Here's the situation. My boss wants to hook up two LCD monitors to her Dell machine running WinXP to expand her desktop. Her videocard is just the Intel whatever that's onboard. I've done some looking into it, and it seems as though there are two ways to do it.
1) Get a PCI video card and make sure the settings in BIOS are right etc.
2) Get a dual monitor AGP card and hook up both monitors.
I was thinking Option 2 would probably be easier. I found a cheap card here but have some concerns since I ran upon this thread. Specifically the post that says:
What does this mean? Will two LCDs work with this card? If not, how can I tell which ones will? Is this guy even making any sense? To me it seems that a monitor is a monitor, at least in the plug-n-play sense. Why would a video card care what type of monitor it is? Would the card I linked work? If not, does anyone know one for a similar price that would? I'm confused...
Thanks all.
1) Get a PCI video card and make sure the settings in BIOS are right etc.
2) Get a dual monitor AGP card and hook up both monitors.
I was thinking Option 2 would probably be easier. I found a cheap card here but have some concerns since I ran upon this thread. Specifically the post that says:
Beware that some dual-monitor cards are not dual-vga, but rather will support one vga (crt) monitor and one lcd monitor. The way you tell is if the card has two ramdacs it'll support two crts using a dvi-converter on the dvi output. If it has only one ramdac, a dvi-converter on the dvi output will not work.
What does this mean? Will two LCDs work with this card? If not, how can I tell which ones will? Is this guy even making any sense? To me it seems that a monitor is a monitor, at least in the plug-n-play sense. Why would a video card care what type of monitor it is? Would the card I linked work? If not, does anyone know one for a similar price that would? I'm confused...
Thanks all.