I have just moved my Win2k desktop to a dual head setup. It was quite an Out-of-Box Experience.
I bought a Matrox Millenium II 4 MB graphics card with a PCI interface off EBay for $15. It's a card that I often see recomended on multi-monitor sites. They're cheap, look good, and play nice with other cards. Even with 4 MB, it's more than enough to drive my second monitor.
I shutdown the machine, stuck the card in a random slot, plugged in the video cable (this cable actually goes to a KVM, so that the monitor can also show console from my linux machine), and booted Win2k. It detected the card, I stuck the Win2k CD in the drive to get the default Windows drivers. Voila, two monitors.
(The only problem I had was self-induced. I always forget to take the Win2k CD out of the drive before rebooting. When the machines boot from that CD, it rearranges the drive ordering. I boot from a SCSI drive, but have another drive in the system that's IDE, so I have to set the search for a bootable drive to start with SCSI first.)
9:11:26 PM  Categories: Toys
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