Dual Monitors w/ Onboard

[skyxliner]

I have an onboard monitor adapter and also a geforce mx440 adapter

I was wondering if it was possible to enable both so that I can use dual monitors together?

and quality wise, I should use the geforce output as my main screen right? like for games and stuff =P


hope someone can help me out, thanks ahead of time

[Midknyte]

it depends on your bios. some onboard cards are automatically disabled when an agp card is installed. you'll just have to try.

you'll probably want the mx440 as the primary.

[sm8000]

As far as I know, SiS chipsets can do this, but I'm not aware of any others (though I haven't been looking lately).

[skyxliner]

sis chipset? really? cause i think my asus mobo uses sis...

awesome i'll definetly give it a shot cause i nearly almost bought a pci video card

[skyxliner]

my onboard video doesn't seem to have an output for video...

but it does have TWO of these but are both MALE
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7697/261524qn.jpg

is there anyway to convert the standard monitor plug into this... I'd need

[skyxliner]

errr ok scrap everything here..

my question, can i have one agp card and one pci card and dual monitor for both?

[Midknyte]

you could run an agp and pci video and get 4 monitors if you wanted.

please search the forum for related threads also:
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=184631

[sm8000]

Exactly what motherboard do you have?

EDIT: Those two Male 9-pin ports are your serial ports, not video at all. You don't have any onboard video so you are going to have to go with cards.

[skyxliner]

ok thanks i'm going to try the agp and pci for dual monitors because I don't want to buy a better videocard with two outlets (too expensive).

Sorry, I have read through that thread but it doesn't exactly concern my topic, I want my screens to connect, not a replication of the same screen.

I have an AsusTek, p4b33 and your right sm8000 i went through the manual and sadly it didn't come with any onboard video at all. I don't get why I would use two serial ports but thats not important.

New Question: My geforce card comes with nview which allows dual monitors. If I install a pci video card, will the geforce be able to pick it up and utilize the two monitors. Or would I have to look into a third party software to connect the two desktops.

[Midknyte]

windows xp natively support multiple monitors, so you don't really need to use nview. you can also look at an app called ultramon.

http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

and yes that thread mentioned multiple monitors to expand a desktop.

[sm8000]

What's your budget? A dualhead video card is very affordable these days. On pricewatch.com I see Radeon 9550s (AGP) for $60.