Card thinks there is 4 monitors when only 2 are hooked up

I am running windows 2000 with this card. It has a dongle with 4 connectors to connect up to 4 monitors. I only have 2 connected and have the other two disable in the device manager but the computer thinks there is four monitors. So it uses the very right side of the right monitor as the middle of the total display and the resolution choices are crazy like 4096 x 480. I have tried reinstalling but the same thing happens. How do you get the card to recognize that there is only two monitors connected???

Vincent Moser Nov 17, 2006

This was working with two monitors with no problems on windows 2000.

We upgraded all the machines at my office to XP and now we can not seem to get it back the way it was.
Vincent Moser Nov 17, 2006

as to the dongle I will have to go take a look at it as I do not know if it is active or passive. But it has worked before with the card and the dongle for just two machines.

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Is the dongle an active or passive device? It could also be that the card is set up in a mode that forces, rather than senses, the 4 monitor option (e.g., I think this device supports composite mode). Please provide info on this dongle, and whether this setup was working as in now broken (and then what did you change before it broke) or if this is something new altogether.

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