2 monitors, 2 video cards, need help.

[Borisw37]

I have GeForce3, 128mb AGP vid card. I know its kinda old but still runs fine for most games. I want to add another monitor. Can i just install a cheap PCI card, because that monitor will not be used for graphic intense applications?
How will i select which monitor is used to display a game?

My mobo is Asus A7V8X

Thank you,

Boris.

[bchur83]

That should work just fine. I know there are a few Mobos out there that wont allow multi monitor support, but a newer board like that should.

[Borisw37]

what would you recomend as a 2nd video card?

[bchur83]

Anything cheap, since all graphics intensive stuff will be on the AGP card. I use a simple ATI PCI Rage3D 8MB ram.

[Midnight Dream]

I am not entirelly sure of bchur83's reasoning about the old mobo, but I would try not to get one that is from when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. My mobo itself is fairly old, and I have 2 vid cards, going to be going to 3 sometime soon, if I can make room for the monitor. But, just any other vid card should work. I had a 1mb vid card in at one point in time. It worked fine. Hope this helps some. Later.

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[Mystikal~Method]

Originally posted by Midnight Dream
I would try not to get one that is from when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
They didnt make motherboards when dinosuars romed the earth:p duh:rolleyes:

[MadSkillzMan]

GeForce3 doenst have any kind of dual head?

I used to do this method along time ago. It will work fine. If you have any startup issues, you might have to set the AGP card as primary in your bios.

Setting it up is easy. If windoze detects you have a second card, it will say so. The monitor will still be black. Just right click on the desktop, go to properties and click Settings. You will see a monitor, but it is shaded gray. Click on it, and down near the bottom you will see a box that says "extend my windows desktop to this monitor". Check that box, and click apply. Your 2nd monitor SHOULD come to life. Chances are the color may be set to a low resoloution. Also, if the monitors are backwards, meaning left is right and such, you dont have to physically move it. Just drag the monitor to where you want it. It will reposition it.

Hard to explain but youll see what i mean.

It may require a restart.

If this is win2k you may have some problems. 98, Me, XP are all fine.

[fl3x]

yea

[itim100]

I know the GF3's with video inputs don't have dual-head.

I am trying the same thing with a gf3-Ti200 and a Diamond S3 Trio 32/64 on a ECS k7s5a, and i think it doesn't support two adapters. I remember reading about it somewhere, but couldn't really remember. It seems that on boards that don't support two adapters the second adapter "cannot start", but IS found, and does not appear in display properties.

[jonblazt]

Glad I found this thread! I will be running dual video cards: Radeon 9000 64M and a 128 MB nVidia Ge-Force 5200. As will I will be running two 17" LCD's.

Does anyone anticipate any conflict here and what should I do to go for optimal performance.

Thanks

[mfjonny]

you know, i had dual heads(dvi, vga) on my radeon 9000 128 pro when i had the card... the 64mb version doesn't have dual heads?

*edit

I guess you have the non-pro 64mb 9000...

http://mirror.ati.com/products/radeon9000/radeon9000pro/features.html