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I'm a PC gamer, and my dual screens would work great for an online game that has dual screen set up options in game. I have an Alienware M15x laptop, with a Toshiba 19 inch screen hooked up via VGA cable + audio. I have it already set up to extend so i can go between the two seperate desktop...

i hope i am asking the right question.... on my laptop, i can plugin my lcd tv and dual screen. i setup a video game to load on screen 2 (the lcd tv) and the desktop stays on screen 1. when i went to play the game on screen 2, and actively used the mouse on screen 1, i lost control of the...

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...

Hello, I've recently switched from Windows Vista to Windows 7 x64. I use the word switched instead of upgraded because I formatted my old drive instead of installing over Vista. I have been using two screens for forever now, both LG Flatron L1750HQ, both are digital and have served me well. My...

I am trying to use wmp 12 as i did with older version on windows and wmp 11 and below.i have a monitor and a tv connected into the ati 3850 GPU(latest drivers installed). I used to make the desktop extend and select from ati catalyst to play video in secondary screen always full mode and with...

Trying to get this working.... new to forum, so please point me to the right place if I am not asking in the correct forum. I have a Dell XPS 410 system with a NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2. (Dual Port DVI Card) Dual Dell 30" Monitors 3007WFP. System worked great on XP. No issues at all...

Hi, From last 1 week, my computer is driving me crazy with random blue screen of deaths when ever I use it in a dual screen mode. This happens only if I use my 22 inch and 19 inch monitors. If I use my 22 in and the laptop screen, i haven't noticed this problem. Attached are the dump files...

Windows 7 dectects primary monitor HF229 correctly with 1680x1050 res. Second monitor is same HF229 but detects it as Generic PNP Monitor with max resolution of 1600x1200. Having flicker problems at lower than 75mhz and 1680x1050 on either monitor. How can I get 2nd monitor to display...

NOTE: I placed this in hardware, but I have a feeling this is a software issue... And yes, updated drivers WERE used. Alrighty, I guess I'll get this started off with what my issue is in it's most basic form. I have a dual monitor set-up on my system, a 24 inch widescreen dell LCD monitor...

Hello all. I have two monitors, one is a HD and one is regular flat screen one. My main monitor is perfectly fine(HD monitor). But my 2nd screen is not working right. Basicly it's fine but the color is messed up. The color is all blured to the right and is green. If i take a screen shot of the...

is taking the wraps off some major changes to its Catalyst drivers today. These monthly graphics driver updates usually focus on minor tweaks, bug fixes, and performance improvements, but this month and next month will usher in some singificant new features. Catalyst 10.2 should be avialbe...

I have an HD Radeon 4670 with two DVI slots and one S-Video. i have a 22" monitor plugged into each of the DVI's and a 19" tv on the S-Video. I can get any combination of two screens to work but i absolutely cannot get all three to work at the same time. Is this setup actually possible?

I have two monitors which are connected by one dual cable. I have tried to run the extender but Windows 7 is not detecting the second monitor. The colours on the display are not right either now. One monitor is an Acer X193HQ and the other is a AOC N20WB. Can anyone help me set up the dual...

Greetings! I have a Dell Latitude D810 with a newly installed Windows 7 Professional. Prior to my install, I was using UltraMon with my dual monitor setup (with a profile for home and a profile for work). After the install, everything went very smoothly getting my dual monitor setup back to how...

Using Win 7 64X 8800 gt Logitech G9 Have two monitors setup and when I'm playing games like L4D2 or TF2 the mouse does not stay focused on the game in full screen mode, if I drag to the right I can see the cursor some times on the second screen, the reason it is an issue is that when the mouse...

Hi Guys my first post here - hopefully I have put it in the right thread? I have just upgraded to Windows 7 on my Sony VGN-Z11VN laptop. I did the upgrade whilst the laptop was in it's docking station. Connected to the docking station was another monitor (HP L2245WG) Once I completed all...

Hello All, I have 3 monitors, the middle one is set as my primary monitor and the 2 at each side are extended desktops. All my icon's sit on the middle monitor including my start menu as it's set to the primary monitor. My problem is that when I download anything to desktop it doesn't download...

hi reinstalled win 7 and im having a hard time setting up my panasonic plasma tv as my 2nd monitor. my primary monitor is a viewsonic lcd monitor which works fine but windows 7 and/or nvidia cannot detect my plasma tv. i have a gtx285 dual dvi vidcard with the latest nvidia driver. used the same...

OK I've read a few people having this issue but none of the solutions have worked for me. Issue: Blank (black) desktop upon logging in. The only things showing on the desktop is the cursor and the build info in the lower right. No icons, no taskbar. I can launch programs via the task manager...

I am a rank amateur first of all. I just installed windows 7 on my laptop which is a dual core, 2gb memory compaq. It works flawlessly and I love it. Well, I am nearing an upgrade to my pc, which is just a bit outdated. It's specs are as follows: Pentium 4: 2.19 ghz 1.5 gb memory I have two...