least not widely available), we used PCI cards... The age of cards should not matter, they are supposed to work together, no matter who made them... Just plug them both in, boot your Windows, install drivers for your "new" graphics card, and you should get those two monitors in your display properties... Then just set them up, and you're all set... I use two monitors for work, and they are great advantage when you have a lot of things to do, use one as workspace, other - place all the tools there, and you have a great increase in viewable work area...
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antwill
Apr 5 2006, 12:08 PM
Wow i never knew that i could use two monitors but according to you i can, thanks. But i think you may be wrong about the dual graphics cards. I may be wrong but i believe that you need a motherboard that supports that. The sli type motherboards supports them. But i may be wrong although i am fairly certain that im not as i had previously asked a friend about this subject a month ago when i was looking at a new computer.
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Inspiron
Apr 6 2006, 04:49 AM
Galahad had pointed DVI and Composite port which I've missed out. They are too the alternatives. However, they are built on different technologies which suppose to work together in terms of working with multiple monitors simultaneously. Hence you will need to know how they work before plugging them and configuring to work together.. Here I'm found some help which you will definately like to look into. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/s...p_multimon.mspxhttp://www.ehow.com/how_13829_connect-two-monitors.html
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kylelnsn
May 10 2006, 10:29 PM
nope i dont think so you need a grhpx card that support dual monitor and that it is all compatiable, sorry
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Helium
May 14 2006, 04:13 PM
My GeForce 5500FX has three output ports, standard monitor, digital output and S-video. All I have to do is plug in a second monitor (flatscreen) or s-video device, reboot and play around a bit with my nvidia drivers...
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iGuest
Jan 1 2008, 10:53 PM
The sims 2 monitor stuff up
Double Monitor Question
Whilst playing the sims 2, At random times the screen will just go to a blue loading screen then after it does it about 3 or 4 times the monitor cuts out and says "no signal input". Can someone help me PLEASE. I checked and the video card is a NVIDIA GeForce 6600,which is compatible and I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers, I have lowered the graphics settings on the Sims 2 and I don't no what else to do. Would I need a new monitor or video card????? -Ryan
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