Just bought a Dell P3 800 with 128mb RDRAM and a GeForce 32mb video card. I want to be able to use two monitors and was wondering if anyone knew how I could setup the computer to handle dual monitors. I obviously need another video card, but do I have to buy the same one as what's already installed, and how does windows have to be setup to handle this? Thanks for any helpful replies.

it depend on the OS, but I have had no trouble running dual monitors here with win98 and win2k using a TNT and a voodoo... try this resourse to get some information on how others have the systoms configured. www.realtimesoft.com they have a very good mult monitor section Darrin

The solution I hear most about is to use a Maxtor G400 32MB Dual Head card. Be sure its a "DUAL HEAD" card. This one card has connectors for two monitors on it. The whole splitting of video is done primarily by the card. The one card solution by-passes conflict problems with two cards. As for using two cards of the same manufacture, I suggest scanning the manufacturer web site and contacting tech support. By the way, Maxtor card will be in excess of $150.00 US.

I use win98 with a Matrox dual vidoeo AGP 32 meg card and my two 19" monitors work great for poser and all my 3d apps Eagle4x4

P.S. Dell offers the card with thier systems.

win98 will by default accept 1-agp card+monitor and/or 1 pci card+monitor. Just hook them up and go to properties, you can position it over, under, to left, or to right of main monitor. Or as the gentlemen said above, use an agp card with dual outputs. Good Luck.

Thank you all for your great relies and I apologize for not thanking everyone earlier. I assumed I would be emailed when someone replied to my post and haven't checked this forum until now. Thanks darrin and I'm going to look up that website right after I leave here. Three immortal I wish I had known about Dell offering this option prior to my purchase as it would have been great to have them set the whole thing up. So instead I'll experiment on my own. Thanks

Hmm. With all the component (Athlon vs. Pentium, dual monitors, graphics accelleration, etc.) questions I've been seeing here, maybe we should pettition the Powers that Be for a Hardware forum... :-)