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I have a g400maxx under w2k.  It works great, the only thing I don't care
for is that w2k treats both monitors as one monitor.  My display resolution
is 2560x1024.  The matrox software has features that deals with some of
this, the most annoying thing is that any pop-up messages are split between
monitors and as far as I know there is no way around this. There should also
be some consideration concerning how similar your monitors are.  W2k only
recognizes the monitor type for the monitor attached to the primary output
on the g400.  So as far as I can tell whatever the settings are for the
primary monitor , the same are applied to the second.  So if your 2nd
monitor is only capable of 50htz refresh then you restrict yourself to using
the lower settings on both monitors or causing harm to one.  Win98
recognized both monitors separately and allowed you to install drivers for
each. It is possible that this is unique to my hardware/driver combination,
I don't know.  Matrox currently has 3 beta drivers and one certified driver
available, so it is possible that one of the newer betas addresses this
problem.

But yes, to answer your question, w2k is capable everything w98 is as far as
dual monitors goes.  And using a dual head card is probably the better
option since you save a pci slot, resources and you avoid the compatibility
issues (not all cards work together).

For what it's worth,
Greg
"NURMS" <viper_07@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> can win2000 handle multiple video cards to have multiple display like
win98?
>
> if so, what's the difference between the following option:
>
> 1) 2 video card output to 2 monitors in win2000
> 2) 1 Matrox G400 with "dual head" function to output to 2 monitors in
> win2000
>
> thx for answering
>
>