dual monitor help

hey all.

i was experimenting with using two monitors at once on windows xp, but can't quite get it to work. i have a geforce 6100 card already on the motherboard and installed a geforce mx4000 pci card. however, this just resulted in the mx4000 being the primary monitor. the onboard card isn't shown in the device manager... i read in the windows help index that in order to also use the integrated video card, a have to set it as vga. is this really the problem? if so, how do i set it as vga? thanks in advance.

 

Usually onboard video disables itself when a new add in card is installed.

What you want to do is hook up one monitor to the VGA and the other to the DVI of the mx4000.

 

hmmm... my mx4000 doesn't have dvi. the two video cards use vga. can i still use two monitors?

 

Nope either add another video card OR return the one you have and add 1 card that supports dual monitors (best option)

 

icic... thnx for the tip.