David,

To connect it to your computer you will have to connect it
to a video card capable of driving two monitors.

Reading back I see that my "I would like to attach a second screen to my
'puter" starting line does sound a bit like "help me with *everything*".
:-\


Yes, I have few PCs with double video-output (two with double DVI, one with
SVGA and a RCA or S-video). I might have skipped that information as I
thought that, for my queste to succeede, that would go without notion.

I also did once successfully configure one of them to have one desktop
stretched over two outputs, meaning that both the OS and hardware are
actually capable of handling two seperate screens.

The question was therefore aimed, or so I thought, at configuring the OS (XP
pro, sp3).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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David H. Lipman schreef in berichtnieuws
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From: "R.Wieser"

David,

This un-named TV screen (as you call it), what forms of Video Input
does
it have ?

Standard SVGA connection, just as my primary monitor. It ofcourse also
has
chinch and scart too, but those are not compatible with my videocard :-)

How come you ask ?

Regards,

Because to handle a TV Screen off a computer you need to connect a
computer
to it and there are a few connectors; VGA, DVI, HDMI, Y-B-G RCA, and
RF/F-Connector. That gives us a starting point.

To connect it to your computer you will have to connect it to a video card
capable of driving two monitors. Either a card with a dual VGA "Y" cable
or
a card with dual VGA ports on the card. Otherwise you will have to
supplement the video card already in the PC with a PCI card with a VGA
port.

I had an end-user who wantged three monitors. He was using a Dell
Latititude D630 notebook with a miniture "D" series docking station. One
monitor was connected via VGA, the other molnitor was connected to the DVI
port whichj were on the docking station. I replaced the miniture "D"
series
docking station with a full sized "D" series docking station and installed
a
PCI video card in the docking station. The PCI card had a VGA port which
colnnected to the third monitor. He loved it. MS Excel in one screen MS
Outlook on the second screen and his DeskTop on the third.

I once tried a video exapansion device. It was an external VGA device
with
three VGA outputs (Left - Middle - Right). It had software run on the PC
and allowed the screen to vitually show over three monitors. It was a
cludgy solution at best and was tossed oin the circular file.

Ref:
Dell D-Dock

http://discountechnology.com/Product...0&gclid=CKOMuf
7MqqACFSFy5QodOyZfag


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Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp