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Matrox ATC – User Guide
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Solution
Windows 2000/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
Double-click the PowerDesk icon (
) on your Windows taskbar to access the
PowerDesk main interface. To see the PowerDesk icon in Windows XP, you may need to
click the
Show hidden icons
button (
) on your Windows taskbar.
2
Click
Multi-Display Setup
. Make sure you’re using
1 display
.
3
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.)
4
Click the plus sign to the left of the
Display adapters
.
5
For each display adapter,
except
for the one controlling your primary display, right-click
the name of a display adapter, then click
Disable
"
Yes
.
6
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 2000/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
–
, but click
Enable
in step
.
Note:
A Matrox driver package that supports multiple graphics cards may be available. For
more information, see the Matrox Web site (
