driving a third monitor

[tony.silveira]

hey guys,

i'm wondering if onboard video can be used along with a video card?

i have a radeon 4850HD wich drives my arcade monitor (vga) and also mirrors the display to my projector (hdmi).  the card also has a dvi port but i don't think i can drive a third monitor with this card.

i have a 9" flip down lcd under my marquee that i would like to display game controls on and was thinking of using onboard graphics to druive but not sure i can do so.  any suggestions on how to drive that third display?  a second cheapy pci graphics card?  i wa thinking maybe a usb graphics card (i'm using one on my mac mini and it seems fine).

any thoughts?  thanks

[DaOld Man]

Not really any suggestions, except try it, see  if it will work. And please post your results here, someone else may want to do it.

[tony.silveira]

no doubt.  starting my new panel next week.  month or so after that, hopefully i'll start the full cab.  i'll be making a log along the way

[-rich-]

hey guys,

i'm wondering if onboard video can be used along with a video card?

i have a radeon 4850HD wich drives my arcade monitor (vga) and also mirrors the display to my projector (hdmi).  the card also has a dvi port but i don't think i can drive a third monitor with this card.

It depends on the motherboard but more often than not if a video card is plugged in then the onboard gets disabled. USB will work, another video card will work too most likely - what is the make/model of the motherboard?

rich

[CoryBee]

hey guys,

i'm wondering if onboard video can be used along with a video card?

i have a radeon 4850HD wich drives my arcade monitor (vga) and also mirrors the display to my projector (hdmi).  the card also has a dvi port but i don't think i can drive a third monitor with this card.

It depends on the motherboard but more often than not if a video card is plugged in then the onboard gets disabled. USB will work, another video card will work too most likely - what is the make/model of the motherboard?

rich

I find this is true on newer motherboards too. I got around it when I had a dual screen setup with a third monitor as a touch screen controller. All I had to do was set onboard as the primary in BIOS settings, Windows still found the external video card and I could port to all three screens.