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Original Message 1/11 02-Aug-01 @ 02:57 PM - dual-monitor setups

steve

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can anyone fill me in here on whats required to get this going and how I`d go about seperating what I want onto different screens?

I`m being given a 15" monitor soon so I thought it would be nice to have one monitor above my desk and efx for displaying logics mixer + plugins and then keep this one by the smapler for the midi saide of things, kinda like a mini programming suite.

So is this possible? Win98 (not se), logic silver 4.7

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Message 2/11 02-Aug-01 @ 02:58 PM - RE: dual-monitor setups

steve

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sorry, and a crappy agp videcard built in to my mobo if thats relevant at all.

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Message 3/11 02-Aug-01 @ 05:01 PM - RE: dual-monitor setups

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If you're talking about a true dual-head setup, where you run both monitors simultaneously and independently, then you'll need a new video card. You'd have to disable the one on your mobo.. It does have an AGP slot to expand with, right?

ATI Radeon VE, Matrox G400/G450 dual head, and there's an nVidia card. You'll need one of those, I think they go for between $75 and $150 US. Software will be included.

Otherwise, if you just wanna switch 'em off 1 at a time, there's boxes to do that (select between different keyboards and monitors).

-Craig

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Message 4/11 02-Aug-01 @ 08:38 PM - RE: dual-monitor setups

steve

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aw, fuck - no agp slot, not even any chance of a spare pci or isa on this pile of shit

Cheers for your help anyway Craig, its appreciated.

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Message 5/11 05-Aug-01 @ 04:01 AM - RE: dual-monitor setups

yams

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It probably never allowed it anyway. Some motherboards will not allow a dual monitor setup. I have a setup (or used to before the big crash) with a ASUS mobo with a pci voodoo3000 and an agp ati radeon. I tried to use the voodoo with a cheap video card but the system didn't allow it.

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Message 6/11 06-Aug-01 @ 01:42 AM - RE: dual-monitor setups

BJT

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Yams is it the mobo causing it or is the PCI video card hogging the PCI Bus,
I remember that alot of the old PCI video cards won't work with another
video card for this reason.

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Message 7/11 06-Aug-01 @ 01:52 AM - RE: dual-monitor setups

yams

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Probably, I never was able to get 2 pci cards working together but thats probable because of the one crappy one. Some mobo's will tell you straight up in bios that it does not support 2 video cards.

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Message 8/11 06-Aug-01 @ 02:52 PM - RE: dual-monitor setups

99devils

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Well, the machines really aren't set up to handle 2 video cards at once, I don't think. I have no experience with that.. You're probably right, it's a motherboard thing. You may want to take a second look now though. What I'm talking about are single cards with the ability to drive 2 monitors from one card.

-Craig

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Message 9/11 06-Aug-01 @ 04:55 PM - RE: dual-monitor setups

PointBeing

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mine worked just fine, i used the onboard video (shit agp stuff, like yours, without an agp slot) and a voodoo3 2000, except i was using win2k, so i cant make any garauntees about quality. Pick up a voodoo3 2000 for cheap and give it a go. and i was using two 17" monitors :0)

aaron

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Message 10/11 11-Aug-01 @ 01:42 PM - RE: dual-monitor setups

steve

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thanks, but I have no free slots of any kind

I`ll refer back to this thread once I`m finally able to dump this piece of crap for something that actually works properly and stuff, ta.

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