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Second Video for Notebook??

Sep 27, 2004 5:25AM PDT

Does anyone know how to extend the video cabilities of a notebook to have two monitors? I am looking to do some development work and was hoping to use a monitor as a secondary display. Is the a video card thet either runs off the PCMCIA or USB ports I have availible. It only needs to be fast enought to extend the windows desktop, no 3D cabilities. I welcome any thoughts on this.

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Re: Second Video for Notebook??
Sep 27, 2004 5:36AM PDT

There was a pc-card by MARGI but at a few hundred bucks, not many would do that. It also was not as speedy as your onboard video card.

Too bad you didn't share the make/model of your laptop. Some already do twin displays.

Bob

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Re: Second Video for Notebook??
Sep 27, 2004 5:38AM PDT

My Notebook is a Compaq nc6000, Running Windows 2000.

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My bet is the OS isn't stock.
Sep 27, 2004 5:53AM PDT
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Re: My bet is the OS isn't stock.
Sep 27, 2004 8:34AM PDT

I believe the Compaq nc6000 has an ATI 9200 dedicated video card similar to my Compaq X1000 series.

Go into Start/Control panel/ Display -- and see if you can locate the ATI section for the video card.

You should be able to plug in an external monitor into the external monitor jack on the notebook (female pins -- same RGB jack as that seen on desktops) -- then you can either display on the internal monitor only, the external monitor only or on both.

Function F4 toggles I think between the 2 but again you can control all the functions in the ATI area of the Display program in the Control panel.

If you can't figure this out come over to X1000forums.com (dedicated forum for HPZT3000 and Compaq X1000) as there are threads posted there regarding switching between internal and external monitors and also whether you are showing the same image on both (if both enabled) or whether you are 'stretching' the image across both.