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Old July 8th 04, 10:52 PM
McGrandpa
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You need to open up your display properties (control panel for ATI) and
have a look at two things first: Display Properties/Settings page,
shows you have two displays, right? Next, click on Advanced, then the
Displays tab. Somewhere in there you uncheck the option for CLONE
desktop. Now you can open something and drag it over to the second
monitor.
You can also download and try out UltraMon, a utility to give you just
the kinds of things you're looking for with two displays.
McG.

Rik wrote:
Hello,

I recently bought a Sony Vaio RZ504 desktop computer that has the ATI
Radeon 9600XT graphics card. I have two flatpanel monitors and would
like to use the second one to extend my primary's monitor desktop
to(dual head). I now have one monitor attached with DVI cable, and
the other one with the VGA cable, but now I see my desktop on both
monitors. Before I bought my second flat panel I was told by many
people in forums and newsgroups that I simply could use a DVI-VGA
adapter to extend my desktop (dual head), so I went out to buy one
and it still didn't allow me to extend my desktop. I think the
adapter I bought was the wrong one (the DVI cable did fit, but it
looked like the adapter was the wrong one for my DVI-D cable). I went
back to the store and they told me that they didn't have another one
and that there are different types of DVI-D cables. They told me that
I should look more into the display properties but I see no option at
all to extend my desktop. Now I am wondering if is possible at all to
extend my desktop from one flatpanel to another, since it isn't
mentioned on the properties pages. It did say something about XP
having the option to extend the desktop, but I cannot find any
further info on that. Wilt my Matrox card this was so easy to do, but
with this card it seems impossible? If it is possible, what adapter
do I need exactly?

In this review (http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/9600xt/index5.php)
it says: 'There is a VGA (15 pin D-Sub), DVI and an S-Video (TV out).
You can easily run dual VGA monitors with this card, just by using a
DVD-VGA adapter.' Did they actually mean to type DVD-VGA adapter, or
did they mean to type DVI-VGA adapter? Should I be able to extend my
desktop with a DVD-VGA adapter?

Here (http://www.svc.com/ati-r9600xt-rbx.html) I read:

'Display Support
VGA connector for analog CRT
S-video connector for TV / VCR 1
DVI-I connector for digital flat panel 2
Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected
displays 1 Optional S-Video to Composite Adapter available separately
from ATI Online Store.
2 Optional DVI to VGA adapter allows connection to a second VGA
monitor. Available separately from your retailer or the ATI Online
Store.'

It doesn't say anything about two flat panel monitors. I'm not sure
what they mean with '2' in 'DVI-I connector for digital flat panel 2'.

If not, what are my other options? I don't see any use in connecting
two flat panel screens that display exactly the same desktop. Is
there ANY way to extend my desktop with two flat panel monitors? Or
would it be possible with a LCD television? Or would the television
also display the same desktop?

I'm very confused.. Hope someone can tell me more about this!

Cheers,

Rik.