Dual Monitor Setup

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

I have 2 22" monitors that I am thinking about trying to run together. From what i read it says that it might be a necessity to have two VGA or DVI connectors on the computer itself. On my Dell Latitude E6400 there is only one VGA connection. Can i run a VGA splitter with this one connection and achieve what i am looking for? I would imagine that is what the splitter is for and because i have Vista it is possible to incorporate two monitors on the laptop.

I am thinking I can use the VGA splitter and in the Display Settings menu i simply "extend the desktop to this monitor" for both monitors and go from there. What i question is, using the splitter, will the computer still recognize the two separate monitors or do you have to have two connectors on the computer itself?

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[here to buy 10+ year member]

I'm not sure.

But I'm going to be doing the same dual display for crazy day trading a day or two a week. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I think everytime you connect any monitor to any jack, the computer sets the jack port for that ONE monitor, so I doubt it working. I believe they make a usb extender for that purpose, I've seen them for security monitors before.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

So what is the purpose of a VGA splitter?

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

To send the same signal to both monitors.

I hope I'm right otherwise, fail.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

Ok, thats kind of what i was thinking. Like i would have the same image displayed on both monitors rather than a shared image?

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

Yeah, I don't see how you could split and scale the images on the same regular vga cable.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

OK so i need to look for a Dual VGA connector to put in my desktop and run everything from that. That's a lot more work than i wanted haha.

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

Get a cheap video card with dual connectors.

It's probably very cheap.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

Pretty easy installation? My roommate has built a couple computers so he knows what he is doing, i am just curious. I cant imagine it would be too difficult.

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

take the existing one out, put one in

I thought i would be super hard to build a custom computer. Then like 3 years ago my neighbor and I pieced together two desktops and it was the easiest thing ever and took less than an hour to assemble and start installing windows.

 

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

Yeah the guts of my desktop look pretty simple IMO. Maybe not when it comes to building components of the computer, but buying and installing parts seems like it would be pretty simple.

 

[CrispedUp 10+ year member]

I have this...

http://trittonusa.com/index.php/products/usb_video_technology/see2-uv150/

 

[subzero 5,000+ posts]

??? What are you doing bud? You want to run two monitors? ok then get a dual monitor video card. Thiss allows you to have either two identical displays, or you can run a split screen. That usb thing is going to take the place of the video card or mirror the same image. And those adaptors you got there are fine to use. I have them on mine. I have two 22 LG widesreens. 9500video card.

 

[orangecounty1 10+ year member]

I have 2 22" monitors that I am thinking about trying to run together. From what i read it says that it might be a necessity to have two VGA or DVI connectors on the computer itself. On my Dell Latitude E6400 there is only one VGA connection. Can i run a VGA splitter with this one connection and achieve what i am looking for? I would imagine that is what the splitter is for and because i have Vista it is possible to incorporate two monitors on the laptop.
I am thinking I can use the VGA splitter and in the Display Settings menu i simply "extend the desktop to this monitor" for both monitors and go from there. What i question is, using the splitter, will the computer still recognize the two separate monitors or do you have to have two connectors on the computer itself?

should work

or get a docking station with 2 vga/dvi outputs.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Yep, need a dual head video card, otherwise both monitors will display the same thing. Sadly, most games do not work in dual display, only desktop and any windowed programs running on it. But its nice for data. Ive run a few of these setups in the past.