Vista Tutorial - Dual Monitors in ATI Radeon HD 3200

OK, I've got the two monitors hooked up to the splitter cable, I open "personalize" display and it tells me monitor two is "not active".

It does, however, display Monitor 1 as a clone.

How do I activate the second monitor so that when I extend the desktop I can open up windows separately?

Something in the driver configuration I'm missing?

Follow-up based on some advice here:

In Catalyst, Monitor will enable for 1 second or so and then become disabled again.

I am therefore unable to "extend the desktop" to enable multiple applications as intended.

So where do I go and what do I need in order to permanently engage Monitor 2?

Both are Dell flat screens, FWIW, attached to a Dell Inspiron

hm if i remember right....... you have to enable it..... and apply that.... then... drag it to be extended i think....
can we get a screenshot?

In other words, since I can't enable it since it won't let me enable it, I'm SOL? Sheesh, I'm not interested in TV or movies, I just want to have a couple of productivity programs open side by side so I can make a living.

If it matters it's a new 64bit machine, AMD Triple core, 8 Meg.

If I hook one up to the HDMI instead of the splitter, do I have a snowball's chance of not having to buy a new video card?

What is the make and model of your motherboard? Also does it only have the VGA and HDMI ports; or does it have VGA, HDMI and DVI?

Reason for asking is my board (Asus M4A78 Pro) has all three, and any two of them can be used at one time. Specs on the 780G/HD 3200 chipset,

AMD M780G Specifications

Unfortunately I can't tell you how well it owrks or doesn't as I have never even enabled the onboard.

P.S. Even if both monitors were working, using a splitter will give nothing more than the same thing on each with no way of changing it.

I've got no idea where to look in "System" to determine what's on the motherboard and isn't.

The video card has a cache.