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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The HARDWARE Short Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
 
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Mr. Blue Sky
Jun 17, 2005

 I have this 6600GT; can I use two monitors with it at the same time (using both the analog and DVI ports)?

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Mr. Blue Sky
Jun 17, 2005

DeeBye posted:

It looks like it supports dual monitors, and if this is so you should have no problems. I have an old AGP Radeon 9200SE running a dual monitor setup using the VGA and DVI outputs separately and the configuration looks exactly the same. The primary monitor is plugged into the VGA output and the secondary monitor is plugged into the DVI output using a DVI>VGA adapter that came with the card.
You were correct; thanks.

However running a CRT and an LCD next to each other (with the CRT at 75Hz, eugh) at different heights on my desk was really gross so I opted to use only the LCD. At least the text is much clearer.

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Mr. Blue Sky
Jun 17, 2005

Kaluza-Klein posted:

My friend has a Dell laptop that they dropped while it was on. When they picked it up it was completely locked up. They reset it, and upon rebooting Windows complained of some missing files (a blue screen I assume, I haven't had a chance to see it myself).

THe quick and dirty answer is to just :pt:, but how do I know the hard disk itself isn't damaged? Maybe a scratched platter? That could happen, right?

Is running chkdsk enough to confirm if the disk is physically damaged or not? If not, is there a program that can? Can chkdsk be run from the Windows recovery console?
The same thing happened to me once and it resulted in a scratched platter. Tell them to back up everything they want to keep as quickly as possible (use a LiveCD to copy stuff off or put the laptop's HDD in another computer) and buy a new drive.

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