Two XGA Display Cards in one System

Last reviewed: November 22, 1994
Article ID: Q71289

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a

SUMMARY

Two XGA Video Adapters can be used in one Micro Channel machine. However, the Microsoft Windows version 3.0 XGA driver that IBM supplies disables one of the cards.

MORE INFORMATION

To use two XGA cards, each must be connected to a different type of monitor (for example, a standard VGA monitor on one card and a super VGA monitor on the other). Windows uses the monitor that corresponds to the driver installed during setup. Your entire session, including Windows and MS-DOS applications that you run under Windows, are limited to that one monitor.

If you run applications under native MS-DOS, you can use either monitor, depending upon the MS-DOS application's resolution.

For more information, query on the following words:

   IBM  and XGA

KBCategory: kbhw kbdisplay kb3rdparty
KBSubcategory: win30
Additional reference words: 3.00 windrvr 3.00a

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Last reviewed: November 22, 1994
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