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To: Spots who wrote (7458)	5/12/1999 11:06:00 PM
From: Ross C Conrad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Multi monitors ..... Digital LCD I want to buy two IBM T55D LCD monitors and run them on one card. The only card that I have found that will run two or four "digital" monitors is made by STB. IBM can ship with a card made by Matrox but I will need to buy a second Matrox G200 card for the second monitor, and an add-on daughter board to allow both monitors to run. Has anyone out there had any experience with the "Symmetry PCI-multi-port adapter" (STB MVP PRO 128) stbmvp.com Does their software (specialized drivers) known as the STB Virtual Desktop that allow users to operate with seamless mouse operations from one display to the next slow down the refresh rates. Will this software make any difference in performance .. I will be running Windows NT 4.0 or will NT's built in multi support give me good mouse control. I have not experienced two monitors but need the extra desktop space. Also will be looking at 256 ram P2B and a processor in the 400 or 500 area . any ideas... thanks

To: Spots who wrote (7458)	5/13/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ALL you have to do to multiboot an NT on another drive is to add a line to the boot.ini file which clues NT in to where the alternate NT system is. Everything went well until the actual boot attempt. This backup copy of NT is on the same disk as the origin except one partition over, so the added line in boot.ini was the same as the existing line except Partition(1) changed to Partition(2). Both OSs show up during boot. When I choose the new one though, the message comes up that NT cannot start because the file winnt\system32\Ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt. So back to an original NT boot, check the new OS for that file and its there alright. Next, thinking it may be corrupt, I replace it with a copy from the original NT system32 folder, which I know is good since I just booted it. Back to try a boot from the new backup copy and the same message comes up. Why is this Ntoskrnl.exe file apparently working ok in the original NT but not in the backup copy? Sorry to be so long getting back. Not a problem:-) Clarence