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To: peter n matzke who wrote (556)	5/3/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Dirk Hente	Respond to of 14778

Peter, i can give you only a few hints based on my experience with Matrox Millennium cards and NT 4.0. Actually i did nothing special i just followed the matrox installation intructions. I think its the best to start with one card including installation of the Matrox MGA driver. Next, you plug in the secondary cards but make sure you disable the VGA mode of these cards. After booting the system you must go to the 'MGA Monitor' panel of the 'Display Properties' window. The MGA Monitor panel allows you to select one card for each monitor. This way you adjust the settings of each card individually for each monitor (the resolutions however must be the same). [may be you have to boot now, i am not sure] After this, you select the 'MGA Settings' panel. There you can see depending on the number of cards installed up to 4 monitors. Select the multimon configuration thats your favourite, i guess its the one that spans your destop over all monitors (It may be necessary to adjust the resolution for the 'Desktop area') and reboot your system. After this you should see your desktop being spanned over all monitors. Finally, you may go to the 'Advanced Settings' of the 'MGA Settings' panel. The 'MGA PowerDesk' panel allows you to specify whether popup windows are always centered on one monitor. If you enable this option, you can prevent 'window splitting'. Because all these installation specifics depend on the graphic card manufacturer, it may be different if you dont have Millennium cards. Remember, that NT 4.0 doesnt support multi mon cards for all kind of pci cards. You always need special drivers (the Microsoft NT drivers wont work)