want 2 independent monitors

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My dell has a PEG slot for a graphics card and an integrated Intel (I think)
video adaptor. The BIOS will disable the integrated graphics when it
detects a PEG adapter. The GeForce card I have installed has the ability to
drive two monitors and span the desktop, but this isn't what I want. I want
the setup where windows actually sees two monitors. The "desktop spanning"
from nView (NVidias driver) tries to span maximized applications across both
monitors and I want each window to maximize to the monitor it belongs to.
For example, by outlook maximized on the right and my Visual Studio on the
left.

I don't know much about hardware but suspect to have this behavior I need to
have two graphics cards, is this true?

Another question: When someone says "Dual head hard" - does that mean the
card will appear in windows display properties as 2 adapters?

One monitor can run @ 1600 and the other 1200 so I also need to mix and
match my resolutions. I don't play games or do anything in 3D.

Thanks for any clarification or help you might be able to offer.

-Steve
 
sklett wrote:
> My dell has a PEG slot for a graphics card and an integrated Intel (I think)
> video adaptor. The BIOS will disable the integrated graphics when it
> detects a PEG adapter. The GeForce card I have installed has the ability to
> drive two monitors and span the desktop, but this isn't what I want. I want
> the setup where windows actually sees two monitors. The "desktop spanning"
> from nView (NVidias driver) tries to span maximized applications across both
> monitors and I want each window to maximize to the monitor it belongs to.
> For example, by outlook maximized on the right and my Visual Studio on the
> left.
>
> I don't know much about hardware but suspect to have this behavior I need to
> have two graphics cards, is this true?
>
> Another question: When someone says "Dual head hard" - does that mean the
> card will appear in windows display properties as 2 adapters?
>
> One monitor can run @ 1600 and the other 1200 so I also need to mix and
> match my resolutions. I don't play games or do anything in 3D.
>
> Thanks for any clarification or help you might be able to offer.
>
> -Steve
>

Check out an Nvidia manual. They are in the download directories,
but only for selected releases.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/91.33

For example, try page 84 of this one:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/91.33/91.33_ForceWare_nView_User_Guide.pdf

Options are:

Single - one monitor only
DualView - possibly what you want - Taskbar is only in one screen
Span - creates one virtual display spanning two monitors
Clone - both displays show same info

HTH,
Paul
 
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message news:fga6h8$icp$1@aioe.org...
> sklett wrote:
>> My dell has a PEG slot for a graphics card and an integrated Intel (I
>> think) video adaptor. The BIOS will disable the integrated graphics when
>> it detects a PEG adapter. The GeForce card I have installed has the
>> ability to drive two monitors and span the desktop, but this isn't what I
>> want. I want the setup where windows actually sees two monitors. The
>> "desktop spanning" from nView (NVidias driver) tries to span maximized
>> applications across both monitors and I want each window to maximize to
>> the monitor it belongs to. For example, by outlook maximized on the right
>> and my Visual Studio on the left.
>>
>> I don't know much about hardware but suspect to have this behavior I need
>> to have two graphics cards, is this true?
>>
>> Another question: When someone says "Dual head hard" - does that mean
>> the card will appear in windows display properties as 2 adapters?
>>
>> One monitor can run @ 1600 and the other 1200 so I also need to mix and
>> match my resolutions. I don't play games or do anything in 3D.
>>
>> Thanks for any clarification or help you might be able to offer.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Check out an Nvidia manual. They are in the download directories,
> but only for selected releases.
>
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/91.33
>
> For example, try page 84 of this one:
>
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/91.33/91.33_ForceWare_nView_User_Guide.pdf
>
> Options are:
>
> Single - one monitor only
> DualView - possibly what you want - Taskbar is only in one screen
> Span - creates one virtual display spanning two monitors
> Clone - both displays show same info
>
> HTH,
> Paul
>
Thanks for the reply. I had noticed those sections in the manual but didn't
have the DualView option until I rebooted. It actually gives me exactly the
behavior that I want.

Thanks again,
Steve
 
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