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A couple of random 8887 pics (dual display)

post #1 of 35
3/15/03 at 6:22pm
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I'll add more pics to the thread later of random 8887 pics.


Here's the 8887 using a Sony 21" G500 as an attached display. It looks a little washed out, but it's from the camera, not the displays.


Here's an 8887 using a NEC LCD as an attached display. The 8887 is powering a DVD movie (Spiderman) and cable TV over on the LCD. I surfed the net while both played. The CPU usage cruised usually under 20% and on batteries it went for exactly 1 hour and 19 minutes powering both LCDs, DVD, TV, and websurfing.


Random pic of the remote that comes with the 8887 that controls everything. I had never conditioned or cycled the battery.
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post #2 of 35
3/15/03 at 6:24pm
cool
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post #3 of 35
3/16/03 at 4:38am

Cool again

Thanx Adam, this pictures answers again once i asked you if was it possible, now i see it by my own eyes, an attached monitor through VGA output displaying different things.

Cool

P.D.: Is the Sager from your own ?????
It seems to has a little gold hinges ???
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post #4 of 35
3/16/03 at 4:44am

Hee hee

I think it is the SAND painted one from Colorware. Or some similar color - definitely a painted laptop.

SUPERB pics adam that digital camera I want is on rebate now (Casio 5.0 MP) so I might snap it up
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post #5 of 35
3/16/03 at 5:25am
Adam (or anyone), would you mind posting a pic of a 5660 next to a 17" monitor? I'll be getting a 56xx, and I wanna see how it will compare to me Dell 17" monitor I'm using now... Thanks, if it's not too much trouble!
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post #6 of 35
3/16/03 at 9:55am
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I'd compare it with a 17" for you, but all I have are 19" and 21" CRT monitors.

The hinge color is because of the lighting in the room I took the pics. I didn't use a flash and the room has worthless yellow energy saver lights.
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post #7 of 35
3/16/03 at 1:10pm

Gold hinges !!!

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Originally posted by Adam@PCTorque
I'd compare it with a 17" for you, but all I have are 19" and 21" CRT monitors.

The hinge color is because of the lighting in the room I took the pics. I didn't use a flash and the room has worthless yellow energy saver lights.
Tyranous !!!

The gold hinges looks so great.
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post #8 of 35
3/16/03 at 2:40pm
hi adam

what kind of span did u use in the dual monitor setup ??
it looks horizontal

i can see the system tray icons on ur 1st monitor
nut in horizontal span the taskbar stretches over both monitors so the system tray should appear on the 2nd monitor
is it coz its XP ?? - i've tried hori. span on win2K

the other possibility is the clone mode - but in that case both monitors show the same thing - which is obviously not happening here
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post #9 of 35
3/16/03 at 3:12pm
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Originally posted by Adam@PCTorque
I'd compare it with a 17" for you, but all I have are 19" and 21" CRT monitors.
What a problem to have! haha... Thanks, anyway.... can anybody else post there 5660 with a 17" monitor? Thanks
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post #10 of 35
4/29/03 at 4:20pm
Adam,

Im fooling around with my sager 8887 and my external monitor. I was wondering how you got it that way with the split screen thing, when i hooked mine up its a mirror image on my external monitor.

My laptop screen and my external monitor mirror images of themselves.

Thanks

Kauaiian
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post #11 of 35
4/29/03 at 4:52pm
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Right clickt he desktop background, go to properties, click the settings tab, you'll see an attached display box to check., make sure the #2 monitor is lit up, if it isn't enable it.
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post #12 of 35
4/30/03 at 12:35am
Adam,

There is no option for me to do that, i tried it with the advance button to for the ATI control panel.

There is nothing close to what you mentioned, i have windows 2000. Now i can't get back to my native resolution its stuck at 1024X768 thats the highest it goes.

Thanks


Kauaiian
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post #13 of 35
4/30/03 at 1:33am
I was able to get my native resolution back to 1600 X 1200. The only problem that i have is trying to get the dual monitor to working, i want to make it so that its a split screen the 2 monitors sharing one desktop instead of having a mirror image on both monitors.

Using windows 2000, i looked adam for the option that you listed but wasn't able to find it.

Thanks


Kauaiian
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post #14 of 35
4/30/03 at 3:22am
It should be there as Adam indicated. Do you have the video card driver set to the actual type of card or is it running 'generic'? I've been using W2k with dual monitors since W2k was in beta and have set it up in dozens of systems at work with both dual video cards and cards with two video outs.

If this doesn't help as far as ideas then I'll see specifically how the settings look and try to post some screen shots tomorrow when I get back into the office where I can look on one of the workstations.

My first impression though is that the video driver got messed up somehow and reinstalling that driver may fix the issue. By default it's also set to "stretch" the desktop not clone it to a second display.
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post #15 of 35
4/30/03 at 4:28am
I uninstalled and reinstalled the video drivers. Upon restart the ATI help menu came up and i looked into that to configure the multi-monitor. ATI help menu said that there should be an option to choose how the extended monitor will be either across <---> or up and down. I didn't have that option.

i but i have my LCD as the primary and the extended monitor as the secondary. There is no option to choose as how the ATI help says that there should be see item 5 on ATI help.

I just placed a call to sager to see what they have to say about it. Im almost done with my 30 days satisfaction guarantee, about 2 days left. Would Sager still take it back and fix it even if my satisfaction is over? It should be covered by the one year warranty correct?

Thanks,

Is there anything else that i can try before i send it back to them if i have to.


Kauaiian
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post #16 of 35
4/30/03 at 8:51pm
Do you have to set your display to a larger size to get it to spread across both monitors? One of my matrox cards is like that. If I set it to 1280x1024 it shrinks to one monitor. If I set it to 2560x1024 it goes to both monitors. At that point in the dual head settings it tells me 'enabled but not currently active'. So what is the largest option you have available for your display slider on the 'display properties' -> 'settings' page?

Sorry I'm unable to help further, but one of the peeps around here that actually has the same machine should be able to get you past this as they will be able to look at the same screens.
I couldn't find a similar card here as all the ati's we have are running with two physical cards and none of our laptops have dual display as they are all ancient.
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post #17 of 35
5/1/03 at 3:24am
I placed a call to Sager's Technical Support line and talked to some guy about the problem that i was having. He told me that Windows 2000 doesn't have the feature to do that, he said tha Windows XP had that option.

Thats what he told me, i think that Windows 2000 should have the same option to do that since windows 98 was able to do it.

I think i shall call ATI later and see what they say about it.


Kauaiian
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post #18 of 35
5/1/03 at 3:31am
Have you installed ATI's control panel? If you haven't that will probably solve your problem.
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post #19 of 35
5/1/03 at 3:37am
shadowhwk,

Yes i have the ATI control panel installed, i am using the drivers that sager provided on the CD. Its the 6218 drivers.

Should i update to the newest drivers the Catalyst 3.2 even tho i have direct X 8. Doesn't the Cat 3.2 Need directX 9? And i read that direct X 9 was only for XP

Kauaiian
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post #20 of 35
5/1/03 at 10:59pm
Well i called ATI and they said that i would need to contact Sager to find out if my machine was compatible with the dual display. ATI just makes the chip and Sager puts in the extras.

Does the dual monitor only work with windows XP. By looking at the pictures that adam posted looks to me that hes using windows XP.

When i go to the advanced settings to change the screen size it says multiple monitor 9000.

I just installed the Catalyst 3.2 Drivers and the new control panel. Would i have to install the hydravision as well in order to do that?

Thanks.
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