Ok so I play EQ (Online Game) and I want to run more than one instance. I don't really want to buy a 2nd PC, but I have an extra monitor. So I want to set up both Monitors on my one PC and have no idea how to or where to start. I am running: Compaq AMD Sempron 3000+ with 1.5 GB of RAM Video Card: Nivida GeForce4 MX 4000 So do I need to install a 2nd Video Card? or replace the one I have with something else? Ot is there a program that I can install, software I can download? Any help would be appreciated, my Boyfriend told me I couldn't do it, and even if i could there would be no point because the 2nd monitor would just show what was on the first one and i want to prove him wrong!! I do not know alot about computers, I am learning little by little, and I have no clue when it comes to tech terms

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,1... BTW be careful with BFs - a lot of 'em tends to feel threatened by the GF's supremacy with PCs. i_XpUser

Two monitors on one PC requires a graphic card that provides two outputs. Most laptops offer this currently; desktops generally not - although some may, as a means of encouragaing a buyer, install/include a suitable card pre sale... With the laptop system, once correctly enabled, you have the option to have both laptop and external screens available, only the external, and obviously only the laptop's. When both are available the second becomes effectively an extension of the laptop's display; and you have a larger screen/desktop area overall. Thus you can have two "screens" running, one with one game displayed and the other with something else (another game...?). The two displays are merely showing different parts of a common desktop; and you can drag "stuff" from one screen to the other. A twin vga output add-in card for a desktop essentially allows the same arrangments. Maxtor made one of the original twin vga cards some years back; it was pain to get working... But these days I think most of them are pretty good and straightforward to set up. We use this arrangement frequently now in the broadcast/film industry; especially in editing stations. Wouldn't hurt to browse around your local stores to see what's there. These days there aren't too many local "Mom 'n Pop" stores around - but if there is one and the folks there know their stuff.. they would be the place to go (at least for experienced advice/help); the larger chains often don't know all they might... A trawl/browse via google using: twin vga graphic cards reviews as the search term will bring you a range of hits. Many are simply lists of vendors etc... but one or two of your hits will be to specific vendors/reviewers etc. One *specific" to visit might well be newegg.com as they seem to enjoy a decent reputation currently - and decent prices too? Be aware... and sadly many are not... When you install the card... be sure to either remove the power-cord from the PC; or if the a/c outlet has its own switch ensure it is switched off. Critically you do NOT want any mains going into the system at all. Switching a PC off at the front (or via the OS itself) does not kill the volts inside the box... Thus you might well be moving components - not the least a card - around a live motherboard, and this "may" result in problems you don't want to entertain...; you "could" blow the psu, the component you're installing/moving around, or even the motherboard. Much wiser/safer to verify there is no a/c mains going in before opening the case and installing the card. Unlike old AT boxes (where that power-switch on the box did remove/switch off the a/c that power-switch on the front/side of a current ATX box merely removes volts from a few parts of the system; the motherboard etc. is still live (receiving it assorted low voltages levels as always). Hot swapping cards is not a recommended routine; which is not say many have done so (in ignorance - moi aussi...) and the PC survived the trauma... The credit goes to a unknown Dell support techie. for the advice (in my case) an aeon ago... I can echo XpUsers caveat re' BF and GF levels of literacy re' computers... Yet (and there's no solid reason for it be unusual - just a matter of the attitude of the beholder) some of the best/most competent/skilled folks in the PC business are female..., both in hardware and software areas; and it can really "P... off" some guys...