All I have are several usb, 1 vga and 1 hdmi outs. The 1 vga is going to monitor #1 so other than some usb contraption I figured I was left with hdmi.
Y cable for vga just duplicates the same signal.
Might be possible to get a better video card with more outs also. But possibly the cable suggested:
Amazon.com: Generic HDMI Input to VGA Adapter Converter For PC Laptop NoteBook HD DVD: Computers & Accessories
would work and be less expensive.
Yes, you need to get a graphics card, something by EVGA in the 960 series.
EVGA - Products - Graphics - GeForce 900 Series Family - GTX 960
Could you please work on filling out your specs more thoroughly, and you should really get rid of AVG, it`s pure garbage.
All you need is MSE and MBAM, both are free.
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just to note if you went new graphics card route you might need to get a new power supply as well. but we would need to know whats in the computer now.
Rather than getting a graphic card (which I am willing to do if I have to) wouldn't this item:
Amazon.com: Generic HDMI Input to VGA Adapter Converter For PC Laptop NoteBook HD DVD: Computers & Accessories
and a new cable solve the situation?
AVG? Don't remember bringing that up, but I'll take your advice and ditch it for the two mentioned tomorrow. Thx a lot folks.
Dave
You have AVG listed in your specs, that`s why I brought it up.
The link you provided shows an HDMI to VGA converter, I thought you wanted to go from VGA to HDMI ?
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Manhattan-177351/19415347
Watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYi__xzfct0
Thanks, I have one vga on my pc. But I need to hook up two monitors that have only vga inputs. So, my plan is to hook up monitor #2 via the hdmi out on the pc - assuming that would work.
Earlier someone suggested this cable:
Amazon.com: Generic HDMI Input to VGA Adapter Converter For PC Laptop NoteBook HD DVD: Computers & Accessories
which I believe would connect to the hdmi out on my pc and I would then connect a vga cable to that and run it to monitor #2.
I'll uninstall the avg now and install the 2 items recommended and see if anyone will confirm that this plan of using the above mentioned connection would work.
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it.
I asked on amazon about using that cable and the seller replied:
"generally, you can HDMI out into your monitors only if your computer have HDMI output.but this adapter on sale will not help.
because this adapter's VGA is female, your monitors VGA is female .too.
so you need find a VGA male adapter."
I replied:
Would I just use a male to male vga cable to connect to it and then to my monitor? A basic vga cable is male to male so it seems like the connection part would work easily.
Seems odd... I know tons of folks use dual monitors and certainly I'm not the only dude with one vga port on a pc and 2 vga monitors.
All of my machines have one VGA only, and I work around that by adding a video card. At that point, I can use either the VGA or the HDMI of the video card to connect a second monitor and then tell my OS to do dual display. Something like an nVidia fx6200 will be about the least-expensive card you can get that will work well with any Windows OS (and let you select separate resolutions for the monitors, if needed or desire) as well as with Linux (other than some older distros that do not do dual display).
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