With multiple-monitors you can use one computer to control two to nine monitors through a common desktop. Multiple-monitors will increase the size of your screen, so you can see multiple applications or windows simultaneously.
This page will give you the basic's for setting up multiple
monitors. Later on I will supply a link to a very comprehensive
site dealing with this topic. On with the show!
Required Hardware for Multiple-Monitors
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Any combination of the following supported PCI-based cards can be used with multiple-monitors. Only cards based on the following chipsets work as secondary cards. |
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You also need to use the specified driver. The following drivers are supported by Microsoft and
are included on the Windows 98 CD: |
Card Driver
| ATI Mach 64 GX (GX, GXD, VT) ATIM64.drv |
| ATI Graphics Pro Turbo PCI |
| ATI Graphics Xpression |
| ATI WinTurbo |
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| ATI Rage I, II, & II+ ATI_M64.drv |
| ATI All-In-Wonder |
| ATI 3D Xpression+ PC2TV |
| ATI 3D Xpression |
| ATI 3D Xpression+ |
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| ATI Rage Pro (AGP & PCI) ATIR3.drv |
| ATI Xpert@Work, 4 & 8 MB |
| ATI Xpert@Play, 4 & 8 MB |
| ATI All-In-Wonder Pro |
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| S3 765 (Trio64V+) S3MM.drv Only certain updates work. These are 40, 42, 43, 44, 52, 53, & 54. |
| Note: |
If the card is at one of these updates, then Windows 98 will
recognize the card as a Trio 64V+, provided the Microsoft driver is used. If the card is not at one of these updates, then it is recognized as a Trio
32/64. Some OEM drivers don’t care which update is present; be sure to note carefully which Microsoft driver Windows 98 selects when
you use this card. |
| S3
Trio64V2(DX/GX) S3MM.drv |
| Diamond
Stealth 64 Video 2001 |
| STB PowerGraph 64V+ |
| STB MVP 64 |
| Miro TwinHead 22SD |
| Hercules Terminator 64/Video |
| Number Nine 9FX Reality 332 (S3 Virge) |
| Number
Nine 9FX Reality 334 (S3 Virge GX/2) |
| Number
Nine 9FX Reality 772(S3 Virge VX) |
| California
Graphics V2/DX |
| Videologic
GraphicsStar 410 |
| Cirrus
5436 CIRRUSMM.drv |
| Cirrus
Alpine |
| Cirrus
5446 CIRRUSMM.drv |
| STB
Nitro 64V |
| S3
ViRGE S3V.drv |
| ViRGE
(325) |
| ViRGE
VX (988) |
| ViRGE
DX (385) |
| ViRGE
GX (385) |
| Diamond
Stealth 3D 2000 |
| Diamond
Stealth 3D 3000 |
| Diamond
Stealth 3D 2000 Pro |
| Number
Nine 9FX Reality 332 |
| STB
Powergraph 3D |
| STB
Nitro 3D |
| STB
Velocity 3D |
| STB
MVP/64 |
| STB
MVP/64 3D |
| STB
WorkStation (2 & 4 output) |
| Miro
Crystal VR4000 |
| ET6000
ET6000.drv |
| Hercules
Dynamite 128/Video |
| STB
Lightspeed 128 |
| S3
Aurora S3MM.drv |
| Compaq
Armada |
| Trident
9685/9680/9682 TRID_PCI.DRV /9385/9382/9385 |
| Jaton Video
- 57P |
The
following driver is located in the
C:\Windows\System32\drivers directory:
| InterGraphics
Systems (IGS) IGA2K.DRV |
| CyberPro
2000A, 2MB |
The
following drivers are available directly from the
vendor and work in multiple-monitor systems
These
drivers are not supported by Microsoft:
| Permedia
2 GLINT.DRV |
| TI
TVP4020, 8 meg PCI (Reference board) |
| TI
TVP4020 8 meg AGP (Reference board) |
| Diamond
Fire GL Pro 1000 PCI |
| Diamond
Fire GL Pro 1000 AGP |
| STB
(Symmetric) Glyder MAX-2 PCI |
To download
the driver used with these cards, visit the Web site
at 3dlabs
In
addition, newer cards and drivers that were not
available when Windows 98 was developed may also
support multiple-monitors. Consult the vendor
documentation or contact the vendor to determine
whether your card and drivers support
multiple-monitors.
Setting
Up Multiple-Monitors:
| 1. |
Determine which card you
want to use as your primary card. First make sure
that the card works with multiple-monitors. |
| 2. |
Insert the card into your
motherboard, and then add your second card. The
system BIOS will decide which card is the primary
card. One way to verify which card is your
primary card is to check which card displays the
Windows 98 Startup logo when you turn on the
computer. The card that displays the Startup logo
is the primary card, and the card that appears to
be inactive is the secondary card. If this is not
what you want, reverse the order of the cards in
the PCI slots. |
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Repeat this procedure for
each additional card. Unfortunately, with current
system BIOSs, there is no way to determine which
adapter will be the second, third, or fourth card
until the card is actually used. |
| 4. |
Start Windows 98. Windows
automatically detects the new cards. When you are
prompted, restart your computer. |
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During Startup, Windows
initializes the new secondary adapter and
displays a message indicating the card is
correctly initialized. |
| 6. |
If the primary card
displays in 640x480 and 16 colours, right click
the desktop, click Settings, click the Colours
down arrow, and then select the 256 Colours
setting or a higher setting. Click OK, and then
restart your computer. |
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After you log on,
right click desktop, click Properties, and then
click Settings. In the Display area, Windows
lists each video adapter in your system. Find the
adapter you want to use, and click on it. |
| 8. |
Click the Extend my
window desktop onto this monitor check box, and
then click Apply. |
Troubleshooting Multiple-Monitor
Setup:
Extend
my Windows desktop onto this monitor option is
unavailable:
| 1. |
Make sure that the
monitor is set to display in 256 colours or
higher. |
| 2. |
Verify that your
secondary card is compatible with
multiple-monitors. |
| 3. |
Make sure you are not
using a Windows 3.1 driver for the primary card. |
| 4. |
Check to see if you are
using an ISA, VLB, or MCA card. Multiple-monitors
require PCI or AGP cards for all display
adapters. |
| 5. |
Check to see whether any
third-party display control panels are installed.
Right click the desktop, and then click
Properties. Look for any tabs that are related to
the video cards in your system. Next, click
Settings, and then click Advanced. You should see
only the General, Adapter, Monitor, Performance,
Color Management, and possibly the ATI Display
tabs. You can usually remove any Display Control
Panel extensions that you find by using the
Add/Remove Programs feature in the Control Panel. |
Common Problems:
If your
system will not start when you have two video cards
installed or if the second comes up with a "code
12" in Device Manager, move all the video cards
needed to the slots that are closest to the
motherboard when on a riser card. Some systems only
support display adapter cards in the first one or two
slots closest to the motherboard.
If you
experience one of the following problems, disable
your on-board Rage II. This device cannot be used as
one of your multiple-monitor display adapters.
Your
on-board ATI Rage II displays vertical green bands
when you install the secondary card.
Your
system locks up during Startup, and the Automatic
Skip Driver (ASD) reports that my system died while
initializing a video ROM.
Your
IBM Aptiva locks up during Startup after detecting
the secondary, loading the drivers, and rebooting.
Nothing
happens when you click the Extend my Windows desktop
onto this monitor check box.
If a
yellow exclamation point appears beside one of your
video cards in Device Manager and if it indicates the
region of memory that the video card uses is in use,
try one of the following:
On
some laptops, you can specify where the region of
memory used by the video card is located in the
system BIOS. Set this to C000-CFFF or to the
largest range possible that begins with C000.
Remove EMM386.EXE
Type the following under the [386enh] section of
system.ini:
Emmexclude C000-CFFF
If your
system locks up after installing the secondary card
when you add a STB Workstation two-adapter card, then
the video cards in this system are configured
incorrectly by the system BIOS. As a result, it
destabilizes the entire system. Your particular
system probably cannot use video cards that are
behind PCI-PCI bridges.
If your
card is listed in the supported card section, but
Device Manager indicates that your card does not work
with Multiple Display Support, then make sure that
you are using the right driver, as listed at the
beginning of this document.
If
Device Manager indicates that my primary video card
cannot be disabled, your card is not supported in
this configuration for multiple-monitor.
If you
experience one of the following problems, then your
display driver is not compatible with multi-monitor.
Contact your vendor for an updated driver.
If your
screen goes black during Startup or your system hangs
and the Windows bootlog option indicates that the
problem occurred in GDI.
A
message appears on your screen indicating that a
fatal exception has occurred in GDI.
* Here's the link I promised at the
beginning of this page.
Multi-Monitor Resources at www.realtimesoft.com
Beemer's
Tips...
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