Dual Monitor--Why O Why not...

[theonetruegod]

Never been one for setting up two monitors on one PC but one PC went down for a couple of days so I thought why not....

Picked up monitor and took it over to other one and plugged it into the on-board video slot.... and left the other one plugged into the AGP card... and booted up.

What no second monitor, why I wonder.

Searching around seems it cant be done. As there both AGP! We can put men on the moon but cant have the on-board AGP working with a AGP card. Next you will be telling we didn't really goto the moon.

Or am I wrong?

Ideas.

[washe]

Well it can be tecnical limitation of your mobo, but some video cards around let you hook two monitors to the same videocard....

And for dual monitor on a system with and AGP card or onboard, you will need a PCI video card to have dual monitors...

[Peter M]

This is because one cannot have more than one AGP device.

ATI's latest integrated-VGA chipsets can pull the trick though, transmogrifying the integrated one into a PCI device when an AGP card is plugged. All others simply hide the internal one if an AGP card is in. With a PCI card inserted, they stay however.

[theonetruegod]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peter M

This is because one cannot have more than one AGP device.

ATI's latest integrated-VGA chipsets can pull the trick though, transmogrifying the integrated one into a PCI device when an AGP card is plugged. All others simply hide the internal one if an AGP card is in. With a PCI card inserted, they stay however.

This has got to be the way Mobos have to be made... grrrrrrrr ro everyone else.

Thanks will read up on ATIs chipset. Dont think am goingt o rush out and get one :-D

Thanks.

[devily]

Perhaps you may want to try www.maxivista.com, but only if you have two computers. Maxivista allows to use a secondary PC as an additional (dual) display of your primary box.

Devily