DVI and VGA out can I use both...

[chim_knee]

Hi,

I have a graphics card (not sure which one but it's a fairly old 128Mb one, AGP 4x IIRC... Radeon 9000?) and it has 1 DVI out and 1 VGA out.

I currently have my TFT out of the DVI (fantastic picture) and I'm thinking of getting another TFT (which has both VGA & DVI inputs).

Can I run each monitor from one of the ports (i.e. DVI to DVI, and VGA to VGA) but have the screen real estate spread over the two monitors?

The idea being that I can get the monitor now but get a dual DVI graphics card "at a later date"...

Cheers,
Phil.

[Plotloss]

You should be able to, if its twin headed, but you need a DVI to VGA dongle.

[stuh]

chim_knee said:

Hi, I have a graphics card (not sure which one but it's a fairly old 128Mb one, AGP 4x IIRC... Radeon 9000?) and it has 1 DVI out and 1 VGA out. I currently have my TFT out of the DVI (fantastic picture) and I'm thinking of getting another TFT (which has both VGA & DVI inputs). Can I run each monitor from one of the ports (i.e. DVI to DVI, and VGA to VGA) but have the screen real estate spread over the two monitors? The idea being that I can get the monitor now but get a dual DVI graphics card "at a later date"... Cheers, Phil.

Yes. I was doing exactly that until i got my dual DVI card.............just needs a bit of fiddling with teh driver settings

[chim_knee]

Plotloss said:

You should be able to, if its twin headed, but you need a DVI to VGA dongle.

Cheers, one question - why would I need a dongle?

In case it's a matter of my description:

Each monitor has both a VGA AND a DVI input... the card has one of each.

I planned on connecting one monitor via VGA and the other via DVI.

Cheers,
Phil.

[Plotloss]

You would need a dongle because I didnt read the post properly.

Ignore me...

[chim_knee]

Plotloss said:

You would need a dongle because I didnt read the post properly. Ignore me...

Cheers!

[Graham]

sounds just like the view i've got here 2* tft monitors and a card with cga and dvi

[simpo two]

I have the same setup. I had a VGA-VGA lead for one monitor, but a VGA-DVI dongle wasn't an option due to restricted space.

However, a PHer very kindly sent me a surplus VGA-DVI lead. Problem solved in one go