Raedon 9600 secondary display - Where did it come from?

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Philadelphia Frank wrote:
> It seems like my frame rates in Doom 3 went down. Looking around for a
> reason, I noticed that I have a secondary display listed in device
> manager (a second 9600).
>
> I disabled it from the device manager window. Is there a setting or
> jumper that ATI provides that will offer a better way to disable the
> second display?
>
> Will that secondary display slow my games down?
>
> Thank you for your time and help;
> Frank

Look on the back of your card.... you see a second output for another
monitor? The secondary display adapter is for that - it's normal and,
AFAIK, wont affect your frame rates.

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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 02:15:54 +0000, Shawk <shawk@clara.co.uk.3guesses>
wrote:

>Philadelphia Frank wrote:
>> It seems like my frame rates in Doom 3 went down. Looking around for a
>> reason, I noticed that I have a secondary display listed in device
>> manager (a second 9600).
>>
>> I disabled it from the device manager window. Is there a setting or
>> jumper that ATI provides that will offer a better way to disable the
>> second display?
>>
>> Will that secondary display slow my games down?
>>
>> Thank you for your time and help;
>> Frank
>
>Look on the back of your card.... you see a second output for another
>monitor? The secondary display adapter is for that - it's normal and,
>AFAIK, wont affect your frame rates.


Thank you for the help. I'll keep looking for the slowdown problem.

Frank