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21 Matrox AuroraVX3mp – User Guide
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Solution
Windows XP
–
For advanced users
– To use a program that doesn’t support multi-display
systems, you can disable all displays other than your primary display:
1
Restart your computer in VGA mode (see “Restarting in VGA mode”, page 16).
2
Click
Start
"
Settings
*
"
Control Panel
"
Performance and Maintenance
*
"
System
(double-click*)
"
Hardware
"
Device Manager
. (* Depending on your version and
configuration of Windows, this part of the step may not be necessary.)
3
Click the plus sign to the left of the
Display adapters
.
4
For each display adapter,
except
for the one controlling your primary display, right-click
the name of a display adapter, then click
Disable
"
Yes
.
5
Restart your computer for changes to take effect.
Problem Not all graphics cards in the computer are fully supported
(Software doesn’t work with a certain graphics card, or another
graphics card doesn’t work at all)
1
Cause
If you have different models of graphics cards in your computer, your Matrox display driver
may not support all the graphics cards in your computer.
1
Solution
Under Windows XP, a display driver may support one or more graphics cards. If a display
driver doesn’t support a certain card, a different display driver must be used for that card.
Software that depends on a certain display driver may not work with a graphics card that’s
not using the same display driver.
2
Solution
If a graphics card isn’t supported, you may need to remove it. If there’s graphics hardware
built into the motherboard of your computer that’s not supported by your software, see your
system manual for information on how to disable this graphics hardware.
Note:
Your primary display can’t be disabled.
Note:
To restore display adapters, repeat steps 2–4, but click
Enable
in step 4.
Note:
If your Matrox product was provided by the manufacturer of your computer, check
the Web site of that manufacturer for the latest display driver. A display driver provided by
the manufacturer of your computer is more likely to be tested with your computer model.