Dual monitors with two video cards?

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HP Pavillion a527x
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
2.10 GHz
512 RAM

ATI Radeon 9600 Rosewill 128MB PCI Graphics card
and an integrated graphics card, I believe it is a VIA/S3G Unichrome.

I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to hook up two monitors to work on this set up.

If anyone could provide some insight as to how I would go about this for as cheap as possible (maybe some sort of adapter that's only a few bucks?) without buying a new card. If it's not possible, then oh well.

Thanks

John
 
depending on the motherboard I doubt you'll be able to run a pci graphics card and the graphics on the system board at the same time.

I use an AGP Matrox G450 32Meg dual output card, picked it up on ebay for way cheap and it works like a dream.
 
On my system you can run the integrated and a PCI at the same time, but not the integrated and an AGP at the same time.

Have you checked the BIOS to make sure that the integrated card has not been disabled ?
 
On the setup I have at home I have an old vga card plugged into a pci slot waiting on my matrox to come through the mail but it works the same way as a dual vga card.
 
Doesn't the Radeon have two outputs? I've got a 9600XT and it has an analog D-SUB and a DVI output. If your card also has these you could get an adapter for the DVI-out so you can plug a CRT into it.
 
LaXu said:
Doesn't the Radeon have two outputs? I've got a 9600XT and it has an analog D-SUB and a DVI output. If your card also has these you could get an adapter for the DVI-out so you can plug a CRT into it.
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my thoughts exactly
 
i found a DVi to VGA adapter at comp usa for $30!!

theni went online and bought one for $5 with free shipping.ha

thanks guys
 
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