[UK-CONTEST] dual monitor?

[G3RIR]

I found that my entry-level laptop doesn't even need an extra card. I plug
in an external monitor into the laptop and then tell XP I need dual monitor
and everything works fine with some N1MM windows on the laptop screen and
others on the external monitor.

Incidentally I bought the laptop two years ago and price wasn't the issue
but the fact that it had real serial and parallel ports as well as USB was
the "clincher". I have always found that a parallel port for the key is
better than serial or USB and I have yet to move to one of the fancy
off-board keyers.

Neil, G3RIR

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Bunting
Sent: 03 March 2007 23:01
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] dual monitor?

Hi Folks,

I am thinking about using dual monitors on my contest PC to give extra 
screen real estate for N1MM. Does anyone think it is worth the effort?

 From reading around, it seems that you don't need a dual head card and 
that XP will do this with an extra PCI graphics card installed. I have a 
spare monitor and graphics card, so I had a go at getting this to work, 
but it seems that any old PCI card is not enough. Does anyone have any 
ideas what the "entry level" graphics card is for the dual monitor 
system? It seems the gamers pay a fortune for graphics cards but clearly 
the performance would be wasted on a contest PC and I am not prepared to 
pay that anyway. What should I be looking for?

As this is more of a PC question than a contest one, I should perhaps 
invite replies off list.
73
Steve
M0BPQ
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