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Windows XP/2000 - video card problem posted in the Operating Systems forums; I recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows. Everything is working fine but my dual monitors. They both show the same thing. When I go to "displays" in the ...

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Old 05-11-2006
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I recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows. Everything is working fine but my dual monitors. They both show the same thing. When I go to "displays" in the control panel, only one monitor is showing up there. The next thing I did was go to the device manager where it appears that I may not have the proper drivers for my video card installed???

The problem is that I don't know where to get the proper driver because I don't remember anything about my video card. I think it's made by ATI so I went there and tried one of their drivers but it didn't work.

Is there somewhere I can go to find the exact specs of my video card? The device manager simply calls it "video controller (VGA compatible)". Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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Hey dubstyle5000!
Welcome to PC Helpforum!

What kind of graphical card is there in your PC?
Are both monitors connected to 1 graphics card?

You might need to download the software from e.g. nvidia to use both screens as you want to.

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You could have a look with this app to see if it shows what video card you have:

http://www.pchelpforum.com/your-pc-d...stem-spec.html

And if it is an ATI Radeon and you are running the normal version of XP then this should be the right driver:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206..._enu_31959.exe

(youll need .net to install it)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/i...a/dotnetfx.exe

And for an Nvidia card this should probebly be the right driver:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_84.21.html


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