Computer Help ! ( Dual Monitors )
 

Ok, I have a Geforce 6600GT, AGP, 128mb w/DVI out. I turn off the computer, plug both monitors in, fire up the computer, both turn on, but my secondary goes idle ? instead of a green light, its orange and it doesnt turn on. I can go into the advanced settings, and switch each monitor to be primary, and they'll both fire up, so the monitor isnt a dud. Im running out of ideas, I have the newest drivers too. HELP !

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Right click on your desktop and see if there is a menu that allows to you play between switched and shared monitors.

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Did you look through them? Maybe NVIDIA display?

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It gives me 2 things, the monitor names and when I click them, I get to this:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...sakes14141.jpg

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---- I don't know then. Your ---- ain't nothing like mine. Took me a while to get the monitor ---- figured out. Try pressing Fn+F8 and Fn+ all your other F keys

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Thanks anyway.

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Try turning your temperature setting to ice cold

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Get fucked.

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i dunno if its just mine, but when i use dual monitor, i have to drag it from my desk top all the way to the right and it shows up on the 2nd monitor lol. try that

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what ? explain that again.

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ok, hook up your second monitor. make sure resoluionts are good n what no through ur computer. open windows media player on ur computer, b4 you expand it to full screen... click on the main bar so you can move it around, and drag it ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT OFF UR SCREEN, it should end up on ur second screen lol. sounds weird but it works. try it n let me know

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there's yer problem.



well, when i switch to dual monitors all i do is switch the drop down and it works like pro, don't even need to restart the comp or anything
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/8317/duals4eh.jpg

maybe somethings kinked with your settings? or the monitor is f'ed? try switching them and use the 17" as primary, just to see if it works

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I set the 17 as primary, and it still didnt work. I think this video card is fucked.

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wow. first off... do you wantr an extended desktop? do you want two desktops? what do you want? i dont know man. this is pretty hard to screw up. someone like buk could ---- it up but i dont know. just reboot the computer, and reset the settings, and reboot again. hopefully, this will revert to a stock config and make both monitors display the same desktop.

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im pretty sure he wants extended.. wtf is the point of displaying the same thing on 2 monitors (on a home PC that is)

full screen gaming with aim windows and music in the next monitor ftw :6

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thats what i wanna do. Kain help me out.

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its awesome, as long as you've got everything in the other monitor alt+tab just makes the mouse able to goto the next monitor :6

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blah blah, stfu. im pissed and chain smoking now.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...b101/wtf88.jpg

which do i choose?

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Travis ---- your ------- crows that lay in you sig, I was swattin at them bitches before I realized they weren't gnats. Canadians should all be hung, you first.

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you want the morgue or the hospital first ?

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you CANT do that. i know cus sooo many people have tried it cant be done. the game actually has to have code written to support multiple displays, like most flight simulators. alls i know is this, the new sli cards have a hard time doing it, and still, you might aswell get another computer for that and run them through a multiplexor. no matter how many times you try, you cant have a game or even a full screen video play on one screen and the desktop on the other. if you try to do it it wiill show on the proimary display, and the seccondary will just be blank.

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I always use dual veiw and mine works fine...

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kain, you're a dumb ----. i gave spenser my 9600 pro, and he can do it, so you're on crizzack

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word i was playing battlefield2 and cod2 all day with aim, xfire, msn and hmt on the other monitor....

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:y

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well... hm... that beats me. maybee its something dealing with specific cards. my brothers brand new ati card wont do that ----, or my old gforce 3.

hell... even the new sli cards ive delt with didnt do that. meh whatever. i dont play games that much so i dont care.

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well i had a faulty card, go figure.

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so it's working now?

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faulty card? hm....... give it me.

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no, get fucked. i exchanged it for a different one.