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To: Street Walker who wrote (1063)	6/4/1998 6:00:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Win '98: how many multimonitors will it support? As many PCI slots available? Further information on this subject. PC Magazine, June 30, 1998 page 103, says up to 9 monitors may be connected to a single computer provided your computer supports that many video cards. However, PC Magazine doesn't provide any detail. For instance they didn't mention the possibility of using multiple monitors with a video card that supports multiple monitors and where you find a computer with 9 slots for video adapters.

To: Street Walker who wrote (1063)	7/2/1998 1:41:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 14778

Win98..dual monitors...Matrox I have not had much luck maintaining my multimonitor Win 98 system. I have the Matrox Productiva G100 in the AGP slot and the Millenium II in the PCI slot. I am using the beta Win98 Matrox drivers released yesterday. Both monitors are working but I have experienced several system crashes when using the second monitor. Perhaps I did not install the drivers properly. I have two cards but I only executed one installation file. It did not ask me any questions. When I enabled the second monitor with the new drivers there was a message that not all applications are designed to work with multiple monitors and wanted to know if I wanted to continue. The first time the system froze was when I was setting the resolution and color depth on the second monitor (NEC 3FGx). I played with it a bit and everything seemed ok. I have since experienced three additional crashes/freezes. One using IE4 and two using Netscape 4.05. (I switched back to Netscape after using IE4 for a day. I could not figure out how to set up two ISP accounts in IE4) Everything works ok until I use the second monitor. I have not been able to use the second monitor with a browser for more than ten minutes without a freeze. It seems as if the monitor looses its sync or something similar and then locks the entire system. I do not know what the problem is but I do not consider my multimonitor setup stable. The last crash rendered my modem useless. A cold boot did not restore the modem to a working condition. Win98 recommended that I turn the modem off and then on again. I do not know how to do that. (Win 98 also told me not to EVER shut down the system without going through the shut down procedure. I also do not know how to shut down the machine properly when neither the keyboard nor the mouse respond) The backup drives proved to be a good trouble shooting and restoration tool. I booted Win95 and verified that the modem was still working. Once verified I cloned the day old Win98 installation to the primary drive and was back up again with a working modem. Zeuspaul