andy jackson Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Hi, I have been using a strand 520 for a couple of years now with a past company and I know the ins and outs of strand inside out! having moved to a new position I am now using the 300 series which although on the same platform only has 1 monitor, which if annoying me! I have another monitor but no real idea how it will or wont connect, wether I need to buy a graphics card from strand or I can use a KVM to split the signal between two monitors, but would this sent the same sinal to both?!? I know its not the end of the world, just shift page up, but I really like having 2 monitors to use! any ideas? Andy - confused of marple! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KindredHyperion Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Yep, you'll need to buy the second optional graphics card for the 300 to use it with two monitors... I think they're about £250 - £300. Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueShift Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Kindred is right, but to add to that - a KVM is a device typically used to control multiple PCs (or any sources) with a single keyboard, monitor and mouse (KVM = Keyboard, Video, Mouse) and so that would do the opposite of what you want, it would allow you to use a single monitor and switch between viewing 2 (or more) consoles. A regular VGA splitter would indeed simply display the same on two monitors. The only option is dual video cards :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
propmonkey Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 I talked to guy who just bought a cheap double video card and installed it, he knew his way aorund DOS and added the drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henny Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 I talked to guy who just bought a cheap double video card and installed it, he knew his way aorund DOS and added the drivers.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> only strand cards will work on the 300 , even though it looks like a standard pci buss , they have swapped a few pins about. also the hight inside the case is so small , off hand I don't know of any vga cards that will fit, cheeper option if the desk has a network card, is to get the usb designers remote, it will allow you to view more screens on a pc/laptop/mac ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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