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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Street Walker who wrote (1279)	6/11/1998 1:12:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

multimonitors...disabling graphics card built into a mobo. Some boards disable the video card when you install a new card and some require you to move a jumper. See the previous post to Bob for a way to get the mobo manufacture/model. BIOS Basic Input Output System You access bios at boot time. Sometimes you see hit F1 or del or.(some try to keep it a secret)..during boot to access setup. This will take you into the bios. Here you can set some basic computer configurations, energy saving features, boot sequence, floppy drive settings and enabling / disabling certain on board functions etc. Be careful in the bios, you can screw things up. The documentation that came with my 3 com NIC suggested that I upgrade my bios. I did and experienced no problems. The general rule is to NOT upgrade the bios unless there is a problem as one may cause an unexpected new problem. Get more info on the mobo. The answer is not in the bios as one needs video to "see" the bios. good definition of bios here techweb.com Zeuspaul

To: Street Walker who wrote (1279)	6/11/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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.