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Hi,

I have a couple of questions for you guys and i WOULD appreciate if you can ANSWER me. Is it possible to have two monitors, one on-board and the other one on a pci video card. Is it possible to have two monitors, one on-board and the other one on a pci-e video card. Is it possible to have two monitors, one on-board and the other one on a agp video card.

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You need a vid card with dual monitor support...
It's one or the other.Quote from: kdxman on January 20, 2011, 02:16:02 PM

Hi,

I have a couple of questions for you guys and i would appreciate if you can answer me. Is it possible to have two monitors, one on-board and the other one on a pci video card. Is it possible to have two monitors, one on-board and the other one on a pci-e video card. Is it possible to have two monitors, one on-board and the other one on a agp video card.

Thanks

It's possible to have two PCI cards, a AGP and a PCI, and sometimes a Built-in and a PCI/AGP card.

The problem is that usually installing a secondary card disables the on-board automatically. If it allows you keep both on, you can in FACT use two monitors.

I'm not sure how well it works today, though; I just know I had a dual-display setup with Win98 and a AGP ATI Rage pro Turbo and a PCI Cirrus LOGIC card (of some sort).Ok, will try.

thank you for AGP, you can almost never have the on-board video and a AGP card working at once; this is because on a system with on-board video and an AGP slot the on-board video is almost always integrated so it is an AGP "card"; AGP does not make any allowances for multiple devices, so only one can be active at the same time.

I really truly have no clue about PCI-Express, but later computers now (as I noted) automatically disable the on-board video when you add an external card.

on-board AGP+PCI or separate AGP & PCI cards, as well as two PCI cards does allow you to have dual display support with most systems.Quote from: kdxman on January 21, 2011, 06:22:27 AM
Ok, will try.

thank you
If you tell us the specs for your motherboard (does it have AGP, PCI Express, or what?), we can probably be more specific about your situation.


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