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PostPosted: Wed 06-09-2004 3:28PM 
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alright so i recently bought a new monitor and was wondering how i would go about hooking them both up to my comp. right now i have a geforce 2 in the agp slot and a friend gave me an old pci voodoo card: http://www.geek.com/gaming/gamerevs/video/hvi3dvoo.htm

do i simply plug this card into the PCI slot and hook up my monitor to it? anyone have experience with this and can help me?


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PostPosted: Wed 06-09-2004 4:16PM 
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there's only one way to find out....


i have a dualview geforce card... so if i ever happen to get my hands on a second monitor, my card has 2 VGA outputs on it, and it's all set up in windows...

if you have having trouble i would look for the nview drivers on nvidia's website


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alright so i recently bought a new monitor and was wondering how i would go about hooking them both up to my comp. right now i have a geforce 2 in the agp slot and a friend gave me an old pci voodoo card: http://www.geek.com/gaming/gamerevs/video/hvi3dvoo.htm

do i simply plug this card into the PCI slot and hook up my monitor to it? anyone have experience with this and can help me?


Yes. Install both cards, hook both monitors up. Look under display properties to set them up.


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3D acceleration is going to be patchy with that configuration, along with overlay support. Full-screen 3D should be fine on your primary card (probably your GeForce), but don't expect to be able to drag windowed Direct3D or OpenGL applications between monitors without a whole lot of slowdown.

Other than that, enjoy your increased desktop space.


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try ultramon. it's what i used and it's pretty neat. well, i also was able to hook up both monitors from my single vid card. i just had to buy a dvi to vga adapter.


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so the old voodoo card doesn't have drivers that work for Win2K. Strange thing happened though. When I had both monitors hooked up. The post and bios stratup showed up from the voodoo card but once windows loaded, the agp card kicked in. Anyway, imma try to use an old PCI card from home. Thanks for the help.


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mop, if you have an AGP primary and a PCI secondary, that's what's supposed to happen. I used to have an old ATI 3D Rage II PCI in here along with my GeForce 4. POST and windows startup shows on secondary, then moves to the primary.

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i would like to add to the question. i have dual monitors already with my fx, if i got a pci with dual vga would i be able to run 4 monitors?

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Yes, but they may not function in the same way as your used to. Last time I checked only Nvidia and Matrox supported somthing called Horizontial spanning. This treats both monitors as one very wide monitor so some games can be expanded across both.

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Not the same way I’m used to?! Ok well any how, I have an fx which = nVidia and I wont be getting the ati anyway because their drivers tend to conflict with almost any nVidia and the spanning is a well known issue with their cards. Let’s assume I get this: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 052&depa=1

Question 1, will I be able to run 4 separate desktop displays (one main and 3 for other stuff)?

Question 2, will I be able to span all 4 displays, or just 2 sets of 2, or what ever?

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Question 3, if i had 2 pci + 1 agp what would happen?

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the two PCI cards would conflict and machine wouldn't boot.

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bullshit


now now children, lets keep this at a mature level shall we?

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bullshit


now now children, lets keep this at a mature level shall we?


DON"T FEED THE TROLLSS!!!!! lol

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