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Of course none of this is relevant re:TS4, since it is my understanding that
TS4 does not support Win98 multi-monitors.
In a message dated 7/11/99 1:35:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
warlord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Well, 3 only, not 4. But putting another should not cause a problem.
> This is how I handle the apps. Start them up windowed in the main.
> Move them to the screens you want them to be. Maximise them.
> Dialog boxes tends to appear on the main display. I got no problems with
> that.
>
> My reply to sk and issues that I am aware of.
>
> Done it for 3. 1 AGP, 2 PCI.
> Voodoo 3 is a AGP 3DFX card. Its handy if you decide to play a game and
the
> 2D
> graphics capabiltity is superb with the Ramdac at 350mhz. Most of the cards
> out there
> go at 200-250mhz.
> Make sure your BIOS is capable of setting itself to initialise the AGP
> slots first rather
> than the PCI slots. The first card that is initialises becomes the main
> display.
> S3s are the only cheap PCI 4MB cards I can find nowadays. Else it be an ATI
> which
> which cost 2/3 of a Voodoo and does not make sense. Pay a little more and I
> get a
> 16 MB TNT2.
>
> Question is how many slots do you have left after using 4?
> If you got 4 PCI slots, the last one is for network card. If you got 5, you
> should be ok.
> Not sure what you gonna do for the sound card. Don't put anything on the
> ISA slots.
> IRQ routing don't work on them and the resources they use could cause a
> conflict.
>
> At 06:41 PM 1999-07-09 -0700, Doug Forman wrote:
> >Are you actually using this? Does it really work? Are you able to use a
> >virtual desktop to display different programs on different screens? How
do
> >you control what appears in each screen?
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Andrew [mailto:warlord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:45 PM
> >> To: sk; Omega-List Forum
> >> Subject: Re: MULTIPLE MONITORS
> >>
> >>
> >> Put a Voodoo 3 on the AGP, and get 3 cheap S3 Trios. Let the IRQ routing
> >> handle
> >> resources.
> >>
> >> At 09:10 PM 1999-07-08 -0500, sk wrote:
> >> >Best way to attach four monitors to a Win98 system running TradeStation
> >> 4.0 ??
> >> >I know Appian makes a two monitor card (and a jumbo), but I am
> >> looking for
> >> four,
> >> >and something reasonable.
> >> >
> >> >Is looking for something reasonablly priced unreasonable when it comes
> to
> >> such
> >> >exotic video cards?
> >> >
> >> >HELP!!!!
> >> >
> >> >:)
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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