Dual Monitors With NO Spanning?

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I am trying to setup dual monitors with no spanning (same image on both
monitors) using two video cards and no external "splitters." Is this
possible?

-Allen
 
Allen said:
I am trying to setup dual monitors with no spanning (same image on
both monitors) using two video cards and no external "splitters."
Is this possible?
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yes
 
Allen said:
I am trying to setup dual monitors with no spanning (same image on both
monitors) using two video cards and no external "splitters." Is this
possible?

-Allen
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Yes, this is in fact the default configuration. You'll generally have one
AGP and one PCI card. Note that you may have to play a bit with the BIOS
settings for primary video adapter, as it won't necessarily be the one
Windows wants to be primary.

HTH
-pk
 
Test User said:
Yes, this is in fact the default configuration. You'll generally have
one
AGP and one PCI card. Note that you may have to play a bit with the BIOS
settings for primary video adapter, as it won't necessarily be the one
Windows wants to be primary.

HTH
-pk
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The default and as far as I've ever found the only option is the "extend the
desktop" across the displays, e.g. NOT clone the first onto the second.
Windows "natively" only supports this extended desktop. Most multi-head
video cards (Matrox, nVidia and ATI) give an option within THEIR drivers to
have "clone/mirror/etc." modes, e.g. the 2nd display shows the same desktop
as the primary display. This is NOT available when using two separate video
cards. One must instead use a 3rd party tool such as MultiMon to achieve
this.
 
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