dual monitor

[corosus]

i've had this old monitor lying aroud for a couple of years now, and recently i manadged to aquire a dual monitor video cqrd, a dayton geforce 2 mx400 so i hooked up the old screen to the secondary screen port but when i activate the second monitor under win98SE it flqshes once or twice but does not activate, and when i return to the desktop properties it's still switched of.
yes i am sure the screen is at least vga.
i've set it at 256 colours and 640*480 with is the lowest i can go


what can i do???


in all honesty i don't need the dual screen but it would look so cool

[corosus]

i think i found it.
i think it's the monitor that is not up to the task
just thought i'd mention it in case annyone has the same problem and finds this post
thanks annyway

[glc]

It should work at 640x480 256 color no matter how old it is, as long as it's VGA. Just make sure to define it in Windows as a standard VGA monitor so it won't try to run at too high a refresh rate.

[corosus]

i did this and it still would not work
also i looked at the properties of the card and i seem unable to initiate somethiinig called twin view
the drivers apear to be nividia so iguess my next attemt wil be to try and get more recent drivers

[corosus]

i just tried ewer drivers and it didn't work,
intresting maybe: when i go to properties of the desktop and i chose what i think would be settings in english, i get the dual screen with the 2nd screen marked as non active.
wheni select the primary screen and press advanced i get a properties where 2 pages where added by nvidia,
when i select the secondary monitor and follow the same path those tab´s arn´t there.
what could be the reason for this, it might verry well be the way to the sollution for this problem