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Originally posted by lou_habs
well it seems like it doesnt detect my mother board's video slot 
You need to enable it again (before installing drivers).
Either in your BIOS or either even by setting a specific jumper on your motherboard (which is of course seriously depening on what type of mobo you have).
It even can be that you need to configure the drivers for the already existing graphics cards so they don't turn off the mobo graphics cards. Or, set a jumper on your graphics card. Again, all depends on what hardware and software you got.
The main thing is, you first need to enable the integrated graphics on your mobo (and of course first check if your mobo supports using the integrated graphics and an external graphics card simultaniously)
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Originally posted by -dt-
I was pretty sure that if you used a video card the motherboards one "turned off" so it wouldnt do weird things with the inserted video card....
Not always, and highly depends on mobo, graphics card and the various drivers you use
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Originally posted by -dt-
just buy a cheap pci video card (presuming you have an agp one atm) and just plug it into pci slot then plug one of your monitors to it and bang it should work.
That really shouldn't be nessecairly (although it might work; but if this works, then there is no reason why using the integrated graphics on the mobo shouldn't work in the first place)
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Originally posted by qune
operating with 2 monitors simultaneously requires a videocard that has the additional DVI output...
That's nonsense. The DVI output is simply another type of plug then the older VGA plugs, that's all. It has got nothing to do with the ability of dual monitoring or whatever.
A graphics card can have:
1 VGA port
2 VGA ports
1 DVI port
2 DVI ports
1 VGA and 1 DVI port
etc...
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Originally posted by TylerG
Your computer might not have enough power to support to video cards at once
That is extremely unlikely for the average user. It is only when you use two high powered high-end graphics card that you may stumble across this. And in the case that you can afford such graphics card, and actually have a use for them, you also most likely also have a big power supply (+300W), again ruling out such an event of having too less power...
And even then, if all hardware things were set correctly and before you plugged in the monitor and installed the drivers, the second card would still be 'reconized' by Windows (enough power or not).
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