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How to run Multiple monitors on Windows XP

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by jseabolt, 2009/02/04.

  1. 2009/02/04
    jseabolt

    jseabolt Inactive Thread Starter

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    How do you run two monitors on Windows XP?

    You do have to use a VGA card specially designed to support two monitors?

    Or can you use two AGP or PCI VGA cards as long as they are indentical?

    There is suppose to be a setting in the display properties called DualView but it's not showing up on my PC. I'm assuming it's because my on board VGA doesn't support it.
    Or I don't have the correct hardware setup.

    I tried an experiment on a spare PC which has an on-board VGA and when I tried installing a VGA card in the PCI slot it automatically disabled the one on the motherboard and recognized the one in the PCI slot. So that didn't work.
     
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    PeteC

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    That is the simplest way - almost all modern graphics cards have this facility and many are far from expensive.

    DualView is set up either in the graphics card software or through Display Properties.
    No - the line you are looking for is 'Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor' on the Secondary monitor screen (#2 monitor highlighted) - screenshot.

    Dual View is to be found in the graphics card setup if the card supports 2 monitors.

    In theory you can use 2 graphics cards if you have the slots available, but there are difficulties which are not readily soluble. Not an arrangement I have tried - my graphics cards going back several years have always had twin outputs.
     

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    wildfire

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    You may also need to check your system BIOS, sometimes when connecting a graphics card the onboard graphics are automatically disabled, normally there will be a setting to override this.

    As Pete has said you could encounter other problems but generally there is no need to use identical cards (or even resolutions).
     
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  5. 2009/02/05
    Arie

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    I've run with Dual Monitors - like forever :D (well, 12 years now)

    When I first setup dual monitors I did it by running dual PCI graphic cards. While you could run different cards, as long as you have 2 of the same, there is no problem.

    But since the introduction of graphic cards with dual monitor support build in (i.e. with 2 -or more- connectors), I've been running those.

    I always make sure I get a video card with Dual DVI output, not 1 DVI & 1 VGA.
     
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