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sup3rcarrx8
11-24-06, 08:32 PM
I finally woke up to set up my new monitor from Black Friday (the Westinghouse 22" for $200 at BB) and decided to just make a dual display with my old monitor (Samsung 19" also from last year's Black Friday). So I got everything going okay on the Westinghouse, but I can't get the other display to get the picture on there. I have a SLI setup with two 7900gts running on WinXP Pro with sp2 if that helps. Here is also a screenshot of how my Settings page looks like (it has 3 monitors instead of 2... eh?).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v56/sup3rcarrx7/display_prob.jpg
Thanks for any help!

Patched
11-24-06, 09:00 PM
Select the monitor from the drop down box or just click on the icon for the monitor (2 or 3) and set the checkbox to "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" and hit apply. Adjust the screen resolution and color quality if needed.

sup3rcarrx8
11-25-06, 12:23 AM
I got it working. Apparently SLI can't be run with dual monitors or something. So i just disable it and then run both monitors at the same time. Sounds stupid, but it does work. =O

Mr. Roboto
11-25-06, 11:17 PM
Yeah, that is, in fact, the case. SLI + dualview = nono, for now anyways. Could allways be added as a feature in a future driver, who knows.

sup3rcarrx8
11-26-06, 03:48 AM
Hmm. Is there a special driver that has the dual monitor support? Possibly one of the omgea drivers?

Mr. Roboto
11-26-06, 12:54 PM
No, not yet. Not that I know of anyway.