Can you get video cards set up so that you can use 2 different ones?

yes

how do you set up dual monitors? just use the one crt jack and get a dvi to crt adapter for the other one? i have an ati 9600 and i think the hydravision thing has something to do with the set up.

if i were to get a seperate pci card, how would that work?

well its quite easy get one of these


http://131.151.188.57:8080/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5911

check my other post

use the adapter turns the dvi to crt and allows you to hook up a normal monitor
then you can just config the displays in windows display settings

? just im me with msn im always on

If your card has the ability for dual monitors, and I think yours does. You should then check to see if you have a DVI-I connector. It looks like this:


(ignore the front and back markings, they don't apply in this case)

Now you can buy an adapter and put two analog monitors on that vid card. I don't recomend Hydravision, it isn't very good. Search seek42, get and crack UltraMon. It's the sweetness for mulit-monitors.

If you wan't mulitple vid-cards. Just install it like you would any other vid card, just without removing the other video card first. Boot the computer, install the drivers, configure windows in the display properites dialogue, and get UltraMon. I'm usually at my computer in the afternoons (M-W-F) or evenings (T-R) if you want to AIM me, or just post here again.

--EDIT--

UltraMon is here

\\WhtHawk\Documents\UltraMon

I was wondering about his myself...
If I put in two different vid cards... how does that work.
For example:
One is a high end gaming card... the other is an all-in-wonder that allows me to watch tv and what not. I hook up a monitor to both of them.

Can I get it to look like one big screen still?
If so... if I drag an "intense" game from my "gaming cards" monitor and place it on the monitor with the car I'd use primarily as a tv tuner... would it still play well? Like wise would I be able to watch TV on the other monitor since it is hooked up to the gaming card?

Those are the two main questions...

thanx,
brandito

thats a good ?, and to be honest im not entirely sure


is teh all in wounder a good card, or just a card with tuning capapbilities, like if it was a 9600 or 9800 all in, then it would run games great, but if it was one of the older series with a lower processor freq and less mem then it would have trouble running games, as for the using the tv on different cards, tecnacally yes but it all depeneds on the software

you should be able to watch tv fine on either monitor, but you will only be able to play games at full speed on the one monitor

but almost any decent video card these days will have 2 outputs, so it shouldnt be much of a problem

then what if you had 2 lcds and wanted to use the dvi? would you then have to get a second vid card with dvi?

nope youd need a crt to dvi adapter

they go both ways my friend

i thought the reason why vid cards came with dvi connectors was specifically for lcds? i read it was a quality issue. but oh well



ha ha, he said they go both ways.

like a bisexual.

yeas ted, that was the joke.



geez, im just full of family guy quotes

yea, dvi connectors on vid cards are better quality when using a digital monitor, but there is little differenece between dvi and dvi/crt adapters, but yea if your going with 2 digital its better to get 2 dvi outws on the card

Ok, here is the deal with games. Games will only play on the primary monitor, the number one(1) monitor in Windows display properties. Most intense games (ie C&C..name it, Unreal...whatever, ect) will launch full screen and stay on that monitor. Some games lik C&C don't like more than one monitor, period. You have to disable the second monitor or your ability to scroll around the map is limmited.

As for multiple LCD monitors, check the monitors, there is no need to pay for dual Digital outs if your LCD screens only support analog(RGB, DB15) input.

As for RGB (DB15) to DVI, they arn't much good.

There are two types of DVI connectors first is the one pictured above. It is a DVI-I connector, also referred to a DVI-A. This connector can be used to connect an analog monitor to the card with an adapter. The second is DVI-D. The "-D" is for DIGITAL, that means it only supports digital moniors:

The difference is the four pins around the long flat connector, seen as a cross shaped opening on the DVI-I(DVI-A) connector, those extra pins carry the data an analog monitor needs to display the visual informaton.

For a more accurate and detailed information on DVI here is a good start: http://www.datapro.net/dvi.html


Questions, comments? Please post again.

thank you whthawk

you put it into better words then i can think of right now