Dual Monitors

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spikey101

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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.
 
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.
 
liuliuboy said:
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.
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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...
 
The_Other_One said:
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...
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well i thought he was saying running them together, like SLI or cross, except using one PCI-E card and one PCI card :cool:
 
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...
 
FYI.... Alot of video cards will only allow you to use a certain DVI output to hook the DVD-Analog adapter to.
 
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