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Answer» Why is it we get all the idiot posters APPEARING at this time of year?you say that like it's some simple configuration change. I doubt any video driver has a "use as red channel for use with merging video circuitry for one monitor". Why is it we get all the idiot posters appearing at this time of year? While I wonder the very same... oh wait- what was my exception?Is it because of the school holidays? Code: [Select]you say that like it's some simple configuration change.The Topic Started said he wanted to "MORPH" the two computers. This step would require some local surgery on the VGA cables. Less that a hour of work. Hard part is put the two video cards in sync. Maybe somebody KNOWS how to do thatQuote from: patio on December 25, 2008, 11:37:30 AM Well then if that's the situation short of getting another monitor then you NEED a KVM switch as Soybean stated...Actually, I believe both computers can be running when the switch is used to switch from one computer to the other. I've seen KVM in action for using a keyboard with two computers and switching from one to the other was a simply matter of hitting a certain key or combination of keys on the keyboard. I would think the same applies to mouse and monitor. Here's a good article on KVM switches: http://www.connect-tek.com/kvm-reference-guide.htmlOH. Yeah that works. I do that all the time. But I thought it was using both computers in the same instance of time. I gues if you have someone to help you, you could switch back and forth and have the ilusion of seeing both computers on one monitor. Wait, forget that. It would wear out the switch. The KVM is is only good for 100,000 times. I meant he can only use one machine at a time..... Also Pluto IS a planet no matter what the experts say.Gotcha. I mis-interpreted what you meant. Quote from: Geek-9pm on December 25, 2008, 05:22:31 PM Code: [Select]you say that like it's some simple configuration change.The Topic Started said he wanted to "Morph" the two computers. This step would require some local surgery on the VGA cables. Please tell me your joking. It isn't a simple cable graft- you will need to change the circuitry of the video boards to output only one colour (red or blue) AND shift the image to the left or right. This will make the card essentially USELESS for anything but the purposes of this 3d-glasses experiment, whereas I'm sure after the novelty has worn off in about 10 minutes that the boards are scrapped. Even if the intent was to simply get the outputs mixed onto one monitor, the result wouldn't be achieved by some "local surgery on the VGA cables". a circuit is just that, a circuit. what your devising is not a circuit by any definition- basically, you have one circuit that is splitting into two, and the return signal from those loops is going to try to return along the same lines. While this can be called a parallel circuit, crosstalk and interference will become a problem, and the image (assuming it works at all, considering the monitor will be receiving twice as many requests for DDC information as normal- goodness knows what that will do. the term "simple" doesn't come up very often when discussing hardware modifications, simply because it isn't. to say otherwise, it had better be in jest, otherwise it simply expresses ignorance/lack of experience with what your discussing. What your saying is like saying that adding SATA support to the original IBM PC is just a bit of cable work with the ESDI ribbon cables. The fact that the original IBM-PC can barely be made to support IDE in any incarnation notwithstanding.Quote Please tell me your joking. Yes.you should have said so earlier! |
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