Hello again all,


I was wondering if anyone knew of a way for me to mirror my desktop onto another monitor that I have attached to a different graphics card.

My main graphics card is my on-board GeForce 6100 (512MB frame buffer)
My other graphics card is my PCI GeForce FX5500 (256MB frame buffer)

I'm running Windows XP Pro, although I do have open SuSE 10.2 on here as well.
AMD Athlon X2 64 5000+
2GB of DDR2 800(2x 1GB)


Let me know if you need to know anything else.

ArcIt should be as simple as just hooking up the 2nd monitor. Windows 'should' recognize that there is another one and let you select how you want to use it (mirroring or extending).

If not just let us know.I have my on-board enabled in the BIOS, and set as my main display in Windows, and I'm using it as my main display(It's more powerful than my FX5500)

However, in the Display -> Settings, it will only let me extend my desktop onto the other card, there isn't an option to mirror it.

In the nVidia control panel, it will only let me mirror my desktop to a monitor on the same card.
Then you have to ask...do you want an extended desktop or just mirrored? 'Cause by the sounds of it you can do EITHER, depending on how you hook up your monitors...I'd like to have it mirrored.

I've got my computer in between two monitors on a table that's in front of my wrap-around couch in my room.

I was hoping that I could mirror my desktop so you can see a movie or something, easily on both sides of the couch.

I would just PUT both monitors on my FX 5500, but I don't want to use that as my main GPU, seeing as my on-board owns it(sadly)

That and I don't have a DVI to VGA adapter anywhere around here, and I'm 7 miles from nowhere, so it's hard to go pick one up.

Every little bit helps!

ArcClearly, you really don't have a choice. If you want to mirror, you need to connect both monitors to the same card.

If you really don't a way to travel 7 miles to get an adapter, buy one online. I bought one from newegg.com.

And clearly, if you want to get out of your dilemma of the lower performance of the FX 5500 and still mirror two monitors, a better graphics card is the solution. If you go that route, the card may come with an adapter. I am aiming for a new card(...and a 1100W PSU, 4 more GB of RAM, couple 500GB SATAII HDDS...)

But right now I think I have about 34 pennies, and a couple of them are Canadian

>.>

Eh, thanks for your time anyway.Do you have a piggy bank big enough for all that? I been lookin at one o' these as well...

Well, I'm getting a job at Carl's Computer Repair in Newport, for about 25~30 an hour, and the parts(2 320GB drives instead of 500GB drives) are about $845 from Newegg.


I should be ABLE to afford all of it pretty quickly, seeing how busy that shop is.

Actually, it's really, really busy right now, after the lightning storms around here.
I think that only one of the twenty or so computers that had their PSU and/or motherboard burnt last week, wasn't an eMachines.

lol, u mean GATEWAY. A one Month bump ? ?