How to make your computer support 3 display? LCD displays 1280 by 1024?

it is possible, just not the way that your thinking...

all you need is a dvi Y connector...one in two out which will essentially give you the same signal to two monitors and the third will run off the vga.

S-vid is garbage connection, you don't want to use it anyway...

I would say that's a pretty weird case, since (I suggest you already know that) most computers will support a whole range of resolutions (unless it's a laptop, which generally don't have such a variety). If you're talking options for monitors, then just about any monitor will support that resolution (even my 10 years old 15" monitor has almost that - 1024x768). Also, be careful not to pick any widescreen ones - they're unlikely to be very good with resolution of 1280x1024 or any of the other resolution for the "standard" monitors. Widescreen native resolution ratio is generally somewhere around 16:10, so with your resolution, either the picture will be skewed or not all of the screen will be used. But my guess is that it's not really monitor that causes the problem - my suggestion would be that it's the video card that's playing games with you. Depending on your video card, it might be cheaper to replace it than buy a new monitor. Or you could download new drivers for it so that it supports more resolutions (this would actually be the first place I would start - check your drivers. Uninstall and reinstall those before you try anything else.).

You can have as many as 10 monitors hooked up, if you have the resources. Each PCI slot on your motherboard can fit a PCI video card, and each PCI video card (that has the right drivers) can add a monitor to your computer. This is a cheap and effective route. You could probably find a AGP or PCI video card somewhere that has 3 outputs to it, but I doubt it would be worth it. Just throw another PCI video card in there--they are cheap. Note that according to one of the sites I listed below, not all video cards will support being a multiple monitor, but I have never seen such a thing. :)

Your brother is correct, the s-video port is not an EXTRA port but rather the same output as the DVI or D-sub VGA. You would need another PCI graphics card to get a 3rd display.

the only way i could think of would be to upgrade to a 6800 sli or any li ready graphics card if you have the slot for them, if not then im not thinking it possible. but if you did you could run two 6800's in sli and off of those run four dvi plugged monitors and still have two s-videos left over or even better run one big monitor and have each gpu run a half of the screan.

Windows will only handle 2 displays... though you can split one signal to run multiple monitors you can only see 2 different images at a time.

WindowsXP can support ten displays. You need a VGA splitter. Link below.

How to set up multiple monitors, link below.