2 monitors?

yawn,, more OLD news. . . dated oct 2001 :rollseyes:.

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hello.
i have a ATi Radeon 7500 in my win XP Pro computer.
I want to use two monitors, so, i can expand the work area.
But....how do this?.
i know i need 2 Video cards [i have it] and obiusli, 2 monitos.
but how i make them work?

winXP
radeon7500
256mram
p4 1.6

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if your going to use two video cards you'll have to have one card AGP and the other PCI.

Then it's just a matter of setting them up in windows. I youst to do this on win ME with an old P3.

OR

Get a new card that has dual display connections, such as either a Matrox card or a card with VGA and DVI connections and then buy a seperate DVI to VGA converter.

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I have never try this but i believe it is like this.

You need to have a special vedia card for example Geforce MX series or Matrox card.

The other way (as you mentioned) is to get a PCI Video card and swap it in along with your radeon 7500 (AGP) then plug the monitor on each card and power up your PC, but i don't think this will work cause you cannot use both primary and secondary display card to work at the same time.

Does Ati Radeon support dual view as MX series does?

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Yes, radeon supports dualview.

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mmm...so?.... i can use both video cards?..
mi radeon 7500 have 2 output... a tipical video conector and another... i 'think it's for other kind of monitors..
so, i buy a adapter from "that conector" to the tipical conector?
u guys tell me this will work for sure?

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the other one is a DVI connectior - get a DVI-VGA adaptor and you are good to go. you dont need 2 display adaptors. OR connect a TFT screen to the dvi connector.
theres usually a dvi-vga adaptor included with all radeons.

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If your radeon 7500 have DVI, then it will works.

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if your going to use two video cards you'll have to have one card AGP and the other PCI.

Then it's just a matter of setting them up in windows. I youst to do this on win ME with an old P3.

OR

Get a new card that has dual display connections, such as either a Matrox card or a card with VGA and DVI connections and then buy a seperate DVI to VGA converter.

not true depends if your radeon has 2 outputs either one dvi and vga or jus vga+vga, its called hydravision or somthing on the radeons, and theres a utilty for it built into the drivers i think, but since the only radeon i've used is a 8500, and it left me with sutch a bad impression i'd never purchase, an ati card again, of course thier tv tuner card i bought was even worse... the tuner got a return, the 8500 is sitting in an unhappy celeron 700.