hooking up 2 pcs to one 1 pc. help?

**DrkShadowSonic** · November 13th, 2005, 06:05 PM

okay. i have an XP. and it does have 2 hook ups in the back for 2 monitors. i have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card.

so i hook up both monitors. i turn on the pc. and go to the display and the settings tab. but only 1 monitor shows. i have read (in other places) that 2 are suppose to show. am i suppose to install the second monitor first or wat? i'm very lost.

I need help ASAP. thanks!

**mjolnir1134** · November 13th, 2005, 06:14 PM

wait.. what are you trying to do, put a dual monitor setup?

**DrkShadowSonic** · November 13th, 2005, 06:18 PM

im trying to expand the screen. um, make it so my screen is on both monitors. so like, i can have a (for example) Word maximized on one monitor and IE/Firefox maximized on the other and have it so i can use both.. um i hope that explains it.

my problem seems to be i can't get the second pc to show in the display

**paul9** · November 13th, 2005, 06:21 PM

Have a cruise thrugh the advanced settings, and in particular, the Nvidia tab.

**Detritus** · November 13th, 2005, 06:21 PM

Are you trying to run two monitors off one video card or do you have the other monitor hooked up to onboard video?

**stroyal** · November 13th, 2005, 06:24 PM

To cover both screens with one window, you need a program like ATIs Hydravision, but XP should run 2 seperate windows by itself. I set up XP last week, and 2 monitors started working by itself. This is with 1 video card.

**DrkShadowSonic** · November 13th, 2005, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by paul9

Have a cruise thrugh the advanced settings, and in particular, the Nvidia tab.

i did and i can't find anything that looks like it will help

Originally Posted by Detritus

Are you trying to run two monitors off one video card or do you have the other monitor hooked up to onboard video?

umm.. i think on the same vid card. like. all i have is 1 vid card and i pluged the extra monitor into the "integrated video connector" (as the dell handbook calls it) so yea..

sryy i'm kinda a newbe when it comes to things like this

**stroyal** · November 13th, 2005, 06:29 PM

You need to switch to the intergrated video card and install the drivers first, or wich ever one is not installed yet.

Intergrated won't have two ports, so you must have 2 cards.

**DrkShadowSonic** · November 13th, 2005, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by stroyal

You need to switch to the intergrated video card and install the drivers first, or wich ever one is not installed yet.

woh wait wat? lol. okay. so it says that both monitors are "integreated video" so the default one is near the base of the tower, which is working. the second "IV" is near the top, and that one is displaying nothing on the screen.

so. with that said. wat do i need to do exactly? prefeably step by step cuz i'm alittle slow at this

**Detritus** · November 13th, 2005, 06:33 PM

Can you even run both integrated video and agp/pci express video at the same time? I thought as soon as a card was plugged into the agp slot/pci express slot onboard video was disabled...

**stroyal** · November 13th, 2005, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Detritus

Can you even run both integrated video and agp/pci express video at the same time? I thought as soon as a card was plugged into the agp slot/pci express slot onboard video was disabled...

Not sure about XP, but I run a WIN98 computer with intergrated and a PCI card with no other software.

**stroyal** · November 13th, 2005, 06:38 PM

double post

**DrkShadowSonic** · November 13th, 2005, 06:40 PM

okay, i did not understand any of that at all. i know that you can have 2 monitors on xp. i'm almost positive. cuz in one of the dell help menus on the pc, there is a thing you can go threw if you are having problems with having 2 monitors. and yes i did it but my problem is the second pc (on the display tab) is not showing up

**Detritus** · November 13th, 2005, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by stroyal

Not sure about XP, but I run a WIN98 computer with intergrated and a PCI card with no other software.

Yeah, that'll work, but I don't think you can do that with onboard vid and AGP/PCI express...

I think that may be why his isn't working...

**stroyal** · November 13th, 2005, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by DrkShadowSonic

woh wait wat? lol. okay. so it says that both monitors are "integreated video" so the default one is near the base of the tower, which is working. the second "IV" is near the top, and that one is displaying nothing on the screen.

so. with that said. wat do i need to do exactly? prefeably step by step cuz i'm alittle slow at this

You probably have Intergrated and PCI or AGP. The AGP or the PCI will be the one in the expantion slot and the onboard will be with the one with the ports like serial sound and paralel

**Detritus** · November 13th, 2005, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by DrkShadowSonic

okay, i did not understand any of that at all. i know that you can have 2 monitors on xp. i'm almost positive. cuz in one of the dell help menus on the pc, there is a thing you can go threw if you are having problems with having 2 monitors. and yes i did it but my problem is the second pc (on the display tab) is not showing up

Yes, you can have two monitors.

Originally Posted by DrkShadowSonic

woh wait wat? lol. okay. so it says that both monitors are "integreated video" so the default one is near the base of the tower, which is working. the second "IV" is near the top, and that one is displaying nothing on the screen.

It sounds like your Nvidia 5200 is working, but the integrated (located higher on the PC by the other ports) isn't. If your Nvidia 5200 is AGP I don't believe you can use both vid cards. If it is PCI you can.

LOL

Make sense?

**stroyal** · November 13th, 2005, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Detritus

Yes, you can have two monitors.

It sounds like your Nvidia 5200 is working, but the integrated (located higher on the PC by the other ports) isn't. If your Nvidia 5200 is AGP I don't believe you can use both vid cards. If it is PCI you can.

LOL

Make sense?

Does it mater if the onboard is AGP or reg PCI?

**Detritus** · November 13th, 2005, 06:55 PM

Onboard is hooked directly into the mobo... I believe it is considered AGP.

**paul9** · November 13th, 2005, 06:56 PM

If one is PCI and one is AGP then that will work. You may have a bios setting to make your integrated video behave as PCI, but more likely you only have a setting to turn it off.