external monitor

I'm trying to locate a gadget or tool that will allow me to see logical hard drive(s) activity through icon(s) in the system tray. All I want to see is activity, no graphs or stats needed. I've tried HDDLed and either I can't understand the doc or the doc doesn't allow for a W7 Pro-64 Lenovo...

I would like to set up dual monitors. I have a laptop right now that has one 22 inch monitor connected via a vga cable. I only have one vga output, however I do also have an hdmi output on my laptop as well. Would I be able to have a dual monitor setup with one monitor connected via vga...

I get a bluescreen saying something about restarting a graphics driver and then the computer restarts itself, didn't get a screenie yet! The driver I'm using is the latest for my graphics card, and did work fine until: My laptop's screen died I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers in safemode...

I re-loaded Windows 7 on my Sony VGN FZ290 and now there is no external monitor available. I went to the settings under display and it only shows one monitor available. Shift FN and F7 does nothing as well. Thanks jorge

Since I've installed Windows 7, whenever I switch back from using an external monitor (I hook up to my TV to watch movies), it seems like a shortcut key is on... hard to describe. When I type, for example 't', it minimizes Firefox and brings up my task bar. This happens for almost every letter...

I've been using Windows 7 64-bit on my Thinkpad X61 for several months without problem. (I am up to date with the released version of the OS). Recently, it started booting into very low resolution mode -- only about a quarter of the welcome screen is visible. Within this small view, the mouse...

Hi I am totally new to the forum and Windows 7 as of yesterday. My problem is I had an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC (im not quite sure the model number) and I used an external HP monitor with it when i ran vista. After i used an update disc to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate my external...

I just installed windows 7 64 bit on my Dell latitude E5400. I noticed that there is an Intel GM45/GE45/GS45 Integrated Graphics inside, but I can not find the right driver for this anywhere. I'm using this laptop at work, so I would need the driver in order to be able to connect to an external...

hello guys im having problems with windows 7, ok i have my laptop hooked up to a tv and set for so its link together so just another monitor set up, so the problem is that my mouse wont go over to the other screen and if somehow it goes to the other screen i can get it back to the main screen...

In attempting to connect my laptop to my TV using the VGA output to the RGB input, I accidentally it up to display only on the external monitor. This wouldn't be a problem, but the image on the TV is garbled and unusable. I would like to turn this off, but I have no options to do so unless the...

When the PC ran under Vista, it worked with a HDMI connection to a Panasonic TV I perform a clean install to Windows 7 Professional The HDMI connection no longer works with any TV and not even to an external monitor

Hi I have just bought a Dell 1645 Studio laptop - actually two. I returned the first one because it constantly froze. The second one is doing the same thing. It does it about twice per day and I cannot pinpoint the reason for it freezing. I can be working on a document, moving between...

Hi, I'm running 64-bit Windows 7. Last night my computer was fine, and I just booted up today to find that whenever I run programs, they don't show up on the taskbar. I have two monitors, one is my laptops screen and the other an external one. If I drag the applications to my laptop screen...

I am running Windows 7 on a dell Inspiron 1520 with a Nvidia card. The notebook's monitor is working perfectly. I've added a new Asus VH222 but Windows 7 doesn't appear to see it, and the monitor gives me an "Our of Range" error message when I attempt to transfer the signal with Fn+F8. Any ideas?

I am not too sure whether this was a TMM problem or was it my graphics card... But I am sure that when i had TMM disabled in Vista it fixed this issue so in Windows 7 right now, whenever I close my laptop lid (while connected to an external monitor) it moves my desktop to the the external...

Hi everyone, I've installed windows7 everyone so far flawlessly on my desktops at home and now I've come to a specific problem which I cant seem to figure out The laptop is a BenQ Joybook 6000N with a 1.6 processor, 1.5GB ram and 40gb space. I have windows 7 ultimate x86 dvd which I've used...

Hello I am used to using a dual screen setup with my asus z96j laptop. I have a secondary viewsonic display attached to my vga port. After installing windows 7 i have noticed, that after my main screen is turned off (such as when my computer goes to sleep, or when the lid is closed) it would...

Hi, I have a z61t running Windows 7 Professional on BIOS 2.27. I have a problem that only occurs when I am connected to an external display. When I close the laptop lid, I want it to stay in the external display mode so that my desktop does not jump over to the external display. This used...

I currently have a macbook pro 15 inch 2.5 ghz with which I have been utilizing both Windows and OS. The external monitor has always worked on both systems but now that I upgraded to window's 7 it doesn't seem to work anymore. I do remember that when the monitor was ever reconnected I had to go...

Running Windows 7 Ultimate. I wanted to connect my laptop to an external monitor so I pressed "Windows key + X", then clicked "connect display", then "extend." On most computers, doing this will allow you to output the display to another monitor. When I did it on my laptop, the screen started...