Al, I have tried running two screens from my laptop - A Dell Inspiron 3800 (old!) - could get two different screens but the second (running D4F) became miscoloured but still usable. Not sure what the graphics card is. Will check and see.

SC, miss colour is often a bad connection or having only low colour resolution which is probably what you were getting, there is a trade off between the number of pixels that can be driven and the number of colours available, as you drive more pixels you can have less colours . There is no reason why a laptop cant drive more than one screen its just that I havnt seen it, the total resolution that Al needs would be high so the graphics 'card' (probably on board and not a card) will need to be powereful. Its a while since I was up to date with laptops.

Al I probably havnt helped you with this or 1252 above, probably best you just ignore me ;-)

Spaceman / SC - cheers. Card is seperate. Laptop is 2 years old and was one of the first with P4 and seperate card back then. Don't need a new one as it does very well.

I have been running a 17" CRT as a seperate screen for some time - XP allows you to do this - from the laptop. I've had 1280x1024 no trouble. I've been thinking about upgrading to a 20" TFT at 1600x1200 and wasn't sure if the 16mB would be enough. The 14" laptop TFT only has max 1024x768 which is fine for what I use it for daily.

The upshot is that if I can't run the 20" at that high resolution, then I'd just go for a 18" or 19" and run it at 1280x1024 and save myself 200 or something.

Al. is the laptop in a docking station or similar then?

Spaceman - no. It has a graphics port, as most do, but you can plug a monitor into it and set the thing up as 2 screens.

evening all:-)

have a computer which i have a matrox dual output video card fitted and bought another video card today a pci one,how do i configure the new one please so that i can run a 3 monitor setup.

OS Win2000Pro and 512mb memory athlon 2500 chip....

TIA :-)

Mega...

Mega,
You normally cant I am sorry to say :-(
On some occasions you can but normally the video memory range conflicts.
D.

Mega Bucks

I have run a second video card alongside my matrox with no problems.

The only way to find out is to try it.

My experience with XP is that it is best to update your system with the latest service packs and other updates before you add hardware. This way XP seems to cope better.

Optimist,

Your a star will try it out over the next couple of days and will come back with a update...

I take it you have to install the driver that comes with the new card as well??

Many thanks....

Mega...

Mega Bucks

It depends on the card. With any luck windows will recognise the card and install it's own or a deffault driver. Best to have the card drivers handy though.

Worst case is that there is a conflict and you get no output from either card in which case you will have to forget it.

Make sure that you set a system restore point before you start.

Does anybody have any links to an auto refresh program?

"RefreshIE" is apparently discontinued.

Thanks in advance

Abbey

Try this one

Ta DocProc

Doc I had one that went on your Toolbar with optional Refresh Times.Cant remember Name.Any ideas?

Iain

Have a browse through this lot. :-)

Best take care with using Alexa though. :-(

Not amongst them Pity.It was quite handy.

This site has been very usefull for WIN XP
http://www.tipsdr.com/windows-xp-tips-4.html

Trying to Re-install My Fathers Win XP Home.Trouble is Ive now found out he has lost the booklet with the Product Number on it!
I have the disk,of course.Would i be able to find it on one of the files?
Help Needed.Hes 74 Im at my wits end!:-))))))))))
already formatted drive.

ttt

Iain

I think you will have a problem. If you can get the old system working it might be worth giving Microsoft a ring.

Are you sure that the product label has not been stuck somewhere on the computer?

Iain

I have labels on both computers with what I believe is the number you need. Check around the outer case.

Hope I'm right. Good luck!