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Splitting screens with Win 98

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by meltvn 1 view

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Hi
I want to split a Windows 98 screen with two monitors.
The computer is a Pentium iii and has a RIVA TNT2 32mb AGP screen card installed. I know that I have to put in a second display card, and ordered another Riva TNT2 32mb PCI display card. MyQuestion is, does any one know if I could use a cheaper card like a sis 4mb, or do I have to stick to compatibility as I was told?
Has any one split an AGP and PCI screen cards on an Piii?

Thanks
Melt

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by computechie

You can use both AGP and PCI video cards to split the screen under Win98 as far as I know. On a machine at work, I split the screen on Win2000 with one video card that is built onto the motherboard, that uses the AGP bus, and a old ATI 4mb card on the PCI bus and it worked just fine. Hope this helps you out.

by survey says!!!

Believe it or not, i split a win98 screen with on 2 laptops that have huge docking stations with cd burners built in. In the first one, i used a Gemini PCI 16meg dual output video card. In the 2nd one I used an AGP and a PCI. Nothing special about them. You may actually have a problem installing 2 of the same cards. I have had that problem with nics and modems. 2 exact cards using othe same driver driver...I dont agree.

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