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Q71289: Two XGA Display Cards in one System

Article: Q71289
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.0,3.0a
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 06-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows versions 3.0, 3.0a 
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SUMMARY
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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
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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

Additional query words: 3.00 windrvr 3.00a

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbWin3xSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbWin300 kbWin300a
Version           : WINDOWS:3.0,3.0a

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