Dual Moniter Setup

V

Velocity Hobbies

New Member
I recently purchased a Nvidia Geforce MX440 8x AGP 128MB Dual Head Video Card, so I could have a dual monitor setup. I thought I could have one monitor on my intigrated video card, and one on the new video card. When I was trying to set it up, my computer was only seeing the new video card, not both. I called tech support, and they said that you can't have one monitor on one video card, and another one on the other. So then I asked them if I can hook up 2 monitors to the new video card, and they said no, because this is not a dual monitor video card, even though this card has 2 ports, a VGA port, and a DVI port. I just want to make sure that they were correct, before I buy a different video card.
 
Velocity Hobbies said:
I thought I could have one monitor on my intigrated video card, and one on the new video card.
Click to expand...
I just got an NVIDIA card (A very cheap one though), and I'm sure that you can do that. In fact, I had trouble getting everything onto one screen. When I installed everything on the CD, I could go to: Right click desktop- Settings and there would be a big number 1 and number 2. Here I could select which monitor (meaning which card) that everything would be sent out of. If you have this, try messing around with it. (Then again, I had just a regular PCI card so it might be different)
 
I think the fact is, you have to have a dual monitor support on the video card... I guess you don't (like you said). I don't understand why your card would not (its obviously better), while mine does (MX4000 64MB, got it for $20). Is the card disabled in the control panel? Otherwise, I don't know what the problem is.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top