Wiring Solution for GIANT CRT

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chibahawk

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Okay, just to make my Christmas better, at an awful dinner party I was brought into a tiny basement and showed something wrapped up in an old blanket with duct tape.. I was scared

Then I found out I was being offered like a 30" Gateway CRT monitor.. then I was kinda cool with it.

Im moving into a new apartment soon and could definitely use this monitor as an alternate to my LCD.. what I plan on doing is having some kind of double monitor set-up so that I can do my regular browsing on LCD and than have the option of watching movies off my HDD on the giant CRT.. so what do I do? I was thinking an extremely long D-Sub (is that the right term??) wire and just manually switch wires, or are there other options here?

Geeks unite! Solve my problem! and Happy Ho-Lidaze!
 
oooooooooh p.s.:

the monitor only has ONE connector and its a standard old school CRT connection.. would that be D-Sub or do I not know what I'm talking about? Anyway it's the 20 or so pinned connector thats about an Inch wide and is usually blue...
 
the 20 or so usually blue connector is probably a vga connector. if you want to manually switch the connector, you would have to check that you're lcd has the same vga connection. just to verify, is this the connection you are talking about?
dual_vga_cable.jpg

if you don't want to manually switch, you can get a videocard with two vga ports.
 
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