Dual Montiors, Dual Videocards, Hauppauge WinTV GO! and Win2

[INFERNO2000 0]

I'm wondering if it's possible to set up 2 video cards, and ATI Xpert XL PCI and an Nvidia GeForce DDR in Windows 2000, in such a way that I can run all my windows applications on my 17" monitor(plugged into my GeForce), and have WinTV running on my 14" monitor(plugged into my Xpert). I would need to do this using different resolutions..800x600 with my Xpert, and 1280x 1024 with my GeForce.

 

Is this possible to setup? System resources is not a problem...I have enough PCI slots, and Memory to run everything properly. I'm just wondering about limitations of software.

[ByronT 0]

You should be able to. The only thing holding you back might be the availability of good drivers for that ATI card. ATI is STILL struggling to get non-beta Win2K drivers available.

 

FWIW, I've got a Viper V770, and an ATI AIW 128 - which would allow me to output it to TV (though I'm not touching the ATI beta drivers. The last time I did, my system went belly up.)

 

HTH

[Four and Twenty 0]

the resolution thing shouldn't be a problem. i have used a 17 @ 1024/768 and a 15 @ 800/600 and i worked great. I am getting a new 19 inch flat samsung monitor next week which will be nice. Then my 17 incher will be the small one. I can't f.uckin wait.

 

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My System

Dell Demension XPS T500

Dual Boot

Windows 2000 Pro 2195

Windows Millennium Final

PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)

256 Megs Ram

TNT2 Ultra Graphics Card

Matrox Millennium PCI (for second monitor)

3Com 10/100 Ethernet Card

3Com 56k Modem

12.6 Gig IBM HD

40X CD Rom Drive

100 Mb Zip Drive

MS Optical Mouse

[solaris8 0]

I am having a lot of problem running my Wintv pci with dual monitors in win2k. The system with either lockup the minute I run the wintv application or bad video image with high CPU usage. It works great if I disable the second monitor when watch TV. According to Hauppauge, my problem has to do with via chipset in win2k. Hope you have better luck than me.

 

My system:

Win2k pro

Athlon 700, Abit K7a, 256MB

3D prophet DDR-DVI

TNT1 PCI

SB live vaule

Netgear FX310

WinTV PCI