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To: Street Walker who wrote (1279)6/11/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen  Read Replies (3) of 14778
 
Multimonitors and Win 98

This information comes from Microsoft.

"How Windows 98 supports multiple monitors
Windows 98 can support up to nine monitors on a single PC. (Here's an opportunity to put to work that spare monitor left over from your old PC.) Each monitor requires a separate video card, and all display adapters must be Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) or Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) devices. One video card will be assigned "primary" status. Any PCI graphics adapter with a Windows 95 or later driver (with the exception of motherboard or on-board video) can be used as a primary display."

See microsoft.com for the full article. Perhaps you can use an on-board video chip for one of your monitors. Microsoft says an on-board video chip can not be used as the primary display but they didn't say it couldn't be used for a secondary display.

I haven't bought a video adapter in a long time so I can not recommend a video adapter. However, I also read into Microsoft's statement "Any PCI graphics adapter with a Windows 95 or later driver can be used as a primary display." that most any video adapter providing it has a Windows 95 or later driver can be used for a secondary display. If this is true then most any generic video adapter can be used. For example Dirk Hente reported in Reply #68 he was able to successfully use a $30 no-name S3 Trio64 V2 video adapter in a multimonitor configuration.

I do not know what Microsoft means by Primary and Secondary Status, display. Hopefully somebody else can jump in and explain these terms.

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