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    Two/Dual External Monitors on a laptop.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cal_dilbert, Jan 27, 2006.

  1. cal_dilbert

    cal_dilbert Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi people,

    I want to run two external (non-mirrored) monitors from my laptop's DVI/VGA output port.

    Has anyone tried doing this? Is there some sort of a Y-splitter that I can buy to make this happen ??

    thanks a lot, appreciate it.
     
    cal_dilbert, Jan 27, 2006
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    strikeback03 Notebook Deity

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    I might be wrong, but doesn't the video card have to support dual monitors? i.e. it has 2 outputs, and a setting to expand to dual monitor. On one of our desktops at work we have a dual monitor setup, the video card has a D-sub and a DVI port, the (CRT) monitors are hooked up to these. Don't think just a splitter would do it.
     
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  3. cal_dilbert

    cal_dilbert Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well most video card now days support multiple monitors, I am not sure whether the limitation to two monitors is because of the number of outputs or the max. resolution supported by the video card.

    For example, at work I have a dell machine which has an ATI X600 card with a SINGLE DVI output. Yesterday I was fooling around in the lab and I found a DVI Splitter cable such as the one shown here:

    http://www.pacificcable.com/Picture_Page.asp?DataName=DVIY-2

    I connected it to the video card and connected two 2001fpw monitors and wow! I am running both displays at 1600x1200x60Hz each.

    So there is more to the story - dual-link dvi, no of display pipelines etc - and hopefully I will find out soon.

    thanks for your contribution.
     
    cal_dilbert, Jan 29, 2006
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    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    Brian, Jan 29, 2006
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