Multiple Monitor Support

[shishir]

Hey tech gurus,

Does multiple monitor support in Windows 98 really work?

I tried doing that with 2 Sis 6215 PCI cards. It gave me an error that only specific cards work at this.

Do I need both cards of the same type?
Is this feature available in Windows 2000 / Windows NT 4.0 too?

Please reply ASAP.

Regards,
Shishir

 

[jakrabit]

yes it really does work... it also works in Windows 2000... it CAN work with NT 4.0 but only by jumping through a couple of flaming hoops...

some video cards do not support being the secondary video... i have used 2 duplicate video cards with success, and other duplicate video cards with no success... if i might suggest... you won't be doing much more than moving application windows, and explorer windows to the second monitor, so you won't need anything too big gun... just grab a 4 or 8 meg PCI vid card...

actually, i have a friend who wanted to perform the bizarre... he setup 5 video cards, with 5 monitors... it was quite impressive... unfortunately, there aren't too many apps that are written to utilize the multiple video...

 

[theEclipse]

jakarbit - do you know if I could set up a computer with multipe moniters (like 9, in a 3 by 3 box) and set it up to watch tv on the whole screen? I know that I would have to have a supertower, and a 11 free card slots (9 video cards, tv card, and sound card), which in itself might be hard to do.

The reason is, a friend & I want to set up a tv wall. I know that most people would set it up with TVs and a rabiter, but we both have alot of moniters, and no tvs.

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