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gamenutt
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I have a geforce 4 mx440 and was wondering how to use dual crts. Do I have to buy a vga splitter if so anyone know of any cheap ones.
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caLLous
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I dunno what it's like with the mx440, but I have the Ti4600 and it came with an adapter thingy for the card which let you plug a second monitor into the tv-out...
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well more likely the adapter allows you to plau the second VGA monitor into the DVI out 
Gamenutt, does your GF 4 have 2 outputs? Or 3 if you count the TV out?
If so then just plug a second monitor into the second out. Some cards simply have 2 VGA outs which is no problem, if the other output is a DVI one then you need one of these.
I have Win XP pro and run a 2 monitor setup with few problems, just a couple of niggles really.
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Gamenutt, does your GF 4 have 2 outputs? Or 3 if you count the TV out?
If so then just plug a second monitor into the second out. Some cards simply have 2 VGA outs which is no problem, if the other output is a DVI one then you need one of these.
I have Win XP pro and run a 2 monitor setup with few problems, just a couple of niggles really.
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just 2 outputs
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what do they look like? Blue, White or small round and black.
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gamenutt
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I have one vga out and one tv/s video out. The monitor right now is plugged into the vga out and I need something to allow me to plug a nother crt monitor into the tv/s video out.
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hmmm thats to much...u sure there is no cheaper solution. NO ONE ELSE HAS A CARD WHERE THEY USE THE TV/OUT FOR DUAL MONITOR????
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As I said, and I'd be very happy to be proved wrong, I think it is very unlikely that you would be able to set up a true dual monitor system using a tv out. I think at best you would simply have 2 monitors showing the same thing, but even then, reading about these s-video > VGA converters, they can only bump normal TV resolutions up to 800x600.
I think your only options would be to upgrade your graphics card to one with 2 monitor outputs, which you could do like this.
Your other option would be to invest in a PCI graphics card and run it alongside your existing AGP one. Obviously the graphical capability of your second monitor would depend on the type of card you got, and they would both need to use the same drivers (I think) so both be nVidia. A friend of mine runs a 3 monitor system with a 21" monitor and a 15" monitor running off a GF4 4600, and a second 15" monitor running off a PCI graphics card.
The only problem he had when setting this up was that he discovered that he had to boot his PCI card first. There is an option to do this in bios, at least there is in mine.
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I think your only options would be to upgrade your graphics card to one with 2 monitor outputs, which you could do like this.
Your other option would be to invest in a PCI graphics card and run it alongside your existing AGP one. Obviously the graphical capability of your second monitor would depend on the type of card you got, and they would both need to use the same drivers (I think) so both be nVidia. A friend of mine runs a 3 monitor system with a 21" monitor and a 15" monitor running off a GF4 4600, and a second 15" monitor running off a PCI graphics card.
The only problem he had when setting this up was that he discovered that he had to boot his PCI card first. There is an option to do this in bios, at least there is in mine.
Hope this helps
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gamenutt
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Well see I dont see why you would have 2 monitors showing the same thing. The card has integrated dual 350 MHz DACs and has the nview display technology just like the other dual monitor nvidia cards. But I might upgrade mine even though I just bought this one is it supposed to have a fan. Anyone know if pny verto geforce 4 MX 440 is supposed to have a fan. Because on the back of the box it shows a card pointing out different things. And it has a fan and says integrated heatsink and fan. But I got mine with just the heatsink. But I dont read anything on pny site or in documentation about it.