Dual monitor possible?

[Brian McKee]

On 05/10/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/10/2007, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think it is build in the motherboard, there is no card just a pink thing
> > (sorry don't know the name) plug into the motherboard
>
> Ah. Now, forgive me, but if you mentioned that before, I didn't notice
> it. Which is a shame, because I think it's an absolutely critical bit
> of information.
>
> In my experience, on a lot of machines, if you have what are called
> "integrated graphics" - that means, the graphic chip is built into the
> motherboard, not on a separate card - then there is circuitry in the
> motherboard logic which will automatically disable the onboard
> graphics when you insert a graphics card.

Darn it - I didn't see that either.  That would explain the
'automatic' change from one card to the other.

I agree - you aren't going to get them both to work at the same time.

On the other hand - isn't her new FX500 a better card than the on the
motherboard one?  It will use the 'real' nvidia drivers not legacy for
starters...  I'd be tempted to use it and ignore the built in one.

Brian