Dual Monitors
Just a simple question. I have a Dell machine with onboard graphics, no AGP slot, 3 PCI slots. I need to add another monitor to the machine (just for office purposes so nothing that graphics intenses - just spreadsheets and the like).
Just a simple question. I have a Dell machine with onboard graphics, no AGP slot, 3 PCI slots. I need to add another monitor to the machine (just for office purposes so nothing that graphics intenses - just spreadsheets and the like). Can I add a PCI graphics card and still use the onboard graphics along side?
Normally I would just get an AGP graphics card with dual output, but with only PCI slots and onboard graphics I'm not sure if I can simply add a PCI card and use both. If so...any recommendations on a good PCI graphics card? Or can you buy dual VGA output PCI graphics cards and disable the onboard graphics?
Thanks for you help.
FREDDY
Normally I would just get an AGP graphics card with dual output, but with only PCI slots and onboard graphics I'm not sure if I can simply add a PCI card and use both. If so...any recommendations on a good PCI graphics card? Or can you buy dual VGA output PCI graphics cards and disable the onboard graphics?
Thanks for you help.
FREDDY
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yes - u can do that - as long as in the bios it is set to boot from AGP (even though it is built in vid) AGP first.
as for a good PCi card not really any out - there is some radeon 7000 or 7500 i think u can get in PCI flavour and a couple low end Nvidia cards - personally i would go with the ati as the earlier cards tend to have better image quality over nvidia,
as for a good PCi card not really any out - there is some radeon 7000 or 7500 i think u can get in PCI flavour and a couple low end Nvidia cards - personally i would go with the ati as the earlier cards tend to have better image quality over nvidia,
^^^ great did not know that!
anyways - as for a pciandAGp card not working - it is always bets to gethe same make of card - as in bioth the same company - do not get one ATia nd one nvidia or matrox - as tihs often cause driver conflicts - so if u ever go one agp and one pcio get the same company of card and if possible - same model
anyways - as for a pciandAGp card not working - it is always bets to gethe same make of card - as in bioth the same company - do not get one ATia nd one nvidia or matrox - as tihs often cause driver conflicts - so if u ever go one agp and one pcio get the same company of card and if possible - same model
That's not necessarily true in all cases. I had an [original - before they started puting 4 digit numbers in their names] ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO [AGP] & 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI running ok together for quite a while with no probs. Ok, so there was 1 prob which I thought was a conflict, but now that I have a single-card dual-monitor solution by ATI [well, made by Saphire, but you know what I mean] I know that it's a bug in the ATI drivers, not an issue with other cards.
In case anyone's interested, the prob in question is that when you enable extended desktop the Schemes function disappears.
In case anyone's interested, the prob in question is that when you enable extended desktop the Schemes function disappears.
