Thank you for all the hard work. There are three ports
which Dell literature calls VGA, TV and DVI. The adapter was
delivered with the D8400 nearly two years ago. Does this
indicate I might get the same results you got?

Tom Scales wrote:
Those docs are for the Low profile X300, as the X300 in the 8400 has both a
DVI and VGA port.

As I have an 8400 and X300 as well as the Dell 2405FPW (1920x1200) and
E193FP (1280x1024), I decided to test this. Admittedly I was pretty far
into the test before I remembered that I had replaced the piece-of-junk X300
with an nVidia 7600GS, so it took a little extra effort.

Put the X300 back in and installed the latest Radeon drivers.

Tried these combination:

1920x1200 DVI alone -- worked fine. All text at bootup displayed.
Resolution fine.
1280x1024 VGA alone -- also worked fine

Dual monitors (1920x1200 DVI and 1280x1024 VGA) also works just fine on this
card in the D8400

Since you're talking about 1920x1200, then you must NOT be talking about
their 30 inch display, as it has a higher resolution. If you DO mean the 30
inch, then all bets are off and the X300 will likely NOT work.

Hope this helps.
"Christopher Muto" wrote in message
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i think this should answer your questions...
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/en/setup.htm
and this confirms that 1920x1200 is not supported via either digital or
analog connected monitors...
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/en/specs.htm

"J David Ellis" wrote in message
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A Radeon X300 Series.
If it supports dual monitors, will it support the Cinema's 1920x1200
resolution and 24-bit color depth? It'll be used for editing stills in
Photoshop and movies in Premiere.

Christopher Muto wrote:
what video adapter do you currently have? it probably supports dual
monitors already.

"J David Ellis" wrote in message
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I'd like to replace the Dell E173FP 1280x1024 display with an Apple
Cinema but I understand the Cinema will not display the low-resolution
text during startup. Is it possible to plug a second adapter into the
Dimension 8400, running XP SP2, and run both displays at once using the
Dell display to show the startup text? --David