Multiple Monitor Woes

[David Reed]

Hello,

I'm trying to enable the Multiple Monitor support on my Win2k SP4 computer.

I am using the on-board video adapter, and also a:

STB Systems, Inc. S3 ViRGE/GX PCI adapter.

The computer detects the card okay, and I know that this PCI card worked
fine when I took it out of the other computer this morning (actually a
Windows 2003 Server Evaluation system). It worked fine as the standalone
card in that system.

I've never tried to use multiple monitor support. The System reports that
it is unable to start the device and suggests running troubleshooter.

Since I've never used mutliple monitor support before, I thought I might be
missing something obvious.

Ideas anyone?

Thanks,

David

 

[Andy]

The card probably cannot function as a secondary video adapter under
Windows 2000/XP. Try setting it as the primary adapter in the BIOS
setup.

 

[David Bolt]

David,
Not necessarily the case, but when I set up a second monitor on my machine,
I had to get two compatible graphic cards that both supported dual monitors.
Dave

 

[DL]

Personally I used a single card that supports dual monitors and used the
associated card software/drivers, and disabled the onboard graphics.
David

 

[Greg]

David,

Where did you look to find out what graphis cards were
compatible for dual monitors? I want to set up a PC with
dual monitors and want to do it right.

Thanks

Greg

 

[Andy]

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/

David,

Where did you look to find out what graphis cards were
compatible for dual monitors? I want to set up a PC with
dual monitors and want to do it right.

Thanks

Greg

 

[DL]

Nvidea, ATI, Matrox all produce dual monitor cards, I've used ATI and Nvidea
prefer the later implimentation of the dual setup
David