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At 03:08 PM 4/17/2000 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>I'm having a heck of a time getting the
multiple display stuff to work on<br>
Win2K. When I boot up, the task bar is on one screen, the desktop
icons on<br>
another & then things usually freeze. Turns out you really have
to have<br>
monitors attached to each card when you boot up. Is this normal
behavior?<br>
Isn't there supposed to be some sort of control to choose when/how to use
the<br>
multiple displays? Any advice for me?</blockquote><br>
<br>
Yup. (cc'd to ag-tech since this may be a faq)<br>
<br>
There are two things to remember here. If you have an AGP card in, this
will likely be where the initial bootup messages go. At some point in the
boot (when win2k switches to the graphical boot screen), the display goes
to the "Primary monitor". This is the display that the login
window gets put onto.<br>
<br>
I typically configure my multimonitor systems to have a CRT/LCD monitor
set as the primary monitor. The AGP display (or dipslays for a g400) is
placed on the projector where I'm going to put most of the video, since
with the direct draw vic the performance is best there. <br>
<br>
This means that the bootup messages will show up on one of the
projectors, so if you want to see 'em you'll need the projector on. I
don't reboot much lately :-) so that's not a problem. As soon as the
machine is up enough the monitor will come to life, and you can log in
there.<br>
<br>
One thing I've found is that setting a different monitor to be the
primary doesn't necessarily move the taskbar there. You can just drag it
over to where you want it with the mouse.<br>
<br>
If you have more display adapters than displays & monitors, uncheck
the "extend my windows desktop onto this monitor" box for that
adapter.<br>
<br>
hope this helps,<br>
--bob<br>
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