Re: Dual monitor video card, which one?

It took me awhile to figure out, but the Radeon Express 200 is a
motherboard not a graphics card.

I am assuming in this reply that your motherboard looks like this:

http://tinyurl.com/rgmxz

And only has a single video out and this video out is a VGA, meaning
there is no DVI out on the board.

In this case, you MUST purchase an extra video card to enable you to
have multi monitor support.

You can add any video card to a Windows XP box to get multi monitor
support. But to use the unique features of Surroundview, you need to
add a 9X00 video card. The X300 and up.

Where some of the previous responders have made what must have seemed
to you to have been puzzling responses I am assuming they assumed the
Radeon x200 was a videocard. All newer video cards have two outs. (See
here
http://www.vtr-hardware.com/media/im...ews/1/2864.jpg) One is
usually VGA and the other is DVI (although sometimes they have both
DVI). If you had a stand alone video card, you could just plug your
second monitor into the unused output. Right click the desktop, go to
settings and enable desktop extension. And you are in business. Since
you only have one video out, doing this is impossible and nonsensical.

Since you don't have a stand alone video card, you need to add one. Go
to your local computer store and pick any one of the X00 series, come
home, plug it into an open slot, plug in your monitor and you are in
business.

Here is a small tutorial on how to do this not with SurroundView:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000217.html

Take a look at ultramon.com for a good utility.

Take a look here for a few examples of what adding a few extra video
cards can enable you to do. Remember each video card supports 2
monitors. Some actually support 4.

http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=930
http://tinyurl.com/o9mln
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hiperwall/
http://digitaltigers.com/zenview.shtml

Good Luck!
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Bazzer Smith wrote:
> I am thinking of getting one of these as an alternative to a big monitor.
>
> However I am not familliar with video card jargon and I am baffled by
> them, it's like decyphering the enigma code reading about them.
>
> Anyway my current 'card' is a ATI Radeon Xpress 200G, what card
> would be suitable for me to run two monitors.
>
> I could go to Radeons sit and try to figure it out from there but
> I will probably die of old age before I understand all the goobledegook.
>
> For example here is mycard:-
>
> http://www.ati.com/products/radeonxpress200/specs.html
>
> I understand the first two lines of the spec the rest is b***ocks.
>
>
> How do I go from there to finding a duel version of the card?
> Is there a university course I could attend?
>
> I expect when I find out nobody wil sell it anyway.

"GrimJack808" <grimjack808@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1156058588.341952.143320@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
> It took me awhile to figure out, but the Radeon Express 200 is a
> motherboard not a graphics card.


Well no it is not a motherboard, rather is an 'onboard grasphics'
there are many different motherboards using radeon xpress 200
chipset

>
> I am assuming in this reply that your motherboard looks like this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/rgmxz
>
> And only has a single video out and this video out is a VGA, meaning
> there is no DVI out on the board.
>
> In this case, you MUST purchase an extra video card to enable you to
> have multi monitor support.

I realised this, you are sure I can use a single headed card, ie a card with
just
one place to connect a monitor (and use the motherboards connector
for the other monitor?)

>
> You can add any video card to a Windows XP box to get multi monitor
> support. But to use the unique features of Surroundview, you need to
> add a 9X00 video card. The X300 and up.

That makes sense, 9X00 = X300 clear as a bell.

>
> Where some of the previous responders have made what must have seemed
> to you to have been puzzling responses I am assuming they assumed the
> Radeon x200 was a videocard. All newer video cards have two outs. (See
> here

How will I know if it is 'newer' will it say 'newer' on the box.
Or do you just mean any card which is newer than an older card.
This means all but the frist ever video card.


> http://www.vtr-hardware.com/media/im...ews/1/2864.jpg) One is
> usually VGA and the other is DVI (although sometimes they have both
> DVI).

Does that mean it will support two monitors or just that you can use either
connector, but not at the same time?

> If you had a stand alone video card, you could just plug your
> second monitor into the unused output. Right click the desktop, go to
> settings and enable desktop extension. And you are in business. Since
> you only have one video out, doing this is impossible and nonsensical.
>
> Since you don't have a stand alone video card, you need to add one. Go
> to your local computer store and pick any one of the X00 series, come
> home, plug it into an open slot, plug in your monitor and you are in
> business.
>
> Here is a small tutorial on how to do this not with SurroundView:
>
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000217.html
>
> Take a look at ultramon.com for a good utility.
>
> Take a look here for a few examples of what adding a few extra video
> cards can enable you to do. Remember each video card supports 2
> monitors. Some actually support 4.
>
> http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=930
> http://tinyurl.com/o9mln
> http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/hiperwall/
> http://digitaltigers.com/zenview.shtml
>
> Good Luck!

Thanks, it's just a question of me finding the right card at the right price
available locally, unfortunately I have no AGP slot which excludes a lot of
options. I have PCI and PCI-Express.
I think I have located the card I want,I just hope the shop has one in
stock.


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>
>
> Bazzer Smith wrote:
>> I am thinking of getting one of these as an alternative to a big monitor.
>>
>> However I am not familliar with video card jargon and I am baffled by
>> them, it's like decyphering the enigma code reading about them.
>>
>> Anyway my current 'card' is a ATI Radeon Xpress 200G, what card
>> would be suitable for me to run two monitors.
>>
>> I could go to Radeons sit and try to figure it out from there but
>> I will probably die of old age before I understand all the goobledegook.
>>
>> For example here is mycard:-
>>
>> http://www.ati.com/products/radeonxpress200/specs.html
>>
>> I understand the first two lines of the spec the rest is b***ocks.
>>
>>
>> How do I go from there to finding a duel version of the card?
>> Is there a university course I could attend?
>>
>> I expect when I find out nobody wil sell it anyway.
>