Help! How I can put two Monitor on my PC?

Question

I have HP a250n and have Geforce 6800GT. I have a new monitor which is 24 inch dell. But I got a problem. I don't want to dispose my old 17 inch CRTt monitor. I there a chance that I can use two monitors on my PC???

Answer 1

yess... use Nvdia driver, dual display. maybe you must by a 'connector' from DVi socket to regular VGA socket, so you can plug the old monitor in the regular VGA socket and the new one in the 'Connector'.
if your HP monitor use DVi socket, you're safe...

Just setup your NVDIA driver

Answer 2

Setting up your system is not difficult. You will nedd at least 2 monitors :) and 2 video cards or a single video card with two monitor connections.

for more details check out this link

http://www.helpero.com/Questions-and-answers/Computers/Hardware/How-do-you-connect-two-monitors-to-one-computer_517.html

regards

Answer 3

If you want to use two monitors at the same time, have a look here: http://www.geek.com/features/doublevision/index.htm (Win 98) or here for windows XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/multimonitor.mspx
If you want to use dual monitors one at a time, you simply need a switch box. The monitor cable from PC goes to the switch box, one cable from switch box goes to each monitor. Have a look here: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Home.aspx

Answer 4

connect one via using DVI and one via using VGA. Then pass into nVidia administration settings and enable the 2d computer screen as an extension of your very own computer. I presume you wanted to run a twin computer screen set-up?

Answer 5

Yes it's possible

Answer 6

you can either use a video moniter switch gear or get two video cards

Answer 7

There is a chance. Would you like to know how to do it?

Answer 8

yesu can do it go and but connector for it and start using

Answer 9

Hey Y'all -- I was looking at another answer that had the same question - wanting more monitors - I am just copying and pasting the other answer so it is not my own ( it is robin_graves ) but it seems you could use some suggestions on your system
hope it helps - there are some good links already answered above as well !




( other answer to a guy who looks at stock markets and wants a 3rd monitor as well as the 2 he is using... )
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/triple...

($ 150 to $350 on various web locations )

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

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...

Answer 10

yes use your nVia program to install...good luck!