Aaron writes,
<The Radeon 9200 will drive two monitors by itself!
>From the manufacturer's web site:
>Advanced Dual Display Support
> Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions
> and refresh rates
>Specifications
> ...
> Integrated TV-Out supports up to 1024x768 resolution
> Multiple Display connections
> DVI-I port
> VGA port
> S-Video port
> DVI-I to VGA & S-Video to Composite adaptors included>
Wow, really?
Hmmmmmmm.......OK, looks like I don't have all the right adapters
then...but I should also admit, I'm hardly what anybody could call "tech
savvy" when it comes to matters like this. Up until I opened the box
containing the Radeon, I had never even seen a video card! When I ordered
it (over the phone with a guy at OWC -- I called to confirm that it
would work in a G4 Quicksilver 867 since the web page confused me -- and
he took my order on the phone). But anyway, no adapters came with it, and
no I didn't think to ask for any -- not tech savvy remember? I had
ordered a couple of sticks of 512 MB RAM at the same time, and all that
came in the box was the Radeon and the two RAM sticks.
Anyhoo, just now (prior to answering this) -- since in the December
computer area reorganization to fit the second monitor on my desk, the G4
tower got moved to an area where it's now even harder for me to look at
its backside than it was before (so I can't even attempt to trace what's
going out of the Radeon...or the NVIDIA for that matter), I went to ASP
Graphics/Displays to see if I could figure out how it was hooked up.
Result: yes, I see the Radeon running my primary monitor, a Gateway EV910
19", and for the first time, I actually notice that it COULD be running a
second display -- it says:
Display:
Status: No display connected.
But I have no idea from that what kind of adapter is running to the
Gateway, or what I'd need to run into the secondary monitor (an ancient
but functioning 15" NEC MultiSync XV15+). I still went to Google Image
search in hopes of seeing the "backside" of a Radeon 9200. Couldn't find
an image big enough for my aging eyes to be able to distinguish the
ports, though, maybe just as well because I'm yet too ignorant to tell
which is which..
OK, I'll give my BF a call tonight! Oh wait! OMG! NOW I remember why I
had to wait till December to get the second monitor (the NEC) hooked up!
I had suggested it in November, his previous visit. We brought the NEC
into the bedroom where my computer desk is, but he looked at it and
behind the G4, then we looked through that "Unidentified Computer Stuff"
bottom drawer of my filing cabinet and he said I was going to need
another video card, because I didn't have the right kind of adapter to
connect the Radeon to the second monitor. I said I still had my old
NVIDIA and went to get it, but it wasn't where I thought I'd put it, and
20 minutes of looking, it didn't turn up. Naturally, I found it the day
AFTER he went home! Anyway, since he hooked everything up, if I refresh
his memory ("you couldn't make the Radeon drive both monitors because I
was missing an adapter -- so what kind am I missing?" -- he'll be able to
tell me what it was, and if he doesn't have one at home (he always brings
stuff like that if he has it, and most of the time, he has "it," whatever
it is!), I could post a WTB on the Swap List to get one.
WOW. Thank you, Aaron! :-)
~Yersinia.
________
"Mycelium is yourcelium."
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