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Dual Display capabilities on the ATI All In Wonder Video Cards

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Okay, first. You need to make sure you have a cable that separates the analog and digital signals. It can not be a split DVI-I cable that splits into two DVI-I connectors. This is because they need to be respectively connected to a CRT that accepts ANALOG VGA and an LCD that accepts the digital DVI-D. You can not use any sort of DVI to VGA adapter anywhere in this setup. In other words you need one digital monitor and one analog monitor.

I'm going to walk you through how I enabled dual monitor support on my system. Along are some screencaps of the appropriate control panels to guide you along the way.

Setup instructions:

1. I don't know if it makes any difference, but I am using Cat 3.5 drivers.

2. Open up the Display Control Panel, you should see two monitors. You primary active and secondary greyed.

3. ATi Displays. You will see that your primary MONITOR activated but without color. The Flat Panel Display (FPD) should be red, and if you have something connected to the TV connector it will be red as well. This basically mean those displays have been recognized but only the CRT is enabled.

4. Click on the Red Power symbol for the FPD monitor. This will light up the MONITOR and FPD as green. Click [Apply] then a window will popup indicating "The settings have been applied. Do you wish to keep" Select "Yes" By this time, both monitors should flash and the display on the FPD will be a clone of the primary MONITOR.

5. Enable the clone display on the CRT by clicking on the dual monitor symbol in the monitor section. Click [Apply] then both screen will flash then a window will popup indicating "the settings have been applied. Do you wish to keep" Select "Yes" and then [OK]

6. When you come back to the main display control panel, you will see that the secondary monitor appears disabled even though you can see an exact cloned display on the LCD monitor.

7. Select the secondary monitor. And you will now see that you have the ability to "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor."

8. Check the box to enable "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor." Click [Apply] the screen will flash and the primary display will default to the LCD monitor. Obviously by now you have extended the desktop across two displays. But, since my LCD monitor is my secondary monitor on my leftside, I will continue the instructions.

9. Go back to [Advance] | ATi Displays. And you will now see numbers in place of the symbols indicating which monitor is the primary and which is the secondary.

10. Select [1] on CRT then click [Apply] then both screen will flash then a window will popup indicating "the settings have been applied. Do you wish to keep" Select "Yes" then click OK.

11. Back at the main Display Control Panel you will see that your primary monitor is the CRT on the left and the LCD is the secondary monitor on the right.

12. Drag the box labeled "2" to the left of the box labeled "1" Click apply and the LCD monitor will flash then click [OK]

13. Now open up the programs and prove to the non-believers that Dual Monitor display is in fact capable on the ATi All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro.

This article was researched and written by efernandez_98

Edited by Rodney Reynolds (Personally, I've not tried this myself)

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