Two XGA Display Cards in one System (71289)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows 3.0
This article was previously published under Q71289

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.

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IBM and XGA

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/7/2005
Keywords:KB71289
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