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DVI with two monitors?
Name: gort Date: June 14, 2006 at 20:19:59 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 1800+/768mb Product: homemade
Comment:
hey if you use one of those DVI adaptors with two VGA ports attached, does windows recognise those two VGA displays as seperate displays or does it clone them?
Name: Sabertooth Date: June 14, 2006 at 21:12:32 Pacific
Reply:
If I get you right, what you'll have is a clone since you are infact splitting the VGA signal more or less for simultaneous display on two monitors.
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Response Number 2
Name: gremli Date: June 14, 2006 at 21:34:06 Pacific
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If your adaptor has two ports, you can connect two monitors and drive how ever you want (to the limits of your drivers). I currently have two monitors on one adaptor with each having an individual display.
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Response Number 3
Name: gort Date: June 15, 2006 at 20:56:15 Pacific
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well, my video card has one vga port, and one dvi port, would i be able to get three displays attached without having two cloned?
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Response Number 4
Name: Mauricio4xp Date: June 16, 2006 at 07:44:03 Pacific
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aslong you have enough vga or dvi ports you will have a really wide screen or in vertical. no it will not be clones. if you have a agp or internal video card into the motherboard you cannot install a pci vid card cuz of the limits of agp. i think 4-8 is the limit of monitors. if you have 3 pci cards all with vga or dvi and one has both you would have different monitiors ! :)
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Response Number 5
Name: gort Date: June 16, 2006 at 16:28:55 Pacific
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Well i have an agp card with one vga connection and one dvi connection, can i get two SEPERATE displays on the dvi connection?
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