Dual Head Not working?

[Maniac]

I'm trying to get my TV going as the second display. Did everything right(i think), but so far it's still blank. Any common problems I should know about? Thx...

[nicnet]

I'm having similar problems.
Only got the card (G400 DH 32) a couple of days ago - put it in a 450 Pentium 3 Supermicro mb.

When connecting a second monitor, the second monitor occasionaly flashes when changing advanced options, but no picture.

When connecting TV, no picture except when adjusting the picture settings, like colour/ black and white/ contrast - Then I get a coloured test card up. But, when out of those options, no picture.

Can anybody help us here??


Ta

Nic

[JamesA]

Hi,

Could you provide more details, please?

Which particular DualHead feature did you use? Clone? DVDMax? Zoom?

Which version of PowerDesk do you have?

I have the MAX and all except DVDMax did not work for me. Of course, I connected a GateWay2000 1776LE to the second connector. Not a TV. Seems like, according to StevieC, with the TV, DVDMax works.

JamesA.


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[JamesA]

Maniac,

I think I need to do a remedial course in English.

I meant to say that every DualHead feature worked for me, except DVD Max which I have not tested with a TV. I only have a spare 17" monitor. No spare TV around.

JamesA.

[Maniac]

Well lets see, I tried multi-display and clone modes but still no dice. It detects the tv as unknown monitor I put it on video input and nothing happens?? Strange...

[agallag]

I thought I was having a problem with my second display, but then I realized that I had plugged the S-Video cable into the wrong input on my receiver. There's about 7 S-Video inputs back there, and I didn't have a flashlight . Once I got it plugged into the right place, it worked like a charm. I don't like having to reboot to turn it on and off though. I guess that's a microsoft problem...

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Asus P2B-S, PII-350, 64MB PC100, 12.7GB Quantum Fireball EX ATA-33, 2x2.1GB Quantum Atlas I UWSCSI, Toshiba 6201 SCSI CD, Yamaha CRW4416S SCSI CD-RW, WangDAT SCSI, MillG400 32MB DH, SBLive! Retail (Plugged into a JVC RX884V Dolby Digital Receiver@500W), ProScan 27" NTSC TV (second head), Win98SE

[Maniac]

Problem solved, bought a new rca cable

[Maniac]

uh oh now I can't play Q3 with DH enabled. it says can't load OpenGl subsystem??

[Kruzin]

Nope.
No OGL games in Multi-Monitor mode.

[Maniac]

DualHead is useless, all I wanted was tv-out so that I could watch DVD's, on my TV and my old mystique G200 had that...

[Kruzin]

Dualhead is hardly useless.
I usually have it hooked up to my TV for the same thing...DVD. But this last few days, I've had my kids 17" hooked up to it, and I have found it very useful.

While surfing the net, it gives all that extra desktop space for my mail program and additional browsers windows.

While working with ACAD, I am able to keep my text window on one monitor, and my drawing editor on the other.

So, you may not currently have a use for it, but that hardly makes it useless

[Vandal]

Hey guys.. I've had my G400 MAX for a while now.. a couple weeks and only now did I find my old 14" in the closet.
So I hooked it up to try DualHead. I run both Windows98 and WinNT 4.0 sp5 on my computer, I have a dual-boot system.
I tried it first with Win98 (everything alwasy works better here) I set it up for Multi-Display first. Restarted, and it worked.. found my new monitor and started working fine. I moved over some windows and I was happy.
Next, I try the Clone-DVDMAX-Zoom feature... the clone works fine (I'm using it as I right this), I can't try the DVDMAX (don't have a DVD) and the Zoom, that doesn't work. I set up a hotkey for Ctrl-Z to enable and Ctrl-A to disable the Zoom. When I hit Ctrl-Z and little cursor with a box under it appears and my 2nd monitor goes black. I trace the spot I want zoomed, and let go. My 2nd monitor flashs and goes back to the black. If I diable by hitting Ctrl-A, it just goes back to normal Clone. I don't know why it's not working.

My 1st monitor is a 15" KDS and my 2nd monitor is a 14" Darius. The 2nd monitor is REALLY old! I want to buy a new 19" or 21" but I need the money first.

If anyone can help, please do.
Here's my system:
FIC VA-503+ Motherboard
AMD K6-III 400
Matrox Millenium G400 MAX

[Vandal]

Oh, and about WinNT.. HA!
It works... but there are like no options at all. And I can't even get it to work well because my 2nd monitor sux so bad!
All you can do is share your monitor with 2 monitors.
Thanx.

[Zwisch]

Vandal,

Remember that NT does not support itself Dual Monitor such as Windows 98.... matrox are tricking Dual monitor with their drivers, hence why you only get a virtual desktop... You can also only do dual monitor in NT with 2 matrox cards.... again because of the divers... we can't blame Matrox for everything you know...

Ciao

Z

[Zwisch]

Maniac,

If you only wanted to play OGL games when also looking at the TV, then simply use Clone mode rather than Multi Display.

Ciao

Z