INTERACT FORUM

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer  (Read 861 times)

ChicoSelfs

  • Regular Member
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 1079
Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
« on: September 18, 2002, 03:50:30 am »

Hi, i want to connect 2 screens on a single computer what do i need? a VGA card with 2 heads is the ideal but $$$, i have a geforce with single head and a s-video out and a PCI vga card can i connect both at the same computer?

Thanks in advance
Logged
Made in Portugal

ChicoSelfs

  • Regular Member
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 1079
RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2002, 05:28:57 am »

bump
Logged
Made in Portugal

Matt

  • Administrator
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 42028
  • Shoes gone again!
RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2002, 05:34:22 am »

With W2K or XP, you should be able to drop in two video cards, and it'll pretty much do the rest.  With other OS's, you'll need two-head cards and driver tricks.

Best of luck.

-Matt
Logged
Matt Ashland, JRiver Media Center

JimH

  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 7604
  • Miller drives a tall-masted tractor on the ocean
RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2002, 05:34:51 am »

You can install two video cards and it can work in recent versions of Windows, but I don't remember which ones.  XP probably will work.

Try it.
Logged
Jim Hillegass
JRiver Media Center / Media Jukebox

ChicoSelfs

  • Regular Member
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 1079
RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2002, 06:15:40 am »

Thanks guys i'll give try i hope don't burn the computer :)
Logged
Made in Portugal

Galley

  • Guest
RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2002, 06:22:56 am »

Dual monitor support is available in Win98 or better.  You have several options.  You can add a second PCI card to an existing AGP card, or you can buy a card that supports dual monitors.  NewEgg.com has cards as low as $58 with dual support.  Make sure the card has a DVI jack in addition to the standard VGA jack.  Also make sure it comes with a DVI to VGA adapter.  ATI offers some nice software with many of their newer cards called Hydravision for added features.  A third option is to hook a TV to the S-video jack of your current card.  My ATI Radeon has this, and I am gonna pick up a 13" JVC flat-screen next week.  The image quality will be less, of course, but if you get a top-notch quality screen such as the JVC AV14F703 or a Sony WEGA, then it should look pretty decent.
Logged

ChicoSelfs

  • Regular Member
  • Citizen of the Universe
  • *****
  • Posts: 1079
RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2002, 06:30:17 am »

Yupiii It works now i am happy, i went to bios setup and put PCI to startup first and then choose like twin view but like an extention of the desktop and voilá it works
Logged
Made in Portugal
Pages: [1]   Go Up