Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for posting this...useful experience. 
Steadman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Editor P.O.V. Image Service 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:10 PM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Dual Monitors under Win 2k and XP..


  This was a discussion back a bit and I would like to offer some 
  experience I have garnered in setting up a new system...

  I was using Win2k and XP (dual boot) and decided to go with an ATI  
  RADEON 8500DV AGP card as the primary card..

  The system has 2gB of RAM and dual PIIIe 1000mHz CPU's


  It installed without a problem under both OS's..

  I first tried a RADEON 7000 PCI card as the second video card... (keep 
  in mind the 8500DV will already drive an HDTV as a second display).... 
  No luck with that card under Win 2k or XP..  Eventually ATI tech 
  support informed me it was a driver issue they were already aware of..

  I then decided to go with a Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4 MX420 PCI card as 
  the second card.. With a different GPU, I was certain drivers would not 
  be the problem...

  Well, under Win2k, that wouldn't work either..  It became a problem of 
  the PCI card wanting the IRQ (11) that the AGP card gets as a default 
  assignment.. No way to alter either under Win2k...

  However, under XP the drivers and cards loaded beautifully, except for 
  the bizarre quirk that the PCI card's attached monitor needs to have 
  "cloning" to a second TV screen turned on to actually get the regular 
  monitor to turn on..

  With these cards, I can even watch cable TV on my system while doing 
  Pshop work and send the palettes, etc. to the second monitor..  The ONLY 
  app that I cannot send the main program area to the second screen from 
  is actually the TV tuner display component from the 8500 DV.. 
  Essentially, my "picture in a picture" TV  has to stay on the main 
  screen.. I can make it translucent though...

  All in all I have to say, I like the new cards and both have a plethora 
  of color control options built into the drivers..  This will be a plus 
  when I re-calibrate the new main monitor with Optical, as Optical will 
  only work with the main monitor.. So, I'll have to tune the second 
  monitor to match the first as much as possible..



  [Keith]

    



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