3 separate display help please??

[khalz1]

Hello all,

I need some help solution on this please asap. I need 3 separate displays from my PC. The monitors have only vga input.

I want to use the two ports on the pci card which are vga and dvi(using dvi-vga adapter) + ideally the onboard vga. i have tried this method but not working.


The PCI card is ATI RADEON 2400PRO PCI 256MB & motherboard is ASROCK G41M-GS3 running windows xp.

I have now added VTX Radeon hd5450 in the pci-e slot, i get 3 outputs on the monitors but as an extended desktop only.
i need to display 3 separate presentations on each tft using powerpoint.

Thankyou in advance.

[AndyG]

Do you have the AMD Catalyst Control Center installed? You should be able to ungroup them there.

You might be hitting the problem because you have a PCI 2400 though, not sure whether AMD drivers will support that. You might need to install a second 5450 in the PCIe x1 slot (though you'd need to hardware mod the slot to fit the card, just need to cut through the plastic at the back end of the slot).

[YoloSwag]

This is one I haven't heard in a long time. So you want to do 3 separate presentations on each display?

If that's the case, or something similar to that, I'd say it's probably impossible
The reason for this is because when you run 3 different presentations you'd have to control them separately.

When you run it in full screen, there's no way to select any other presentation to move to the next slide except for the last presentation you opened.
Running 3 different programs on separate monitors is more easy to do than this.

But you might be interested in something like stage production softwares, or other presentation softwares around the net.
These programs work by having 1 display where you can see what you could put into the other displays. It's something like what happens in productions like they open up a static image, then play a video seamlessly without the audience seeing things like a mouse pointer, controls and other stuff. It's sort of a control program.

You can use these programs to display different things on separate monitors without having to move your mouse from screen to screen.
I think Adobe has one of these included in their Creative Suite software. But if you're looking for something like this but a free one, you'd find software that churches use.

[OilSheikh]

So, you have
HD5450
HD2400
and 3 monitors ?

No external graphics card will work alongwith your onboard Intel graphics.
You need to use DVI-VGA adapters to get displays on your monitors.
Go to Catalyst and then do this



Also check in Windows' Display properties and see what's the layout of the monitor.
One big screen or 3 enabled screens ?