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Title: Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
Post by: ChicoSelfs 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

Title: RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
Post by: ChicoSelfs on September 18, 2002, 05:28:57 am

bump

Title: RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
Post by: Matt 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

Title: RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
Post by: JimH 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.

Title: RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
Post by: ChicoSelfs on September 18, 2002, 06:15:40 am

Thanks guys i'll give try i hope don't burn the computer :)

Title: RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
Post by: Galley 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.

Title: RE:Off-Topic Connecting 2 sreens on one computer
Post by: ChicoSelfs 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