----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Fiskeaux II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On PC's with multiple video card setups, your primary monitor is
determined
> by the position of your video cards.  If you have an AGP card, it defaults
> to your primary monitor.

Actually, this is not strictly speaking so. You are correct about BIOS's
that let you select the order, but I was still a PC engineer when AGP first
came out, and in fact the AGP slot is always the *secondary* monitor, by
default. However, most modern BIOS's are able to reverse this order, with
some of the newer ones being set like that at a non-user level. Seems odd,
but believe me, it's true, and it really used to piss people off that were
setting up dual monitor configs with 1 PCI + 1 AGP card, because the slow
PCI card was always the primary. I don't know what stupid engineer thought
it was a good design in the first place, although there is probably an
architectural reason for it.

- Robert

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