2. Installation

Installing the software for the card was quite painless: Install the driver and software on the included installation CD or on Village Tronic's Website, shut down the notebook, insert the card and boot up. This, however, installs a driver that supports only one additional monitor.

To use the dual-display cable you need to install a VTBook driver that supports two monitors. Sure you might be able to pick up a splitter elsewhere, but you won't get software support with that solution. No matter how you try, without the proper, updated drivers you will not get a second monitor to work on the VTBook card.

There were no instructions for installing dual monitor support. I figured it was pretty much the same as for the VTBook itself: install the driver, shut down, insert the card with the cable attached and boot up. Simple, but no cigar. I ran into a snag after installing the cable driver.

The dual-display driver didn't overwrite the single-display driver and my second monitor didn't work. As I found out during a tech support phone call I had to uninstall both drivers and then install the single-display driver before reinstalling the dual display driver. Unfortunately, the documentation does not mention this and the support Website did not have this information when I was testing the VTBook. Tech support was quick and courteous, so it wasn't a horrible experience, but it shouldn't have been necessary for me to make that call.

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