dual monitors, both look differnet

[lenny109]

Hi,
I have two monitors (neovo f-417, But the make isn't relevant as the problem is the same with what ever monitor I use. They are connected to a Radeon VE video card. They display differntly and always have done. For example If I open the 'my music' folder (windows XP Pro. SP2) At the bottom of the page is a note icon watermark. If I move the page over to the other monitor the icon can not be seen. This happens with lots of lighter images that are on white backgrounds and is causing me lots of problems when working on pictures or webpages.

I have tried all the available drivers for the card but the same problem. I have tried with a number of different monitors.

Is it the card that is causing this or could it be the motherboard? Also as the card was originally in a 98 machine to give me the 2 monitors and I now have XP would it be better to just add 2 normal PCI graphics cards and run the dual monitor system from them. Would this solve my problem?
Thanks in advance,
Lenny

 

[ski]

If the new system is an entirely different unit, and the problem followed the video card from the old system to the new one, then the MB is probably not the cause.
And if different drivers and monitors did not solve the problem, and the card's software is properly configured, then the card may be defective.

 

[lenny109]

That is what i thought. So does anybody have any recomendations for a dual screen set up? What would be a good graphics card (reasonably priced as I don't need to play games on it)to use or should I use 2 cheap PCI cards?

 

[franklin97355]

Several of the Matrox cards are dual head.