Hey people :) First of all apologies if this is in the wrong section, I was a little confused to where to create a ew topic and thought this would be the best place but mods please remove if you feel necessary. I was hoping someone could offer me a little support regarding trying to add my new tv/monitor as my secondary monitor to my pc, ideally what I want is when you add a second monitor to your laptop as an extended monitor that is what I require. Is this possible? If so how? Would I need to purchase an additional graphioc card for my pc? Could you recommend me one? Or could I purchase something like a vga splitter which I would plug in the back of my vga slot and it would have two female vga connections? Thank you.

Most (Like 99%) laptops support this by default. You just have to cycle through the external screen configurations until you get both monitors at once. Most laptops do this by holding the "FN" key and pressing "F4" key. It differs as to which function key you press depending on the manufacture of the laptop. Mine is a Dell and it uses FN+F8. Just look at the little blue pictures on the Function buttons to determine which one.

Hi, I assume that you will buy a new monitor which uses the DVI (digital) connection. To use this I suggest buying a video card that has one VGA connector for your existing monitor and one DVI connection for your new monitor. You could buy a DVI video card just for the new monitor, but as many video cards have both vga and DVI, you might as well go for one new card to handle both monitors. The type of card you buy will also depend on what you have now (e.g., AGP, PCI Express). If the video is built-in to your PC, the type will depend on available slots - check the motherboard information. Regards

This is a LAPTOP. But, yes if your new TV/Monitor does not have a VGA connector then you will need a VGA (Small Blue Connector) to HDMI dongle to connect to the back of your laptop. Your laptop may have a DVI (Large White connector) connector then a DVI to HDMI dongle will work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI http://www.google.com/products?hl=e...

Hey guys, I dont have a laptop. Im talking about my pc connecting to my monitor, the monitor is also a tv and has hdmi/scart/vga cables, I will check if my tv has a dvi connector but i dont think it does.

Hi Ace_Omega, What I read was that this was a second monitor to a PC add my new tv/monitor as my secondary monitor to my pc and it was to be similar to the second monitor on a laptop - hence my response. Anyway, Spectacular1 will hopefully reply and confirm whether this is a second monitor for a laptop or for a PC. As you say, if the 'monitor' is a TV then either a card with HDMI or a converter to HDMI. Regards

then why did you say... "when you add a second monitor to your laptop as an " ??? Oh ok my mistake I miss under stood.