Duel monitor help

kobaj

kobaj

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Hello, Could enyone give me a good guide on how to set up my bios or pin things on my mobo to alow me to have my duel monitors with onboard and a pci graphics card.Thanks.
 
You need to have dual outputs from your graphics card. Some have dual DVI (digital) out and some have one DVI and one VGA - but you can convert the DVI signal to analogue so that you have dual analague out. The type of output that you require depends on the monitors that you have.

Newer NVidia cards (and ATI as well I'm sure) have software that allows you to configure multiple monitors. An image can stretch across both - or you can run different apps in either one and switch between using the mouse.

They key is the graphics card. You can also do something similar if you have an onboard graphics chip and another video card, but onboard graphics can be a little limited :)
 
...Ya and... Dont want to be rude but, you can have duel monitors with onboard graphics and a pci card. I just decided to try it with my extra pci card and it worked. You dont alwase nead duel monitor cards because you can also do it with software and an ethernet cable.
 
schmeggin said:
You need to have dual outputs from your graphics card. Some have dual DVI (digital) out and some have one DVI and one VGA - but you can convert the DVI signal to analogue so that you have dual analague out. The type of output that you require depends on the monitors that you have.

Newer NVidia cards (and ATI as well I'm sure) have software that allows you to configure multiple monitors. An image can stretch across both - or you can run different apps in either one and switch between using the mouse.

They key is the graphics card. You can also do something similar if you have an onboard graphics chip and another video card, but onboard graphics can be a little limited :)
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I think we covered the onboard stuff in a previous post :)
 
Woops, I'm sorry... I read the first paragraph and thought you were going to say that the whole way through your post, but technicly(SP?) you didnt answer my question. :P
 
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