ok, some know the huge nerdage that i have at work. some don’t.
but anyways…
work wont buy me a 32" cinema display which is ridiculous, but whatever…
i have 4 lcd’s.
i want to make them all work together.
i have to buy more video cards, i know this, but i want it to be manageable. plus ill need a kvm because i have multipal boxes that will be using these monitors.
this is the set up that im working with:
on the bottom left i want the task bar
and on the rest i want a huge desktop.
I know it can be done, but i just want to be sure how to do it…
i don’t really have time to do research, so if anyone has any input on this i would appreciate it…
get two dual display cards, and make sure that they have the capability to span desktops (create one solid monitor, instead of extending the desktop) I know the card i just picked up at work can do it, and its pci, which you will need to run two of them, since i dunno of many boards with two agp slots.
its a geforce fx5500 (pny)
its cheap as shit but for multi displays it works really well.
you will probably need some sort of desktop management software aswell. The nVidia software doesnt work all that well IMO.
I’m running 2 monitors at the moment and tried expanding it to one large desktop (so the start bar goes along the bottom of both screens) opposed to 2 seperate desktops but it didnt like that for some reason.
try a program called ultramon or another good one is multimon taskbar
edit.
you might only need one dual display vid card actually.
I’m currently running monitor 1 from the primary port on my GeForce card, and the second one from the S-Vid port. So if you have on board video you could probably use that along with the primary/secondary and s-video connections from your dual display card. Havent done it myself, but it seems like it should work ok.
