Dual display with built-in mobo video
Kareem Shehata
kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 13 17:08:10 UTC 2007
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> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Lennart
> Sorensen
> Sent: Thursday 13 September 2007 10:52
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Dual display with built-in mobo video
>
> Which motherboard, and more importantly which chipset does it have
> onboard for video?
Mobo: Elitegroup P4M800PRO-M478
Chipset: VT8237 Southbridge, P4M800PRO(?) Northbridge
The manual describes the video as being integrated to the northbridge
"UniChrome Pro 3D/2D"
> On most boards the internal video is disabled automatically when an add
> in agp card is plugged in. Sometimes you can activate it again and use
> it as a second display but not always. The reason it often doesn't work
> is that the onboard video is AGP based, and you can't have more than one
> AGP device in a system. PCIe and PCI works differently.
Yea, I couldn't find an option in the BIOS other than "Primary Video". It
looks like that's pretty much what it's doing.
> I have a 21" Dell Trinetron with a slight focus problem in the top left
> corner I am not using anymore. It is going out as soon as I get around
> to it, unless someone happens to think they have a use for such a
> monster. I got a nice 24" LCD which takes up much less desk space and
> is in focus. Oh and I have a 21" NEC as well which sometimes looses the
> blue channel (power cycle always fixes it for a little while) which is
> also going out.
I remember being so excited when I saw this one at Factory Direct, and even
happier when I got it home and it actually worked well. It was my standby
for years, and made many of my college mates jealous.
Le sigh, how things change. Oh well. I guess this is a good change: the
old tubes consume a ton of energy too.
-kms
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