i recently bought a second monitor with the intention of running an extended desktop over two screens. its been about a fortnight and i still cant set it up. I can find no documentation from ATI anywhere and their customer support (when i hasnt been down for maintenance) has been useless. does anyone know how im supposed to connect my primary and secondary monitors? Theres a D-sub and DVI-D caple connection on my card and ofcourse the original D-sub on my computer. Im trying to connect a LCD as a primary and a CRT as a secondary. My card (a radeon 9600XT) is supposed to be able to run extended desktop it just has no documentation on how you are supposed to connect the two monitors. Am i supposed to be getting some sort of third device to attach to my video card or something? thanks for any help anyone can give.
note: im not looking for info on how to set it up through ATIs controll panel UI, ive figured that out. it just cant see the connection to my second monitor and i dont know how im supposed to have connected it
it takes me a while to figure it out too when setting mine up with my 9700 (during the short moments when i have 2 monitors to hook up). most of the fiddeling is in the display properties. i'm sure there's a seeting in there to say 'extend desktop to other screen' or something. i still cant figure out how to watch video in ful screen on the second screen though.
woot woot woot!!!!
i got it working, thanks a million and one clod.
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/MoonUnit/2005351443_Dualscreen.j…]
interestingly enough my LCD does support DVI and i did attempt to connect it soley by its DVI connection but it only diplayed the windows start up images (like the XP logo with the loading bar) and tinted purple. My card did come with the adaptor so i discarded the DVI and now both monitors are connected by d-sub. I shoulda come here first isntead of messing around with ATI customer service :P
thanks again, now... onto modelling with my fancy new setup ey?
here's a tip: if you drag the toolbar in max over to the second monitor (which is a stupid idea cos it then takes ages to move the mouse over to it anyway) make sure you drag it back again before you get rid of your dual screen set up. if you dont, as i found out the hard way, when you load max the toolbar will not be present and you have to re-load the UI setting everytime you start up max! garh! (it's all fixed now though so dont worry people).
OH! I spot an AGDC squishy ball! did you go around nicking all the freebees too?
heh heh yeah thats the speechworks ball, me and cam went on a freebees hunt one session when we had nothing better to do :P
10 points to the first person who can tell me the name of the movie character who appears twice in that photo (thats right i got two toy thingys, im a merch whore)
and no worries livewire... i use maya :P
C'mon Moonunit...We know why you really wanted the dual screen set up!
DOUBLE THE HOFF!!
[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2005359202_HOFF.jpg[/img]
found a good program basicaly for anyone with dual screen (whatever your card): http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/ for whoevers interested
Just to be sure you're asking how to connect them up to the computer physically right?
If your LCD supports DVI, connect it to the DVI port, and your CRT to the d-sub. Otherwise you will need to connect both LCD and CRT through d-sub. You'll need to get a DVI to d-sub adaptor if it didn't already come with your card, so that you will end up with two d-sub ports on the back of your 9600XT.