Coco 2003-10-07 12:02
I'm wondering if it's possible to entirely disable a primary monitor.
Now when I say this I mean primary by bios settings not window settings. Currently I have a 3 monitor system with two cards. A geforce4 and a crappy old ATI Rage II card.
Of course since the Rage II card is old I have it set in the bios as primary. Which makes windows work with both it and the geforce4. In fact it almost works perfectly. The problem is older software (mostly old games) all insist on using the old Rage II card since it's first according to the bios. So I tried disabling the monitor using ultramon but all that does is make it a black screen with a blinking cursor. If I then launch any of the old games they load up on that monitor anyways.
Now I realize this isn't a huge issue because the old card is quite capable of playing the old games flawlessly. It's just with my monitor setup I don't like playing the game on the third monitor and i'm too lazy to shift the physical monitor setup every time I wanna play an old game.
So in short is there any way to fully disable the monitor on the Rage II card and make my games play using the primary monitor on the Geforce card?
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Christian Studer 2003-10-08 11:30
If the games are old DOS games, the problem is that fullscreen DOS applications will always use the BIOS primary monitor, independent of the primary monitor setting in Windows.
The only solution would be to reboot and set the AGP card as primary in BIOS.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Coco 2003-10-08 12:02
There is no other possible way to force stuff onto another monitor? I knew I could edit the bios but I almost never reset so that's sort of a pain. Plus if I do that then I can't use the 3rd monitor at all because the old pci card must be primary.
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Christian Studer 2003-10-09 12:15
I'm not aware of any way to force fullscreen DOS applications to use another monitor.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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