multi-monitor set-up

[oliver977]

Hi,

can anybody explain how to succesfully set up two monitors? In other words, what do I need except for two monitors?

Thanks

[SamIAm]

Two monitor ports. So either get a video card with 2 ports on it, or buy a second (cheap) card to add next to your first one. It's not hard.

Windows will do the rest.
-Sam

[kabouter]

A video card with two outputs, I would prefer two of the same screens with a dvi input, and a videocard with two dvi outputs instead of a vga and a dvi output ( you will notice that the screens are different otherwise)

[SamIAm]

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A video card with two outputs, I would prefer two of the same screens with a dvi input, and a videocard with two dvi outputs instead of a vga and a dvi output ( you will notice that the screens are different otherwise)

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Telling people they need a card with 2 outputs is criminal. It's SO much cheaper to get 2 cards, especially if they already own one. I see what you're saying about VGA vs DVI, but the only reason not to do 2 DVI cards is if your case is out of room.
-Sam

[emerton]

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Two monitor ports. So either get a video card with 2 ports on it, or buy a second (cheap) card to add next to your first one. It's not hard.

Windows will do the rest.
-Sam

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Hi.

I have two video cards.
XFX GeForce FX5200 256MB DDR and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS , how to I get them both to work together so I can have 3 monitors? Running win xp

[emerton]

Ill answer this one myself as I just got it working.

If you want to have to cards together, be sure to buy cards that use the same chip-set(?) i.e are the same type, like in my cards its NVIDIA. Dont install the drivers from cd, instead go to nvidia.com and download the latest drivers.
That should be it.

[BiPolar_Nut]

Glad that worked for you, emerton.

That's not the only way to do it though. I ran a tri-head setup at my old office w/ 3 mismatched cards. ATI, trident, and I forget what the AGP one was. Never had a problem.

It is possible some cards may not play nice with each other tho. NVidia is sweet w/ multi-monitor setups, too...they even have donk-n-click multimon driver setup for Suse [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]