Heyas everyone... I recently bought a GForce 4 MX 440, and was reading about the dual view(span/clone)on win 98 and xp... The thing is that I don't know how to hook up the two monitors(Samsun Syncmanster 450Nb both)... What do I need(a cable, another adapter)? Help a poor little newbie... Ascii

You need either two video cards (one AGP, one PCI) or a card with dual outputs (DVI/VGA or VGA/VGA). Otherwise it won't be possible. If memory serves, the Geforce MX cards do not have multiple outputs. You need an AGP TI card (TI 4200, 4600) or an additional card in PCI (I have a Geforce4 TI 4600 AGP and Geforce4 MX 420 PCI). You will need to install the NVidia drivers again and both video cards (and attached monitors) should be seen in the Display Properties->Settings. You have to enable nView and go through the wizard for it before it works. Go to NVidia's site to get a PDF that explains the setup procedure and settings in detail. BYS

So, does that mean that the svideo output can't be adapted to vga... Do I need 2 accelerated graphic cards or can I just put a pci video card and leave de gforce 4 as the main card?

If you can find an adapter from SVideo to VGA, it should work, but not certain if the SVideo outs on the GeForce MX cards are passthrough or separable signals. Check the information and specification for the Geforce4 MX 440 to see if it's possible. If it says it can handle a monitor on VGA and another on SVideo for dual-view, then go for it (this may also be enumerated in the nView PDF - I'll check it shortly). Nope, you can have one AGP card and another PCI card with different monitors hooked up and nView will let you clone and extend between them. You can mix cards sometimes (nVidia, ATI, Matrox), but it can get tricky. The recommendation is to use two cards with the same chipset (GeForce4 and GeForce4). The other recommendation is that the PCI card be in the first PCI slot after the AGP card. BYS

According to the "NVidiaDisplayPropsGuide.pdf", it appears that you should be able to at least get an analog TV monitor onto the SVideo out and use that as an extended display. The limitations are 800x600@60Hz for resolution to that display. I think that if the card is recent enough ;), you should exchange it up for an nVidia card with dual outputs (DVI and VGA). All cards that come with a DVI port also include a DVI->VGA converter that hooks onto the DVI port, so you can use two VGA monitors. The only reason that I'm using two video cards instead of just the AGP Ti4600 (which has DVI & VGA outs) is to allow the nVidia Stereo3D (stereoscopics) drivers to work on both monitors simultaneously. BYS

Thaks for the info... Ascii