Can I connect 3 Monitors on one PC (Spanning)?

Question

I have one workstation connected to stock market, I am using PNY Nvidia GeForce 6200 Video Card, and I connected 2 monitors on this card, I can see different things on each monitor, but now I am working in another stock market (Dubai) I need to watch it from same computer on another screen, can any one help me, I think these are the solutions:
1. PCI card that support multimonitors.
2. USB or any external VGA device
3. Two Computer: (No Way) My office decorate can't handle more than one case.
4. If I found a VGA card with one VGA + DVI + S-Video, can I span between these three outputs.

Answer 1

Hello:
I usually have 2 monitors on all my computers, and often have 4 monitors. You can use any combination of single or dual out AGP or PCI cards. Years ago, I would use one AGP, and 3 PCI cards. There is a list of the cards that are compliant with multiple monitor use on the Microsoft website in a FAQ, but almost ANY newer card, circa 1996 and newer should work, to be compliant with the new VGA standards.
Since I am running out of PCI slots on some of my newer motherboards, I am trying the DUAL 15 pin AGP cards outputs.
This gives me 2 monitors on one card. Then, if I have the free slots, I just put in 2 inexpensive PCI cards. There is NO need to put in expensive PCI video cards, since nothing " high end" will run on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th monitor in any event, since DIRECTX turns off all the high end features. Only the main monitor " 1 " will run high end graphics. You are looking at TEXT windows in any event, since all the stock pages and programs I have used to date, have very simple page layouts with little animation / sound / and graphics. Older 4 meg PCI cards should be available for $5. If you do not have any spare PCI card slots, then you are forced to be creative - you do not mention how many of what slots that you HAVE on your motherboard - or for that matter, you do not list the name of the motherboard, nor do you list what cards you ARE using in the motherboard, so that you leave anyone trying to help you, guessing a great many possibilities.
Since you already have one Dual monitor, 15 pin VGA plug, out, video card, your best solution is to put in a PCI card for the 3rd monitor ( if you have a free PCI slot ). I have had to remove a 56K modem and a LAN ethernet, PCI cards, and put in a single COMBO 56K/Lan card, to allow me to use another PCI card. Most most modern motherboards ( again you do not state which one ) have onboard LAN, onboard Sound, and even 56K, so that this compensates for the lack of 6 or 8 solid PCI slots that one could find on older motherboards. The newer motherboards are getting smaller and smaller as well, so there is no room for the PCI's.
Looking on the PNY website, there are only 2 of the 6200 cards under "products", both AGP, although a web search mentions one 6200 which is PCIX ( express). There appear to be NO PCI 6200's. This means that you are not using any of your PCI slots for video.
Hopefully, you can find a way to just put in any old PCI video card, and add any old monitor ( $25- ), and configure the windows settings under DISPLAY, to add the new, 3rd unit. (( NOTE: using old second hand inexpensive monitors, even with digital on screen programming, and fairly modern, MAY require a sheet of tin between the monitors. I use tin in an L shape, under each monitor next to the monitor beside it, grounded to a wire to the monitor's chassis. Where 2 tins meet, I use corrugated cardboard or thin wood sheeting between the two sheets of tin. This is to prevent cheap, non-shielded monitors from drawing interference patterns on the other monitors. You will get one horizontal line slowly running from top to bottom for each monitor - 4 monitors will produce multiple lines on all machines. If you get a $3200 Mitsubishi Diamond Pro T 21 inch type of monitor, the tube is already completely covered in a metal covering.-- most "home" use monitors just have the plastic casing over the electronics though, and a price to match. )) As I said, I always run 2 monitors, often one AGP, and one PCI, with no problems, and the video cards are inexpensive. One AGP single and 3 PCI singles are just as easy, and the last computer I built was an XP with 1 AGP dual, with 2 PCI singles. Finding an " old " inexpensive, PCI with 2 monitor outs, is rare. Since, like you, I am using the extra 3 monitors for simple tasks, such as text pages, there is no reason to get a screaming "AGP-compliant " chipset PCI card with 256 Meg of ram and a high end GPU ( $130 - $ 250 + ) -- a $5 card does the same job. Note that I have two monitors on the desk side by side, and two directly on top of these, to save desk space. It works well, and the mouse is easy to move from one monitor to another in the least amount of travel -- as opposed to having 4 in a row, where the screen on the left is a huge distance from the rightmost desktop.
If you get a chance to post more information on the number of free PCI slots, or other details, please post them and I will check back.
The DV and the 15 pin VGA dual plug cards often have 2 monitors like yours, but on all the cards I have, the Video out is a jumper over to the VGA source, NOT a 3rd monitor.
There were some custom, high-end cards that have been offered with more than 2 monitors, but I have not seen one on the consumer market. Compared to a $5 PCI card, which is easily available, I would not even think of looking for a 4 monitor AGP or PCI-X card. I have seen video cards for $4000 to $8000 - however - to simply display a page of stock market quotes, this would be overkill!
LASTLY ... there are widescreen LCD monitors that have ordinary 15 pin VGA plugs on them as well as the other common inputs. You could purchase one of these, and just have 2 programs or screens running beside each other - just like adding another monitor... by stretching the desktop over the width of the wider monitor.
OR, similarly, you can get a doublehead or triplehead2go from MATROX, and plug in extra monitors to stretch your desktop wider, hence, more windows open at the same time.

www.matrox.com/graphics/triplehead2go/support

($ 150 to $350 on various web locations )

review at http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/review/th2go.htm

With these combinations, you could get many more open views, and... if you coupled this with a widescreen LCD, you would have a virtually unlimited viewing area. If you used 3 widescreen LCDs with ONE triplehead on ONE VGA 15pin output on your existing Video card, and one widescreen on the other 15 pin VGA output, you would have 4 wide monitors, covering, typically, for 20 inch wide monitors, 80 inches, or, 6 1/2 FEET of monitor viewing room on your desk - without adding a single PCI, AGP, or PCIX video card...

[ [ [ and to answer your other question, I know 3 people who could not wake up. ... All have gone to a sleep clinic where they slept overnight plugged into a harness of wiring monitors tapped all over them. They all had sleep apnia, and all got a little machine that pressurizes the air they breath through a soft clear rubbery mask at night when they sleep. They all report being wide awake and more able to concentrate and have more energy. One person is older, retired and male, another person is young, in college, and female. Considering the information you provided, I would look up the nearest medical resource that offers this testing. The machine is too expensive, but changes your entire life... good luck ] ] ]

hope this helps

robin

Answer 2

I don't know about the options you list but I think there is another option. I don't know the name of the monitor but IBM used to make a rather large monitor that you hooked up to a dumb terminal and could program to watch at least 4 different operations at the same time. I believe that there is a color equivalent made today that would allow you to monitor 3 or even 4 different stock markets from one monitor just by dividing up the monitor into quarters.

This is not "just" opening up 4 different windows. You have to hit specific key commands to move from one quadrant (or screen if you will) to another quadrant. The commands you issue will only affect the screen or stork market in which you are currently active. Nor do I think you are using a dumb terminal anymore but are hooking up to one or more computers. Unfortunately, I don't know brand names or have any other info on how it works. But I do believe that this is on the market and would allow you to work with only one monitor instead of 3. It would still provide the constant visual that you seem to want of all 3 stock markets or 2 stock markets and whatever else you wanted to do on the third quadrant.

Answer 3

There are mult-plexor ( a device that take one input and sends to two or more outputs) for video output available in the market. You can buy the same and connect video output of your cabinet to this multi-plexor and through the outlets of the multi-plexor to the monitors. Note this will give you the same image in all the three monitors and it cannot be used by three different users like 3 PCs.The only reason for having 2 or more monitors occurs during billing or any other business where you want your customer also to see what is being keyed in by you and a third one for your boss to look.

Answer 4

I'll take a stab at this: 1.Right-click Desktop 2.Properties 3.Settings 4.Click the Second monitor icon, down below click the Extend my desktop to this monitor. In the window,(bar), that shows you the graphics adapter, click the down arrow to the right to view the other adapter. Do the same thing for this adapter as you did above,( might show 3rd monitor icon). 5.Minimize the window you want to extend,(Browser window, Photoshop, etc.), take your cursor to the side of the window, when it forms the <-> arrow use it to drag the window over to one monitor,(actually stretching), and drag the other side of the screen to the other monitor. (MINIMIZING is the trick, before you drag!)

Answer 5

Yes you want the connect 3 monitors on one piece are easy. connects the PC wire a hub and hub connect the three separate monitors.And it is helpful for your work improves.

Answer 6

Connect 3 Monitors To Pc