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2 monitors, 1 cpu

Mar 2, 2004 10:52AM PST

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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Re:2 monitors, 1 cpu
Mar 4, 2004 4:43AM PST

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.

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Re:2 monitors, 1 cpu
Mar 4, 2004 9:11AM PST

you can buy graphics cards that support more than one monitor but they are expensive. two graphics cards are usually the cheaper solution. i wouldn't recommend it until you get some more RAM. i would start with adding another 256M more.

Herb...