Multiple (3 or more) monitors for PXI 8110 controller?

I'm just fishing for help from the NI community out there to help a customer: has anyone had success using the PXI 8110 with multiple (3 or more) monitors? I believe it can inherently support 2 monitors. We've tried ADlink and Peritek cPCI cards without success.
If so, please share how you accomplished it. Thanks!
Daniel Lin
Field Sales Engineer - Western New England

The Apple OS hates unmatched video cards.. and Photoshop CS4 shows you that clearly.
I started with 2 nVidia 7300s... upgraded to 1 nVidia 8800 and kept 1 nVidia 7300... crashed every 10 minutes it seems.
Then upgraded to 2 nVidia 8800s. I still get 1 or 2 crashes a day but nothing near what I got with unmatched video cards.
Based on all my research and the crash reports posted it seems clear that the primary cause of the issue is Apple video drivers and their inability to tell the cards apart.In many cases my crashes were occurring because the drivers were asking the 7300 to do things it simply could not do. I found with the matched 8800 cards most days things run fairly smoothly. I will get a crash or two a day, but I can tell immediately when Photoshop is going to crash. Not that that is any help. But I can at least work now. I just must relaunch PS a couple times and save often.
From what I've found there's little you can do. Basically matched video cards help a great deal but they aren't perfect. Remove one card so you are only using a single video card, or wait for Apple to fix drivers (OS10.6 in Sept maybe???). This is clearly a case where Apple embedding drivers in the OS can be an issue because you can't simply download an ATI or nVidia update and install it.
The one thing I haven't tested with the matched 8800 cards is to turn off OpenGL since that's a primary reason for my upgrading (rotating canvas is a life saver). Turning off all Open GL features may make PS more stable on my system with matched cards. I'm not certain. I can definitively tell you that unmatched video cards are a nightmare and matching 8800s are pretty good. Nothing I'm up in arms about and I have the GL features to use.

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When I am running w/ dual monitors and an NTSC monitor, what do I need to do w/ PPro so it outputs just the video (or program video, if you will) to the NTSC monitor - vs. outputting what you would normally see on the computer monitor. I assume it is in the ppro set up menu somewhere.
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Seems straight forward, but perhaps someone who has actually done this will chime in. There may even be a way to duplicate the playback monitor on multiple screens so you can watch it playing on both the computer monitor and the TV/monitor at the same time?? But I'm guessing that will require an external box to split the output signal to the different destinations.
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