I've got a 2 monitors and a tv (via s-video) connected to my video card and I was wondering if there was a way to have all 3 active. it'll only let me do my primary plus one other at a time.

i'm wondering if there is a way to do this without using another video card

11/8/2007 5:07:15 PM

highly doubtful

11/8/2007 5:28:18 PM

this is entirely possible



with another video card

11/8/2007 5:50:25 PM

Your video card can probably only handle 2 outputs. Grab a cheap pci video card and you'll be able to do 4.

11/8/2007 6:00:33 PM

ballin, i've got 2 extra gpus laying around, i just didn't know if i had to use them

in doing so, would i be able to have 4 extended desktops or would they have to be all clones? or some mixture of the two?

11/8/2007 10:01:24 PM

you can definitely have 3 desktops, possibly 4 depending on the pci card

11/9/2007 2:26:26 AM

^Yeah depending on the card you can probably have 4 desktops. Most newer video cards are capable of 2 outputs, dvi/dvi, or vga/dvi.

11/9/2007 9:25:59 AM

ok i've got both cards installed but one isn't working correctly

11/9/2007 9:31:12 PM

they should either both be nvidia or both be ATI. What kind of cards are they?

11/9/2007 10:12:00 PM

both nvidia

11/10/2007 12:39:11 AM

both compatible with the same nvidia drivers? I guess you could try installing the latest and restarting.

11/10/2007 12:59:07 AM

hmm i'm actually not sure, one is a geforce4mmx 4000
and the other is an 8500

i also was able to get the onboard video working with teh card so i have 3 displays right now but i wanted to possibly add my other 2

11/10/2007 12:22:41 PM

so you went from having 2 monitors and a tv to 5? good luck with that

11/13/2007 2:22:20 PM

Matrox TripleHead2Go

11/13/2007 2:24:42 PM

^ that matrox crap is waaay expensive. i almost got one of those about 6 months ago, looks sweet as heck, but be prepared to pay an arm and a leg

11/14/2007 11:53:52 AM