Help Please

[Dan]

I am trying to add a second monitor to my system & use
Dualview. I have an onboard VGA adapter & an AGP card.
I want to plug one monitor into each but when I plug the
AGP card in it overtakes the onboard video & makes the
monitor on the card shut down. The AGP card works great
alone & the Onboard works great alone but they wont work
togother. Please give me some Help

DAn Bogart

 

[Phil]

Usually if you have onboard hardware, when you add a stand alone piece if
hardware to replace it, the onboard stuff gets disabled so as to not cause
conlicts. Maybe you can set it in your bios to have it on all the time, but
usually not. The preferred way to use dual monitors would be to use a pci
video card and an agp video card(not onboard) or even better buy a video
card that is specifically made to do dual monitors. ATI and Nvidia have
them.

 

[Alias]

I am trying to add a second monitor to my system & use
Dualview. I have an onboard VGA adapter & an AGP card.
I want to plug one monitor into each but when I plug the
AGP card in it overtakes the onboard video & makes the
monitor on the card shut down. The AGP card works great
alone & the Onboard works great alone but they wont work
togother. Please give me some Help

DAn Bogart

You need ONE dual monitor video card.

Alias

 

[Andrew C.]

I don't think you can use two video cards at the same
time. You need a dual video card like someone suggested.
Then use its software/driver to enable dual monitor
support, such as with ATI's video cards.

 

[Phil]

Yes you can use 2 video cards at the same time, but they both need to be
stand-alone cards(on board doesn't work). Usually since most motherboards
only have 1 agp slot, you'd hook up an agp card and a pci card.