Dual Monitors in ATI Radeon HD 3200

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DRZilboorg

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OK, I've got the two monitors hooked up to the splitter cable, I open "personalize" display and it tells me monitor two is "not active".

It does, however, display Monitor 1 as a clone.

How do I activate the second monitor so that when I extend the desktop I can open up windows separately?

Something in the driver configuration I'm missing?
 

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Follow-up based on some advice here:

In Catalyst, Monitor will enable for 1 second or so and then become disabled again.

I am therefore unable to "extend the desktop" to enable multiple applications as intended.

So where do I go and what do I need in order to permanently engage Monitor 2?

Both are Dell flat screens, FWIW, attached to a Dell Inspiron
 

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hm if i remember right....... you have to enable it..... and apply that.... then... drag it to be extended i think....
can we get a screenshot?
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer, Aspire M1201\Custom Build
    CPU
    AMD Athlon X2 5000+ @ 2.6Ghz
    Motherboard
    Acer Micro-ATX Motherboard
    Memory
    2x2gb Patriot Viper DDR2 PC6400 @ 800mhz Dual Channel SLI Edition (4-4-4-12)
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI HD3870 with 512mb GDDR4
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD 7.1 Onboard Sound
    Monitor(s) Displays
    22" Acer X223 Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1680 X 1050
    Hard Drives
    320gb Western Digital SATA II (Ubuntu 9.10) 500gb Seagate SATA II 1tb Seagate SATA II (Vista Home Premium)
    PSU
    ULTRA X3 600 Watt Modular
    Case
    NZXT Tempest (The Airflow King) 2x 140mm Fans, 4x 120mm Fans
    Cooling
    1x 135mm In PSU, 1x 70mm On CPU, And 1x 120mm On GPU
    Mouse
    Microsoft Sidewinder X5
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Sidewinder X6
    Internet Speed
    6 Mbs Down 1 Mbs Up
    Other Info
    AVerMedia 1500MCE TV Tuner Logitech X540 5.1 Surround Sound
In other words, since I can't enable it since it won't let me enable it, I'm SOL? Sheesh, I'm not interested in TV or movies, I just want to have a couple of productivity programs open side by side so I can make a living.

If it matters it's a new 64bit machine, AMD Triple core, 8 Meg.

If I hook one up to the HDMI instead of the splitter, do I have a snowball's chance of not having to buy a new video card?
 

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What is the make and model of your motherboard? Also does it only have the VGA and HDMI ports; or does it have VGA, HDMI and DVI?

Reason for asking is my board (Asus M4A78 Pro) has all three, and any two of them can be used at one time. Specs on the 780G/HD 3200 chipset,

AMD M780G Specifications

ATI SurroundView™ Technology
Provides support for four or more monitors when you combine an integrated graphics processor (AMD 780 chipset-based motherboard) with a discrete graphics processor (ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series2 or ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series). Each additional discrete graphics processor can provide support for two or more independent monitors. The integrated graphics processor and the discrete graphics processor work in parallel to drive multiple displays.
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Unfortunately I can't tell you how well it owrks or doesn't as I have never even enabled the onboard.

P.S. Even if both monitors were working, using a splitter will give nothing more than the same thing on each with no way of changing it.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Me
    CPU
    Athlon x2 7750 BE
    Motherboard
    Asus M4A78 Pro
    Memory
    2x2gb Kingston
    Graphics card(s)
    Sapphire HD 4830
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Xtreme Music
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer P221w and Acer 1916w
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050 and 1440x900
    Hard Drives
    2x80 GB Seagate 7200.10 in RAID0, 500 GB Seagate 7200.12
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 500W
    Case
    Antec Sonata III
    Cooling
    AC Freezer 64 Pro and a couple of 120 mm case fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G5 v2
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wave
    Internet Speed
    10000/1000
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