monitor setup

Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing well! I've been considering upgrading my monitor setup recently, and I'm really intrigued by the idea of transitioning to an ultrawide curved monitor. Before taking the plunge, I'd love to hear from those of you who have already made the switch...

Hi, I want to use my DVI cable instead of my VGA cable to connect my monitor to my Ubuntu 20.04 setup which has a graphics card that outputs VGA, DVI and HDMI, however upon use of the VGA and HDMI things look fine on the login screen and I can clearly see where to type the password, however...

Hi Forum so I plug my laptop into an external monitor, laptop res is standard 1366x768, monitor res is standard 1280x1024. I have my monitor windows taking up roughly the lower 3/4 of the desktop - I have a 2 inch gap at the top where I can see icons when I disconnect the monitor, the windows...

So last day my mouse pointer changed shape in to 2 purple/red symbols like these + + or [ ] And i did not do anything to make it broken. The only thing i did was to change my monitor to a pg27uq 4 k monitor from asus. I have never seen this before and i tryed to reinstall video...

Hi , I am running a dell xps 8500 machine, i7 processor ,. 12 gb of ram, solid state ssd. I have a calibrated monitor hplp2275 on my computer, calibrated using ey one. I hooked up my tv to the external hdmi plug on the main board, not the add on graphics card and it plays well. The tv looks...

Hi! I need help with my LG monitor. It seems that it doesn't want to display any image although it's lighted blue. Any help would be gladly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I run 3x monitors. On the third monitor a small 7" which is actually inside my case I want to display a program that shows temps, fan speed, etc... Regardless, anytime the system goes to sleep, powers off OR something takes control of the video such as a game launch in fullscreen windows moves...

After changing the video card the second monitor does not show up in screen resolution & both screens show the same thing. How do I get the screen resolution to show both screens like before so that I can select what shows up in the second screen. Home build, Asus P5K Premium WiFi,Intel, CPU...

Hi all, I'm having an issue and nowhere on the internet I can find people exclaiming the same problem, so here I go: My primary gaming monitor is connected through DVI (144hz). My secondary monitor is connected through HDMI (TV). The gaming monitor is great for gaming, of course, and the...

I am trying to dual monitor my hpe 235f, it has 3 ports a hdmi, dvi and other. 2 can be used at the same time with the graphics card i have and disables the onboard vga and dvi. Unfortunately the monitor I'm hooking up is older and only has dvi and vga, the current monitor has the same. Bought...

I have a VAIO laptop running Windows 7 with two monitors connected. One monitor is connected through the VGA port, the other is connected to the HDMI port. Both monitors are identical, and the one that is connected to the HDMI port is connected using an HDMI/VGA adaptor. I've been trying to set...

My pc has got two monitors with a keyboard and a mouse where I have additional ones lying around. I thought it would be great if I could work on one monitor while my brother uses the other one. I found softxpand on this site http://www.miniframe.com but the installation does not work, I already...

Hi, I just logged onto my computer and all my icons are about 3x as wide as they should be: Link Removed Never seen this before and a Google search showed up with nothing. Anyone have any ideas? Things I've tried: Rebooting Changing to a single monitor setup (I use three) All combinations...

Using dual monitors set to extended in Windows 8.0 the charms bar would extend to right side of the rightmost screen (right most part of the extended desktop) this was great because it kept it well out of my way. In Windows 8.1 it seems that no matter what I do it is stuck on the screen that...

Connected Win 8 PC to TX-L42E6B TV using HDMI cable. BIOS screen shows then it goes black when the OS loads. Added a dumb monitor on VGA. That stays black during initial boot, but becomes the monitor as soon as Windows starts. Going into Screen resolution only shows one screen (the old...

Ever since I upgraded my video card (EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost), I haven't been able to get both of my monitors on the desktop to work the way that I want. Nothing is wrong with either monitor, but my secondary monitor is an old Dell VGA LCD, which I've only gotten to work on this card when...

Need help choosing Graphics Card Time for another PC build. I have the following components (listed below) ordered from Newegg for my new build. I need advice on getting the best graphics card for my needs. I am NOT a gamer. I currently have (3) monitors on my main PC, and this new build...

Hello, I have a 3 monitor setup with extended displays. However, when I change windows by using the TaskBar to a window that is not on my main display, it periodically repositions the window to whatever the main display is set at (changes screens). I've tried changing which monitor is the...

I'm trying to hook up three monitors to my XFX 7850. From what I've read you need an active display port adapter to accomplish this with two DVIs and one display port to DVI. I have 3 dell p2310H monitors and they all have display ports. If I hook two of them up to the display ports using a...

hi i am tryin to setup dual monitors on my zoostorm pc. i have connected 1 monitor on the vga port and the other on the dvi port. at the moment i have the same display on both screens. my system only recognises 1 screen - generic PnP monitor on standard vga graphics adapter do i need to...