Dual Monitors

spikey101 · 02-22-2006, 09:39 PM

Hi,

I have just got a second monitor and i need to get it working, i have 2 video cards i have a pci-express card and a normal pci one (got it by mistake when building my pc - Wrong choice) The one monitor works fine, its running off the pci-express card (the card has 2 sockets vga and dvi the 2 monitors have vga connectors) i have heard that if you run 2 monitors of one card its bad so i thought of using the spare normal pci one i still got but when i put the pci one into the motherboard neither monitors work but when i take it back out my 'main' monitor works again.

so how can i get the pci card to work, or can i run 2 monitors of one card.

thanks.

diduknowthat · 02-22-2006, 09:46 PM

well that's cause you can't run a computer with two vid cards unless they're in SLI or crossfire, which they are not. If you want dual monitors you'll have to run them off one card.

**The_Other_One** · 02-22-2006, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by liuliuboy

well that's cause you can't run a computer with two vid cards unless they're in SLI or crossfire, which they are not. If you want dual monitors you'll have to run them off one card.

TOTALLY wrong dude... Windows 98 was capable of running a good amount of monitors without any problem. Eh, unless you were saying something about running two different video cards as one ^^;

Looks like TheChef beat me, though... You can run using two different video cards, but it's best anymore to just use a single if it's capable...

diduknowthat · 02-22-2006, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by The_Other_One

TOTALLY wrong dude... Windows 98 was capable of running a good amount of monitors without any problem. Eh, unless you were saying something about running two different video cards as one ^^;

Looks like TheChef beat me, though... You can run using two different video cards, but it's best anymore to just use a single if it's capable...

well i thought he was saying running them together, like SLI or cross, except using one PCI-E card and one PCI card

TheChef · 02-22-2006, 10:01 PM

Running them both off the PCI-Express card requires a simple adapter.

**The_Other_One** · 02-22-2006, 10:07 PM

Ah...alrighty ^^;;; Sorry about that. Now you do know it's apparently possible to run a video card in a slower PCIe slot and still have SLI, right? Of course not a plain ol PCI slot, but yeah...

spikey101 · 02-23-2006, 05:59 PM

So i can use the dvi to vga adaptor to run 2 monitors, will that be ok.

TheChef · 02-23-2006, 08:07 PM

Yup.

JSquier · 02-23-2006, 10:15 PM

FYI.... Alot of video cards will only allow you to use a certain DVI output to hook the DVD-Analog adapter to.

02-22-2006, 09:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
spikey101 Bronze Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 76	Dual Monitors Hi, I have just got a second monitor and i need to get it working, i have 2 video cards i have a pci-express card and a normal pci one (got it by mistake when building my pc - Wrong choice) The one monitor works fine, its running off the pci-express card (the card has 2 sockets vga and dvi the 2 monitors have vga connectors) i have heard that if you run 2 monitors of one card its bad so i thought of using the spare normal pci one i still got but when i put the pci one into the motherboard neither monitors work but when i take it back out my 'main' monitor works again. so how can i get the pci card to work, or can i run 2 monitors of one card. thanks.

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02-22-2006, 10:07 PM	#6 (permalink)
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02-23-2006, 05:59 PM	#7 (permalink)
spikey101 Bronze Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 76	So i can use the dvi to vga adaptor to run 2 monitors, will that be ok.

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