Three Monitor Setup? (Windows)

[PeppaPig]

@shadowfax

@robw

@shadowfax

Yeah, i have 4 monitors…the 4th is hanging from the ceiling over the top of my middle monitor with velcro attached to the bottom of it which sticks to the velcro attached to the top of the middle monitor…get the hanging length right and the screen leans forward just the right amount…looks cool also

some pics of the hanging 4th screen and the speaker on a breakfast bar mount…all cables are just hanging behind the screens…

velcro is pretty tough stuff, it takes a lot of effort to get the screen away from the bottom screen…no way it’s gonna fall, had to disassemble the screen stand and drill a small hole for a hook to attach the chain…of course the screen is upside down but that’s no biggy

Kevin

I like that setup! It appeals to the Wallace (and gromit) in me.

[shadowfax]

@Patanjali

When I had 4 30" Dell 2560x1600 monitors, I had an inverted-T arrangement, with the speakers above the outer two monitors.

I built a custom frame that held them all:

much tidier set up than mine but the monitoring triangle sweetspot looks a bit tight…ie…it looks like you have to be very close to the screen…very tidy though…

[shadowfax]

I like that setup! It appeals to the Wallace (and gromit) in me.[/quote] peppapig.

[silhouette]

I don’t know if anyone can help me? I am setting up a new computer with a Radeon HD 7700. For the life of me I can’t set up three monitors. The guys who built the computer aren’t much use.
The problemis weird.

The AMD Radeon HD 7700 has one each of DVI, HDMI and DP outputs. I have adapters for all three as follows:

DVI adaptor to VGA
HDMI to VGA
DP to HDMI

The problem is as follows.

1 Only two monitors will display at any one time.

2 The new Samsung monitor will display, but the display does not fill the whole screen.

3 All three monitors are seen by the Screen Resolution page in the Display Settings. However one of the three screens remains black and the Resolution and Orientation settings are greyed out.

4 The really strange thing is when the computer boots up the DP monitor(the Samsung) shows the boot up screen but when the computer has finished booting up it shuts down.

5 The Catalyst Control panel is no more use than the Windows Display page. I have to say that it is really ****ing me off.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

[Patanjali]

@silhouette,

It may be your adaptor arrangement. This Confused About 3 Screen setup on a Radeon 7700 thread describes a similar situation.

It seems that:

you need 1 native (DP) and 2 Legacy (HDMI or DVI) for the 3 screens to work.

The OP for that thread found a particular adapter for DP to VGA that worked, because it presented as a DP connection correctly.

[silhouette]

Thank you for that Patanjali. It was actually what I needed. Although not that adapter I found an active adapter supported by AMD.

Accell B101B-003B UltraAV Display Port with VGA Active Adapter - Black :...

It allowed me to connect a VGA monitor whilst presenting the DP output with the correct load. All three monitors immediately showed up.

My studio now looks like the Starship Enterprise - although I am not sure that I will go boldly where no musician has gone before.