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how many monitors?
I'm about to swap out my 8200 with a new 8400. The old box has Radeon 7000 card with 2 flatscreens plugged into it, 19" and 15". I had been thinking that I'd put that card in the new machine and use it with the 19" plus the 17" that came with the new box. But it just occurred to me -- maybe I should use all three!? It know I read somewhere that XP can manage a whole bunch of monitors. The new box has a ATI Radeon™ X300 SE
installed. If I put the other video card in there, will windows be able to sort that out and use all three monitors?
installed. If I put the other video card in there, will windows be able to sort that out and use all three monitors?
I have a Dell 2005FPW connected via DVI-D and a Samsung 173T connected via VGA (analog). The Dell is set up as the primary monitor with extension of the desktop onto the Samsung. All of the processes are very easy to perform.
Of course, there are issues that I had to deal with. They are:
The Samsung, which gives extremely beautiful pictures with DVI, is a bit darker and not so clear now that it gets analog signal. However, this is quite fine for me since I only use it when I have several web pages or instances of windows explorer opened, and most commonly when I use photoshop (to keep the palettes and tools from getting in the way of photographs).
Given the way my computer is set up, I had to get a VGA extension cable.
The new ATI driver (Catalyst -I think- downloadable from ATI.com) is a bit buggy. Definitely, the Dell support driver update is much better with no stability issue.
I have this strange message "DVI-D This mode can not be displayed" on the Dell monitor (DVI connection) when windows boots up. It hangs around for a few seconds then everything loads just fine. There seems to be no problem at all with the picture or conflicts. It is just irritating.Good luck to you.abarickman
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Posted December 19th, 2004 16:00
good ?...... I've got 23inLCD on DVI and 19inCRT on VGA, bothed hooked to 9800Pro at 1280/768 resolution.- Yes I had 2 monitors on my 8200, in order to do just what you said earlier, keep the tools from Dreameaver and Photoshop out of the way of the editing screen. When I got the new machine, I thought seriously about putting 3 monitors on it, with the third for previewing web pages, but my wife was shooting such nasty looks at me that I decided to hold off on that, at least for a while.
giadinh
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Posted December 17th, 2004 04:00