goto display properties. in the Settings tab. and click on advanced. should be the duel monitor/ display settings in there.

I have a question...On my case, there are 3 fans. One is on the back, and 2 are on the side. Thats just fine and dandy, but we have a new computer desk that has a little room for the tower, and while the back is open, There's only about 1 and a half inches of space on the side with the fans. Im wondering, will that be a problem when it comes to overheating?

shouldnt. and actually 3 fans is a little over kill.

i rewired my PC a little. i put 5 switches on the front (in vacant floppy slot) and split the wires to each fan and sodered them into the switches (along witht he light)..... i only keep the back fan turned on.

P4 are actually quite good about over heating. they have some built in thing that slows itself down if it feels its overheating (thats aparently why they're good to overclock *shrug*)

It says I have 2 display devices or somthing like this...one is AGP and the other is PCI and says secondary. Should I remove one of these, and which one should I be using to play games, and how do I know which one I am using?

Congratulations Jason! Having a new computer is wonderful experience, cherish it.

if its suggesting you have 2 graphics cards. one agp and one pci.

then you should be using the AGP without a doubt.

im just not sure what your 2nd one is in the PCI slot. i dont THINK its a graphics cards. cuz GFX cards havnt used a PCI slot for a long time. might be some sort of TV card. maybe

look in your window. what does the 2nd one look like?

Its prolly at TV out or sumthin...but I found it strange that every time I boot up Ski Resort Tycoon, it says

''This computer has multiple video cards. Which one would you like to use?''

and then it lets me choose between:

display, Primary Display Driver or

\\.\DISPLAY1, RADEON 9700/9500 SERIES

ive tried them both, and from what I can tell, they both look the same in the game. I'll have to fool around in the hardware thinge to find out whats the diffrence.

EDIT: According to the device manager, one says RADEON 9700/9500 SERIES, and the other says RADEON 9700/9500 SERIES-Secondary. Dunno what that means, it says they both are working properly and all...dosent really say anything saying what exactly they are.

well if it actually is 2 vid cards.

the primary one should be the AGP one, AGP = a ton faster then PCI...... and unless you have a reason for the 2nd. either disable it. or disable and take it out.


---EDIT---- Tried them both?? if its 2 vid cards you'd have to plug your monitor into each one to try both. Do you have 2 monitor plugs in the back of the computer?

Yea, the primary one is the AGP one...and I dont think theres another monitor plug on the back of my computer...There's an S-Video plug right next to the monitor plug, and a longer white plug next to that...neither of which are being used...I have no Idea what the longer white one is. Also, when im in the device manager, it says they are both located in PCI bus 1...I dunno if that means anything.

the longer white one is the DVI, digital video in ? usually used to plug into a flat panel LCD monitor. or maybe a HDTV

if you had another GFX card it would be in one of the slots below your main GFX card. somehow i dont think thats what you have. hard to say without seeing it. dunno

Yea I just disabled the PCI one...Oh well...the new thing is when I run this test thinge on my graphics card, it says I need to download Directx 8.1 or later, I did that, restarted, ran the test again, and it still says the same thing. *shrugs* Your prolly sick of answering my stupid questions by now, Null. :p

Late thursday nigt I came so close to buying a new computer with a P4 2.8ghz 800FSB and 1024 DDR400 ram. It also had 120gig hdd and a version of the Ati 9800 video card along with a "19 flat screen crt monitor.. I just could not quite get myself to submit the order as it was $400cdn more then I was comfortable in paying for a computer.

just get DirectX 9
:P

Your ****ting me? You can get that computer for $400?!?!? buddy where can i get it? thats only like 5 days of work or so!

Yea...thats what I downloaded in the first place and it still said I havent downloaded it...