Saturday, May 2, 2009

Procedures to Setup Dual Monitors

Dual monitor setups are lucrative means to expand your desktop graphics without a purchase of expensivem large monitor. It’s quite easy to utilize and economical in use and equally requires little and simple preparation before use. Conversely, as computers are getting cheaper, monitors are equally getting cheaper. Morever, to have a good setup working dual monitor requires certain specific knowledge to acquire. Of course, you can set it up yourself, if you could simply follow these steps below.

Two steps to setup your dual monitors are as follows:

Get a Graphic Card (video card) for Hardware Installation
Turn off your PC and slot the video card in the peripheral connection Inter-phase (PCI) inside your computer motherboard inside your system, there must be a free expansion slot(PCI) ensure it’s firmly attached in the peripheral slot connection, screw it in computer casing. You should equally know you need a video card for each monitor that you plan to run under Windows such as AGP card with 10 to 24MB. This implies that your system must have a free expansion slot for each one. And you may also find that you have problems with IRQ sharing or DMA channels depending on your motherboard and video card although many video cards seem comparatively intolerant of IRQ and DMA interference. Your video card should be installed in the correct slot and then connect the monitor, then close your computer.

Install your New Graphic Card in your PC
Next step, after hardware installation, software installation follows. In this juncture, turn on your system and enter BIOS, for you to enter BIOS, you must press “Dell/F2”. In the BIOS (Basic Input Output Operating System) mode, go to “peripheral devices and enable second onboard video device. Note the onboard video device is an inbuilt graphic image display in your system board. You simply do a little configuration by enabled onboard graphics as a primary video graphic, then configure your new graphic card as secondly devices. Save and exist.

After rebooting, login to your computer and do the rest of the configurations. You need to insert your video card driver for your second monitor image efficiency. Then, on your windows desktop, right-click and select property, in the open window, click on “setting”, then go to the color quality, there you see varieties of monitor screen resolution qualities. Simply select your desired quality and start to enjoying dual monitor service.

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