Dual-Monitor Options - WinXP

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Dual-Monitor Options - WinXP

Post by NicholasDWolfwood » Wed Dec 18, 2002 9:20 pm

Hey, ErMaC. I have a question for you [or anybody else who uses two or more monitors]

When you put two monitors on your system, (Ex. one on VGA connector, one on the DVI-I with a DVI-I -> VGA converter) how does the Display Options take control of that? Like, does it give you seperate settings for each monitor, or what?
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Post by ErMaC » Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:01 am

In XP, yes it's like you have two separate video card controls, like so:

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Notice teh boxes down at the bottom. Initially your #2 monitor will be greyed out, but you click on it and checkmark the "Extend desktop onto this monitor" and you can then move them around and adjust their display properties and such.

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Post by Lyrs » Fri Dec 20, 2002 2:08 pm

Darn! ErMac, do you really have a Radeon 9700 card?

I want one of those for christmas!

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Post by NicholasDWolfwood » Fri Dec 20, 2002 2:54 pm

He has a Radeon 9000 Pro, and I'm getting a Sis315 128MB dual-monitor AGP card soon. Big upgrade from some crappy 32MB single monitor TNT2.
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Post by mckeed » Mon Dec 30, 2002 11:46 am

i'm looking into getting the new tripple head matrox card at some point. I allready run two monitors with the matrox g400 and and tv output from my rt2500 realtime card. Its sweet. I would suggest dual monitors to anyone who can afford it. Although once you go in that direction, you never come back.
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Post by dokool » Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:08 pm

Yes, the Radeon 9000 Pro. Good stuff.

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Post by Vlad G Pohnert » Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:59 pm

mckeed wrote:i'm looking into getting the new tripple head matrox card at some point. I allready run two monitors with the matrox g400 and and tv output from my rt2500 realtime card. Its sweet. I would suggest dual monitors to anyone who can afford it. Although once you go in that direction, you never come back.
So How well does the RT2500 work for you. Just wondering....

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