Now I do the dance of joy!

wonder if you can stick 2 video cards in one pc?

Yes, or you can get a video card with a TV output, and an adapter to use the TV out for the second monitor. That's what I did.

So, since my card has a normal output, a DVI output and an S-video out, I could have three monitors hooked up? Cool.....

I do it with 2 video cards....

Get an identical video card and you could have six!

I already have a TV out and tuner but turning that on auto changes the resolution to 800x600 and both monitor and TV have the same image.
I want to do the split screen thing.....working image on the big monitor and tools on the small.
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I've got a Geforce FX 5200. 19" on the main out running 1600x1200, my old 17" on the DVI out running 1280x1024. The software that comes with card allows me to span the desktop across both monitors, but have seperate wallpapers.

Neat!Do you have a DVI adapter to the 17?

Yes. The adaptors are very inexpensive.

once you go dual the thought of single seems so ick!

once you go dual the thought of single seems so ick!

Ain't that the truth. I recently bought a new (used) monitor to replace a dying monitor and I ran dual on them. The old one crapped out last night and now I'm sad.

Where do you place the second monitor?

Cousin Balki is back!!!!!!



/me keeps her second screen, a 20 inch LCD upstairs attached to the biggest Holy Cow I own now! There's not room on the downstairs desk to go with 20 inch flat screen CRT! The laptop has it's own desk space as well.....!
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Hi Mr. IRB! Sorry for interrupting your thread! Congrats on your new screen and super-power up to the comp! So what are you gonna do next?

Have a blessed day and lots of fun playing with your new toy!

#9 by IPlural - 7/30/2004 11:58:11 PM once you go dual the thought of single seems so ick!

Amen! I don't know how I got by with one monitor. 

#10 by farkusmarkus - 7/31/2004 12:07:19 AM The old one crapped out last night and now I'm sad.

I think I would cry....  

#11 by I.R. Brainiac - 7/31/2004 12:29:22 AM Where do you place the second monitor?

Mine is setting to the right of the main. 

I had Dual 17"s and one Died, So I ended up with a 17" and a 15", then My 17" Died, My wife only runs 1024x768 so She was happy to take the 15", and Give me a 17" Back, Now I Have a New HP Laptop and it has the wide Screen, and I had to get used to 1280x800, that took some getting used to. Now through the Miracles of MS Remote Desktop, most of my machines are headless. Dual Desktops are the greatest. Also Once you cross the 1.5 to 2 GHZ Area there is hardy any going back there as well. To think back to the days when I upgraded from my DX to a P90 and thought that was fast, and then a P166, crossing the GHZ Barriers, 1+ and 2 is like stepping into First Class on Airplane, and realizing noone cares how far you stretch out your tootsies.

First I'm jealous of all you hotshots running dualies out there and me stuck with my silly old 1/2 ton....jeez just think of the runs I could make to the dump with a nice dualie setup If'n by chance a second monitor should happen to fall from the back of a passing Fedex truck (we have ways of making stuff fall out the backs of trucks here....have you ever had to play 52-pickup with a bag o'trash that bounced out the back of yer pickup on the way to the dump > ), but I digress....If'n you already own an ATi video card with the dualie setup (video and tv) how you go about fixin her up to run dual monitors? What control do you have over screen resolution when your running different size monitors?

....headless machines....what's that? Is that like when you get on down to the bar and get all liquored up and you pick up an ole emachine running a celeron with no monitor and you wake up in the morning wondering what the hell is that sitting on my desk. So you go and cover it with a blanket and go back to bed hoping that she'll be gone when you wake up later in the morning...but I digress....does it mean running more than one machine of a single monitor/mouse/keyboard? If so how's that set up and what the oldest OS you can be running on a headless machine?

Thanks All

Ess,I dont think you can...(I couldnt with mine,ATI rage 128 pro)Newer ones may be resolution independant.Mine would automatically switch both monitors to 800x600 and just show 1 desktop...it was great for watching XVIDs tho...good as satellite tv.

Thanks IR