Comments on: Multiple Monitors with Windows Vista

By: John

John — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:11:17 +0000

Hey Brad..

The problem your experiencing is due to the fact that pc’s are not F$%ING supercomputers.. are you shocked that two disperate grafix cards dont work together? hell if you stick a Ford Carb in a GM machine it should work? right…. nahh.. your still on the roadside bro..

dude… if you want your requirements, get some hot HD, the same GFX vendor, and a nice nvidia MB.. frys should help you out if you’re confused, he he..

Peace..

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:15:44 +0000

Hey I was trying to get 3 monitors working. I have been using dual montiors for around 4 years now. I have a Vista Home 32bt OS, I have 1 Gefoce 7300LE(PCI Express), and I wanted to add a Geforce4 MX 420(PCI), for some reason Windows is disabling the drivers for the additional PCI card from running? Is it becaouse of the display drivers not being compatible with each model? Or perhaps I was thinking it could be a vista issue? Anyone have any solutions for this? Your help would be greatly greatly appreciated..
Thanks
Brad

By: mj

mj — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:30:38 +0000

hi. I have a dell d820 running vista pro. I am extending my monitor to be above the laptop. When the machine goes to sleep it always resets to side by side AND sets the monitor to be my primary rather than the laptop. ANy help is most appreciated.

By: andyparkes

andyparkes — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:55:14 +0000

Hi Graham

Can’t see any reason why two identical PCI cards shouldn’t do the job

If money isn’t any issue you could look at the Matrox external adapters

The have recently released their triplehead version

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/digital/home.php

They have dual and triple models in analog and digital flavours

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:36:39 +0000

This seems like a good place to get my noobish questions answered.

I have a new Vista machine & need to get 3 displays running at 1600×1200 (actually 1one display will do 1920×1200, but I’ll settle for 1600×1200, w/e). I currently have 2 running off the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT in my single PCI-e slot.

After scouring around the net, & per a suggestion somewhere, I purchased a NVIDIA Geforce FX 5200 to go in one of the PCI slots. But that wouldn’t allow me to use both vid cards at the same time….grrrr

If I purchase another GeForce 5200 PCI and have two identical of those running in 2 of the PCI slots, while throwing away the original PCI-e card, will that be able to run 3 displays in Vista? I dont care if it costs more; I just need the 3 displays up & running…it’s not for gaming or anything graphics intensive; I just need some screen real estate.

Someone said they didnt think that would work and may not allow Aero to be used if it does work at all.

Any thoughts/knowledge on this?

{Related: What about switching out the motherboard for one with 2 PCI-e slots?]

Thanks for any help/pointers?

Graham

By: andyparkes

andyparkes — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:52:24 +0000

Randy, RougueJD

In theory there is no reason for you not to be able to do multiple monitors in Vista with different video cards

What you wont be able to do use the full Aero interface…..

By: RogueJD

RogueJD — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:52:54 +0000

I agree with you totally Randy. I am completely upset that I can’t run an my 2 nVidia 8600GTs in SLI Mode and my ATI card for the second monitor.

Check out the SLIZone forums for detailed updates. They seem to be pretty knowledgeable.

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:37:05 +0000

Wow, I have 2 8800GT Nvidia graphics cards and 1 ATI Radeon x1600. I have my two 8800GT SLI together. I want to run 3 monitors, but stupid Windows Vista refuses to recognize my ATI. So I’m stuck with taking off SLI (TOTAL WASTE) or go back to XP.

By: andyparkes

andyparkes — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:45:58 +0000

Hi Karl

I would’t hold your breath for service pack one to fix your problems

The main issue most people have is the new driver model implementation which helps system stability but places restrictions on what you can do

I wouldn’t expect them to overhaul the driver model in service pack 1

By: karl

karl — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:34:25 +0000

i have 3 graphics cards that are useless to me because my new pc runs on vista, i installed xp and it worked fine but i ended up back on vista because its visually better, hopefully windows will get rid of the lockdown when the next service pack is released