Third-Party Solutions to Multiple Monitor Support for Windows
Article ID: 162928
Article Last Modified on 2/27/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
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SUMMARY
Third-party companies, such as Color Graphics, MATROX, STB, INTERGRAPH,
ALTEX Electronics, and other companies provide solutions to multiple
monitor support for Windows.
MORE INFORMATION
Color Graphics has a full line that support anywhere from two to eight
monitors. The Color Graphics cards are based on the S3 chip set.
MATROX Millennium video cards in the same computer support multiple
monitors.
STB Inc. provides the MVP-2X dual SVGA video card (ISA) with Microsoft
Windows NT drivers supplied by STB. The card comes with MS-DOS, Windows
3.1, and OS/2 drivers. In addition, STB provides model MVP2X/MC for Micro
Channel.
Other manufacturers that provide the capability of multiple screens are
ALTEX Electronics and INTERGRAPH. These manufacturers make video cards with
multiple VGA chips on them that drive several monitors in a video wall
arrangement spread across 2, 4, 8, or 16 screens.
Windows 2000 also includes built-in Multiple Monitor Support.
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