Dual video display adapter setup

[Bill]

The customer wishes to split his desktop between two
monitors using dual video display adapters on a new P4
system running Windows XP Home. His primary video display
adapter is an ATI Xpert2000 Pro AGP.

What are the requirements for the secondary PCI video
display adapter? Is it necessary that the secondary card
have the same chipset as the primary adapter?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The second display adapter card should be of the same chipset, for the
simple reason is that you do not have to add a second video card driver.
When adding video card drivers, there could be a conflict between the two
drivers. One driver eliminates this potential problem.

It may be worth it to replace the Xpert2000 with a newer video card. Most
newer video cards usually come with 2 monitor connectors (I VGA and 1
DVI -- with a DVI to VGA adapter) and you do not have to have a separate PCI
video card (which are starting to be extremely rare to find).

Y.

 

[DL]

Personally I use a Nvidea card with dual view, the software has various
options for using dual displays
David

 

[KenKnightJack]

I have a dual output radeon 9000 card. So instead of buying one new pci card
buy a radeon that has 2 outputs that will be faster for the 2 monitors. One
is vga and the other one is dvi (digital and analog) but with a special
cheap aadaptor (sometimes included with the card) you can connect a crt
monitor. I have 2 crts working with this configuration. It was better than
having 2 different cards, and the reason is that
1)there is a posibility for conflict.
2) they will have a difference in performance
I think you can find a radeon like the one I have for about 80 $
look around