Hi. I have upgraded my notebook (Fujitsu-Siemens X7550) to W2K. Tpe notebook has Ati Rage Mobility display adapter. I used a second monitor with W98 SE, the was no problem in dual monitor mode. But after the upgrade,with Win 2000, i can not see the second monitor in 'Display Properties'. And the second monitor displays the same content with my notebook display. Can anyone help... Best regards Bahri Ertunc

I have exactly the same problem with an Asus Travelmate 600TER. With the Asus supplied Mobility drivers, the second display only displays the same content as the Notebook panel after upgrading to W2K. IBM's website (they use the ATI card in some of their notebooks) suggested that its a known problem with W2K and that microsoft is working towards a solution. There is no mention on either ATIs or Asus' websites (thanks for that). In the end I gave up and restored my W98 installation (where the dual display works flawlessly). I will revert is I find anything else out. Regards EF

For those who are struggling with dual display with Windows 2000, after hours of research, I have determined that no laptops currently support this feature as shipped. Although the ATI Rage Mobility card is capable of an extended desktop with Windows 98 and Windows Me, only one chip manufacturer has enabled the dual display feature under Windows 2000 with a single dual-controller video card, and I can't find anyone who has it on board in a laptop. In addition, based on info received from Dell tech support, it seems unlikely that anyone will develop code to supplement Windows 2000 to support the dual-display, extended-desktop feature in the forseeable future. Speculation is that a service release to Windows 2000 or the replacement (Windows Whistler) will support this feature with the existing ATI video card...but who knows??? If you desire to have dual display on Windows 2000 Dell notebook with an extended desktop (different displays on the various monitors instead of mirror images), laptop mfr's will not support this. I have found only one option in all of my research, and that is to use a PCMCIA video card. There are two on the market, one from Appian and one from Margi systems. For a review of these cards by a Dell notebook user, go to http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/faq.asp. Hopefully, this info will save others the grief that I had to go through to ultimately get to this answer.