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stevedave

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I have a 22" lcd, and my wife just got 2 free matching dell 15" crt's from her work.

I want to hook up All three monitors to work as 1. I have been able to hook up 2 that work as one but can't do three.

I have 2 7600GT with 1 DVI, 1 VGA and 1 S-video.

I can't run multiple monitors in SLI but can I use both video cards out of sli?

I know running 3 monitors can be done I have see it so how do I do it?

None of the monitors use S-video so that port is useless.

Thanks in advance.
 
get another video card... you don't need anything fancy... just something that has another DVI port, or VGA if that's what you need. A PCI video card should cost somewhere around 50 bucks.
 
so even though I already have 2 video cards I have to buy another card that is PCI.

Is there any way to convert S-video to VGA?
 
Get a cheap 2 port ATI PCI graphics card and connect the two monitors to it, you can then run your main monitor in SLI.
 
Sense there is no other way to connect 3 monitors on to 2 pci express cards I need a PCI video card, does anyone have any recommendations? I want cheap cards no 8800gtx's.
 
stevedave said:
Sense there is no other way to connect 3 monitors on to 2 pci express cards I need a PCI video card, does anyone have any recommendations? I want cheap cards no 8800gtx's.
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You can connect three monitors to two PCI-E cards (I have a setup that does just that), its just that if the cards are in an SLI configuration you can only run a single monitor. Poke around on Newegg for a video card that will fit your price range. You can drill down the different options and get something that does exactly what you need it to.
 
I don't care about sli I just want to hook 3 monitors up.

So I can hook two monitors to the top video cards and one to the bottom and it will work? I tried that once and Couldn't get it working, I'll try it again when I get home but I'l convert the 22" from Dvi to vga so that way I have 3 vga instead of 2vga and 1 dvi.
 
stevedave said:
So I can hook two monitors to the top video cards and one to the bottom and it will work? I tried that once and Couldn't get it working, .
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You just have to match the card outputs to the monitor inputs. DVI or VGA doesn't matter. What you're not doing is going to settings and clicking in the third monitor and checking "Extend my windows desktop to this monitor".

When you get them all up and running....you'll need Ultramon. It kinda smooths out all the rough edges of using multiple monitors. For example, it allows moving a maximized window to another monitor, Windows does'nt allow this.
 
Thanks i'll give that a try when I get home from work

the TripleHead2Go would be sweet but not 300 bucks sweet.
 
Got all three monitors working just fine and I was wondering if there is a way from me to watch a movie on the right screen while playing a game (warcraft3) on the main screen. Right now I start the movie and it stops playing when I start up WC3. It would proably work if there was a way to open WC3 in a windowed mode instead of full screen but I don't think that can be done.

So is there anyway to play a movie while playing Warcraft3?
 
You have to play in windowed mode if you want video on another screen. Games that don't have an option for windowed mode sometimes have a way to enable it in the .ini file. In other games, users have found ways to run games in windowed mode through command line edits. Apparently, its a pretty easy thing to force a game to run in windowed mode even if its not officially supported. You'll just have to do some Googling.
 
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