Dual Monitors?

Willspireite · #1 (**permalink**) 16-09-2006, 03:47 PM

Hey folks,

Wonder if anyone can lend a hand here!

We had been using a laptop for presentations ... the laptop was linked into a splitter that took the signal from tha laptop and sent it to two projector screens that were hooked into the splitter too!

We bought a new desktop so we can use it for limited video editing too, the comp is an:

ADVENT T9207
Intel Pentium D Procesor 820 2.8GHZ
Dual layer DVD Re-Writer
NVIDIA GeForce 7300SE
250GB HD
1024MB DDR2

Thing is I can't seem to hook the desktop up to the splitter!!
I've checked through the display options, but it doesn't give an option to use dual monitors ... am well confused, cos looked at the settings for the graphics card and it said it supported multi monitors!

Help wpuld be greatly appreciated!

madmikejt12 · #2 (**permalink**) 16-09-2006, 04:43 PM

Hi, Welcome to D-A-L

What happens when you plug your splitter into your desktop and then the projector(s) into the splitter?

What type of splitter is it?

Do you get any error messages?

Regards,
Mike

Willspireite · #3 (**permalink**) 16-09-2006, 04:53 PM

Hey Mike,

Thanks for welcome, and help!

Here it is ...
IF I plug the cable from the desktop into the the "Video In" port at the splitter, then place the cable from the monitor into one of the "Video Out" ports, then the projectors AND the monitor show the same thing.

If I do anything else with the cables, then the projectors seem to refuse to work, or else the monitor will show nothing.

What I want is to be able to use ppt on the monitor as the presenter view, and the projectors as the audience view.

Do you know if that's possible?

The video splitter box is a four way, coded VS-814.

I've been glancing around internet and some suggest the need for two PCI cards ... how does that work? Would that be what I need?

madmikejt12 · #4 (**permalink**) 17-09-2006, 02:50 PM

sorry, i do not understand what you want to do

do you want both the projector(s) and monitor to show the same thing or 'join up' so you have a bigger display (over 2 screens)

dderolph · #5 (**permalink**) 18-09-2006, 06:37 PM

Does that NVIDIA GeForce 7300SE card have two monitor connectors on it? What type are they?

I'm running dual CRT monitors with an AGP nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 card, which one VGA and one DVI connector. Both monitors use a VGA connector. So, I have a DVI-to-VGA adapter on the card's DVI connector in order to connect a monitor to it. I can have separate desktops on each monitor or clone them, which is what you want to do.