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Double Monitor
Name: derik Date: March 1, 2008 at 08:04:15 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Professional CPU/Ram: Pentium III Product: Dell
Comment:
I'm trying to set up my home laptop with a double monitor. The laptop is running windows 2000 professional. The drives are set up properly because when booting up both screens will turn on and show the boot up process, when you log in. For the login process both monitors will be showing the exact same thing, my desktop has not been extended. All instructions in windows seem to instruct going into display properties from the control pannel, clicking settings and hitting "extend my Windows destop onto this monitor" the proplem is that my settings window doesn't seem to appear the same is it should. there is no second monitor appearing to select to extend to. I've done this with another laptop running windows XP and it worked just fine.
Could it be that my windows 2000 profesional doesn't support this feature? I thought that it did.
Name: paulsep Date: March 1, 2008 at 10:11:54 Pacific
Reply:
I think, this is a problem of the installed driver for your graphic card. The driver handles all graphical output for one or in this case two monitors.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 1, 2008 at 12:36:34 Pacific
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What video card is installed in the computer?
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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill Date: March 1, 2008 at 12:40:36 Pacific
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Jennifer
The unit is a Laptop.
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Response Number 4
Name: derik Date: March 1, 2008 at 13:47:46 Pacific
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The Monitor is a Dell E770
The Adapter is: Mobility M3 Chip type: M3 33MHz(AGP) DAC type: Internal DAC (350Mhz)
Where would I see what kind of video card I have?
Any instuction on how to fix this would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Derik
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Response Number 5
Name: OtheHill Date: March 1, 2008 at 15:14:52 Pacific
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Post the model of the Laptop.
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Response Number 6
Name: paulsep Date: March 1, 2008 at 15:24:23 Pacific
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Take a look into the device manager. There you'll find the model of your graphic card.
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Response Number 7
Name: OtheHill Date: March 1, 2008 at 16:03:58 Pacific
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The Adapter mentioned above is the graphics chip. Mobility M3. However, the laptop manufacturer may elect to use or not some features of the chip. Best to look at the manual for the laptop to see if it is capable of dual display.
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Response Number 8
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 1, 2008 at 18:44:14 Pacific
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I know it's a laptop, OTH. It would still help to know the model number.
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Response Number 9
Name: Bakers Date: March 1, 2008 at 23:39:10 Pacific
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Go to DELL Support and Install the Latest BIOS and Graphics Driver, if that does not fix the problem then DELL do not support the feature you want....
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Response Number 10
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland) Date: March 2, 2008 at 18:26:42 Pacific
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If the hardware only supports mirroring then extended display will not be available.
Pop up display properties, settings tab. What do you see - one monitor with a picture or 2 monitors numbered 1 and 2?
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Response Number 12
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 3, 2008 at 16:02:21 Pacific
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I think the OP lost interest.
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Response Number 13
Name: OtheHill Date: March 3, 2008 at 16:07:18 Pacific
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Or figured things out and didn't bother to tell anyone. All laptop have the brand and model on the outside don't they?
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Response Number 14
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland) Date: March 3, 2008 at 16:14:19 Pacific
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Most do.
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Response Number 15
Name: derik Date: March 3, 2008 at 17:00:02 Pacific
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Thanks alot for your help guys.. I'm still tinkering with it. Cup, I see one monitor with a pic of the desktop. is this a sign it's not capable?
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Response Number 16
Name: OtheHill Date: March 3, 2008 at 17:04:16 Pacific
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You may not have the corrrect drivers installed. Why haven't you posted your computer brand and model as requested?
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Response Number 17
Name: derik Date: March 4, 2008 at 06:20:21 Pacific
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It's a Dell Latitude if that helps
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Response Number 18
Name: OtheHill Date: March 4, 2008 at 06:34:04 Pacific
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Dell has many different models called Latitude. Do you know the exact model? I wanted to look on the Dell site to determine if the computer is capable of what you want to do.
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Response Number 19
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: March 4, 2008 at 10:55:20 Pacific
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derik, what is the complete model number? Latitude what???
If you had posted that in the original question under Manufacturer/Model, we could have had this resolved for you by now.
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