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Duel monitors on windows vista
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im having some trouble setting up 2 monitors on windows vista, can anyone help me?
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does your video card support dual monitors?
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does your video card support dual monitors? that's kind of important...
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your video card may not support dual monitors...
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yes i know that matters, and tell you the truth im not sure, so i go to display settings and click on the 2nd monitor (right nows its grey out saying its not hooked in) and the click the box that says extend the desktop onto this monitor then click apple, after this the 2nd montior just goes back to the grey and it doesnt do anything
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ya dude check your video card, make sure it can handle dual monitors
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anyone know if Radeon X1300/X1550 Series could run duel monitors?
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nvm im pretty sure it can, but idk why its not working
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I'm pretty sure I have a Radeon X1550 and I can run multiple moniters on it. You are on a desktop I presume?
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i bet its vista...
i couldnt do it when i had mine
it would work for like a minute
then screw up and the screen would like cut itself in half
xp works fine though
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Hmm I'm trying to think of the command you would have to use. I'm running a laptop and I can connect another monitor to it alongside my screen, and I hit the function + F5 key to get it to work. Have you tried changing your display settings in control panel as well? There might be something in there, I don't know, I have little to no experience with Vista.
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check to see if your drivers are current does the card have dual outputs or are you using the card and a built in output on the motherboard? if its the second case, the output on the motherboard might have been disabled. go to control panel/system/device manager and look under display adaptors and then monitors, making sure neither is disabled
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have you re-checked your video card?
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hmmm my guess is that your video card is the source of the problem.
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Vista is really messed up sometimes. In fact, it can be rather frustrating. gahhh.
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since were on this topic, ive got a video card with a vga plug, and my computer has one can i do dual monitors like that?
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you could plug in two monitors, but it would be the same thing on both, you couldnt set up a daul desktop where you can move your mouse from one to the other and have double the worskspace tho unless, like it was said before, you have a vid card that supports dual
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O that sucks, thanks for the help
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just use the help and support. I had this problem and you have to go to there and it tells you where to go and then you click check for other monitors and it finds them.
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i dont know much about radeon cards.. i always use nvidia.
but i'm guessing the problem is Vista.. it sucks.
i have a geforce 7950GT, and it can run dual monitors on XP
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yea i wanna get rid of vista and get Xp becasue i dont like vista at all, i heard its kinda hard to do that tthough
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Not really..reformat your hard drive and install a different OS other than Vista. Pretty easy.
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Hard to do without losing all of your information.
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Errr well that is what Reformatting is after all. That's why you backup anything that is important.
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Plus, if you have a large enough hard drive you can always partition it and install xp on a separate partition, and boot off of that one.
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I know, that's why I have 5 partions. Formating is yes but he didn't ask how to format his hard drive. He asked if there was a way to get a different os.
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..and I told him. He can either reformat or partition, or else he's stuck with Vista. I don't get why you are arguing with that? Haha whatever..
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yo not sure what's going on with your set up, but ive got dual monitors on vista and it wasn't really hard to set up, so it might be your card.
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Make sure you update your drivers and stuff for you video card too. Get the catalyst control center if you can, I use it for my X1400 and I like it alot. If you have that, then all you have to do is click the monitor #2 on display manager and it will enable it as an extended desktop onto your second monitor.
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the wierdest crap just happened, i downlaoded catalyst to see if that would help and when it was done i had to restart my comptuer so i did and when it restarted i didnt restart on my main screen, but on my other screen and said that plug the cord in or make sure it is and restart the computer
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windows vista can be pretty dificult sometimes. it's all about tricking it into what you want to do.
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It probably has your new moniter set as your default one now. Switch them, and then enable the extended desktop.
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Uh I beleive you're talking about macs. Mac's are like dogs, they do their own thing until you can trick it into getting back into the car. Vista is like a cat. It never does anything you want.
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haha well, i just have to play around with mine until it does what i want. i havent had any serious problems yet. just little annoyances.
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