Two or more monitors

[XaMMaX211]

Well I've always wanted to have more than one monitor hooked up to my computer, and my aunt has like 4 monitors in her garage, how would I go about doing this?

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[Mr_Grinch14]

You need to have (to my knowlege) more than one type of connector on your graphics card, or have some sort of expander for the one port you need (i'm assuming standard VGA).

I could be wrong though.

[XaMMaX211]

You need to have (to my knowlege) more than one type of connector on your graphics card, or have some sort of expander for the one port you need (i'm assuming standard VGA).

I could be wrong though.

....wut?

[Panterra8905]

Look up a tutorial on youtube or something. They usually have some good user created tutorials for thing like this.

[tails]

Just check if you have another VGA port, And plug in the monitor.

[General Nick]

Look on the back of your computer. There will either be two blue ports, a blue port and a white port, or two white ports. Your current monitor is taking up one of these (Usually the blue one if its a computer monitor or white one if its a small TV screen).
Get the other monitor and look at the end of its cable. If it matches one of the ports, plug it in. Then Right Click your desktop, go to Properties, and go to the Settings tab.
There will be two boxes representing your monitors, 1 and 2. Click on 2, and then check the little box at the bottom labelled 'Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor'.

[XaMMaX211]

Just check if you have another VGA port, And plug in the monitor.

I don't, that's what i'm asking, do I buy a special box thing or something?

Look on the back of your computer. There will either be two blue ports, a blue port and a white port, or two white ports. Your current monitor is taking up one of these (Usually the blue one if its a computer monitor or white one if its a small TV screen).
Get the other monitor and look at the end of its cable. If it matches one of the ports, plug it in. Then Right Click your desktop, go to Properties, and go to the Settings tab.
There will be two boxes representing your monitors, 1 and 2. Click on 2, and then check the little box at the bottom labelled 'Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor'.

Neither, I have a blue plug, and an inverted blue plug that's green

[Yeturn]

It would take up a lot of system resources, I don't recommend it. And its not as great as its cut out to be.

[XaMMaX211]

It would take up a lot of system resources, I don't recommend it. And its not as great as its cut out to be.

whai?

[tails]

It would take up a lot of system resources, I don't recommend it. And its not as great as its cut out to be.

Wat. My laptop can take another screen with no performance changes.

[Ethan]

I have 3 ports on the back, 2 white and one blue. I'm SPESHIL!

[FrAgGEr]

I have 3 ports on the back, 2 white and one blue. I'm SPESHIL!

that just means you also have a integrated card.

so do i...so you're not special

[Ethan]

that just means you also have a integrated card.

so do i...so you're not special

Damn, I was getting my hopes up.
Thought I was related to the Petrelli's or something.

[Reactor Worker]

If you want to have a really bitching setup you could get a Triple-head-2-Go box to play games on all 3 monitors. Basically you can play a game spread out onto each monitor for surround gaming. It can offer a real gameplay advantage in FPS's and Flight sims.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/surroundgaming/en/product/

If you're not in it for the e-snake then just hook up the monitors to whatever ports you have available. If the connectors don't match then go to radioshack (or better yet, buy online) and get some adapters.

Windows XP, Vista, and 7 all have built in multi-monitor capabilities (accessible by right-clicking on the desktop). Your options are limited however using the Microsoft Utility. A better option is to purchase special multi-monitor software such as Ultra-Mon...

http://www.realtimesoft.com/

That will allow you to extend your taskbar out to the extra monitors, choose different desktops for each monitor and many other features not available using the Windows tool.

Extra-info:

Yeturn - The cigarette is wrong, yet again. Using multiple-monitors hardly uses any extra resources. All but the most pathetic of computers should be quite capable of using many monitors.

Gen. Nick - All accurate information. Probably better to use pictures to describe plugs but you offered useful info. *pats on back*

http://images10.newegg.com/UploadFilesForNewegg/itemintelligence/VideoCard/Graphics_Card_Interfaces.pdf

[XaMMaX211]

-snawp-

the green plug I have isn't in the pdf file