No he said it came with a y-adapter as part & parcel of the package. I thought ATI
stopped doing that years back with 7000 series Radeons but it looks no to be the case.
Be sure to have latest Catalyst package installed and to make the monitor selection
in CCC.
Forget dual desktop, try & see if you can get single desktop on each monitor (1 at a
time, swap) and then figure out what's wrong with dual in extend desktop mode.
DHSinclair wrote:
Jim,
I am no expert, but, if you desire to run 2 panels, you might just need
a video card that arrives to you with 2 DVI connectors on its' back
end. I suspect that there is extra hdw logic on the card to deal w/both
DVI connectors AND multi panels/monitors. Then, there is/are the card's
driver(s)............. :)
Just my simple share. I am so far out of touch w/modern video cards, I
can already hear the peals of laughter from the Collective. It's OK.
I'm old school............. :)
Best,
Duncan
At 16:57 01/29/2009 -0800, you wrote:
I bought two Dell 22" wide-scrren LCD monitors (2208WFP). I have a
Dell Optiplex 745(?) running WINXP SP2 and a ATI X1300PRO 256MB video
card.
The X1300 has a single DVI connector, but with a Y-splitter, I should
be able to have two DVI cables or two VGA cables - one to each monitor
- depending on which splitter I use. I want to use dual DVI, but
problem is, I can only get one monitor to turn on when I try to extend
the desktop. Whatever the magic combination of drivers, cables and
configuration switches is, I haven't been able to figure it out.
My intention is to run both monitors at native LCD resolution
(1680x1050).
Any help appreciated.
Jim
