I have found it very usefull to have two Monitors on the go. To do this you will first need, needless to say but two monitors and two video cards, one PCI and the other AGP as well as software to support these cards/monitors would be better but not essential. Your OS should be able to recognize both cards when booting up. I found that going into your bios and setting the boot sequence to PCI then AGP works more often than not. When all is fine, meaning no conflicts in your Device manager, you will need to go to your display settings and set the added monitor to be active, from there you can configure the placement of the monitors by dragging the respective screens. If your not sure which monitor is which press the "identify" button. And yes this can be configured to extend your desktop.
Good luck and have fun.
Oh I nearly forgot you can ad as may monitors as you have available slots or at least with Win2000 you can.
How could I connect 2 monitors to 1 CPU? I'm guessing I need a graphics card that has a monitor port in it? Also, when the extra monitor is connected, can the monitors be placed side by side and become one continuous desktop or anything similar to that (have two different displays in each monitor)? Any parts recommendations to do this with?
I have windows xp
1.6 pentium
128 ram
Thank you

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