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Old 05-08-2007, 07:14 AM   #1 (permalink)
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two cards, dual screens?

Hey guys,

I recently bought a pretty decent graphics card but at the time wasnt bothered about dual screens, now I am but i dont wana buy a whole new card with dual out. Is there any way I can set it up with my graphics card and the onboard vga? (or another cheap card)

(Neither are sli as far as I know)

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Old 05-08-2007, 07:18 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: two cards, dual screens?

If your pimary video card supports dualmonitors it would not be a problem. Just go to the display properties and exntend your desktop to the second monitor.
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Re: two cards, dual screens?

You canrt run an on-board and a PCI/AGP/PCI-E at the same time aswell..
Aload of conflict issues there
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Re: two cards, dual screens?

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You canrt run an on-board and a PCI/AGP/PCI-E at the same time aswell..
Aload of conflict issues there
I have never had a problem running on board and PCi/AGP cards in XP but VIsta does not like it at all.
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