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10th October 2008, 05:14 PM
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That is a possibility! I arrived at my guess because after having had a look through the online manual for that monitor, the only mention of usb i found was a description of a usb hub. There was however, no reference to the monitor's usb socket.
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10th October 2008, 05:16 PM
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I guess it will have to remain a mystery!
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10th October 2008, 05:54 PM
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Unless Sam takes a screwdriver and test equipment to it that is. 
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10th October 2008, 06:56 PM
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If Sam has any sense he will leave it well alone!
Another cunning develish trick might be to plug into the PC with a USB cable and see what happens!
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10th October 2008, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by samjohnson  Also on the monitor there is a usb plug. I can't seem to figure out what the heck its for though. I hooked it up and didn't do anything. | From his first post.
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10th October 2008, 09:55 PM
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haha yup I won't take it apart at all. Don't want to ruin a perfectly good monitor. 
Ah you found a manual.. haven't had time to look as of yet. Funny it doesn't say much about the usb plug. I did find out about running two different graphics cards at the same time though. I asked a guy that works in a IT department in a hospital about it. He said that in XP you can run two different GPUs but in Vista it won't work. Ha!! I just remembered that I had a spare 7600GT lying around...
I wonder if my PSU will handle the two cards together... probably not.
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10th October 2008, 11:15 PM
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What sort of card are they both? AGP, PCI, or PCIExpress? What internal sockets does your motherboard have?
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11th October 2008, 06:23 AM
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They are both pci x 16. I have a two x 16 slots. The main one runs in 16x and I think the other one runs in 8x if you have a single card in it... I think.
I have a 8800GT and a 7600GT. But my psu probably won't handle both of them so oh well.
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11th October 2008, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by samjohnson haha yup I won't take it apart at all. Don't want to ruin a perfectly good monitor.
Ah you found a manual.. haven't had time to look as of yet. Funny it doesn't say much about the usb plug. I did find out about running two different graphics cards at the same time though. I asked a guy that works in a IT department in a hospital about it. He said that in XP you can run two different GPUs but in Vista it won't work. Ha!! I just remembered that I had a spare 7600GT lying around...
I wonder if my PSU will handle the two cards together... probably not. | Sam
your IT guy is talking through his hat!
I have 2 GeForce cards in my system running 3 monitors (and I have just set up a system for a client using 2 graphics cards and 4 monitors and it works a treat.
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11th October 2008, 04:15 PM
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Are they the same kind of card? Cuse I think he ment that you can't do two different types of cards.
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11th October 2008, 04:30 PM
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It should be possible with any card that you have a slot for.
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12th October 2008, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by samjohnson Are they the same kind of card? Cuse I think he ment that you can't do two different types of cards. | I have done both - on my machine there are 2 x GeForce 8600 cards in 2 x PCiE slots (check the spec.), and on another they are two different types - but this is because the motherboard has only 1 x PCiE slot so the other one is a PCI card. Both work. Installation can be a pain - set up the first one first and then the second - for some reason on the second machine I had fun installing both sets of drivers at the same time - if you follow me! Do 1 first then fit the second and install the drivers for that.
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