Monitor & TV to Graphics Card Question?

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I currently have my Acer AL1914 19" VGA monitor:o & Sony Bravia KDL-32S2010 TV connected together via a VGA splitter cable to the vga output of my graphics card. ATI Radeon HD5850 1GB Extreme Edition bought via ocuk in August in the 1 week only deal/sale:D.

I would like to use 2 seperate desktops at the same time, 1 on the monitor (E-mail/Excel ect) & 1 on the TV (Games/Movies ect).

Possible solution?
Am I right in thingking if I buy this, StarTech.com Black DVI to VGA Cable Adapter - M/F [DVIVGAMFBK] £4.99

Can I connect it to the VGA monitor & then to the DVI-D on the graphics card & keep the TV connected to the VGA on the graphics card.

Or is their a better way to connect them?


Looking to upgrade the monitor to at least 24" in approx March 2012 anyway.
TV was bought around July 2006, don't really want to replace this yet as been on virtually 24/7 since bought & still works perfect as the day it was bought:D. Only has 1 x HDMI and that is stolen by my cable box.
 
My bro is doing exactly what you are asking.

He runs his generic monitor off the GPUs VGA output and I let him "borrow" a spare DVI-VGA adapter as his LED TV has VGA rather than DVI as it's PC input.

With both displays connected you right click on the windows desktop and select screen resolution from the box. Then look for the extend desktop option so each display is independant rather than having two cloned displays. If you click identify you can easily see which screen is "1" and "2". 1 should be on the left and 2 on the right, you can drag the icon of the screen to arrange them if they dont do this by default.

Hope that covers everything you need to know.

*edit* if the card has two DVI outputs one could possibly be DVI-DL which is a digital output. The VGA adapter shouldnt work on that DVI output but the other one should be fine.
 
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