Dual monitors
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Topic: Dual monitors
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Dual monitors
Date Posted: 25 July 2004 at 4:29pm
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I'm going to be buying a second monitor for my PC. I have a
GeForce2 MX400 graphics card which claims it can have dual
monitors. In the settings, I see dual monitor options.
However, physically I can't plug a second one in, because it only has
one monitor output on the actual card! Have they made a mistake or something? Do I need to buy a new graphics card? |
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 July 2004 at 5:56pm
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The GeForce2 MX400 is a GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) that's used by many video card manufactures. The GPU supports dual monitors but it's not always implemented on a particular card. Some manufactures have an S-video/TV-Out connector on their MX400 card which can be used as an additional monitor. ------------- 
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 25 July 2004 at 6:18pm
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Ok, so I guess i'll get a new card. There are some cheap ones
I've seen that support 2 monitors (i'm not looking for performance, I
don't really do anything that requires an uber fast card) Thanks |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 26 July 2004 at 1:46am
| I think if you have a slot in the mother board to Plug another display card, WIndows XP can do it. But there is no motherboards with 2 AGP slots, and finding a PCI display card is something VERY difficult. |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 26 July 2004 at 3:31am
Just easier for me to buy a card with two inputs. 
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 26 July 2004 at 6:33am
| I have two monitors so I am going to get a new card soon. However I want to wait until have have two monitors that both support dvi-input. |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 26 July 2004 at 3:47pm
you mean output, right? I had one before I sold my computer.. MSI Starforce something with nVidia Ti4800SE GPU (not one PC monitor and one TV, but two PC monitors and one TV).. |
Gullanian wrote:Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 27 July 2004 at 8:44pm
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i've always wanted two monitors... i think i'll buy two monitors when i get a job. i always run out of desktop space. Do you know what would be really cool, but i don't think it's possible without expensive hardware would be to run diagnostics in two smaller monitors and then have your clear desktop on the big monitor... that way you could look at your diagnostics during testing without having any obstructions ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 27 July 2004 at 8:45pm
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imagine what you could do with a matrix screensaver on that... get like 20 lcds and run the matrix code on all of them... ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 28 July 2004 at 5:02am
| Im getting dual TFT's :) They will look nice, and be very useful. |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 28 July 2004 at 12:57pm
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dual monitors would be really nice if you worked in adobe premiere a lot... you could spread out your workspace more... anybody that's used the program would know exactly what i'm talking about ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 28 July 2004 at 1:00pm
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I have a 19 inch CRT and a 19 inch LCD. i use the CRT for gaming and the LCD for other apps. Its nice to have ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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