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Two screens?

  • 11-11-2008 12:40am
    #1
    Justlookin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭


    Not 100% where to put this thread but here seems reasonable enough. I have an inspiron 1525 and a monitor left over from my broken desktop computer :( (only broke two weeks ago). I was just wondering if i'd be able to connect to two? i had a friend once who managed to connect two monitors on the one computer and was wondering if i'd be able to do that with the laptop and monitor? Would anyone know who i'd go about doing that? And would both screens just display the same thigs or could i seperate them ie have different windows opened in each eg windows media player on one and wikipedia on the other? Any advice would be a real help :-)


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Well plugging your monitor into the vga out on the laptop should display what you see on your desktop, i'm pretty sure to get true dual screen monitors you'd need a graphics card with support for dual monitors, ie, dual outputs.

    EDIT: Thoie's right, so you can extend your desktop onto the second monitor. You learn something new every day!


  • #3
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    I did it the other day for a friend - no problem if you're running windows. Under the "monitor setup" or something under Display properties, you can tell it there's two monitors, and how you want it to work. His was an Inspiron 5100 running XP.

    Say the "real" monitor is on the left, and the laptop on the right, just tell it which is which and click the "extend the desktop onto this monitor". Then you can drag your wiki window to one monitor and have something else in another, no problem.


  • #4
    Justlookin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭Justlookin


    Wow thanks for the help that was so easy its scary :):) Though doing it myself would have baffled me :) currently have kings of leon 'ragoo' on my right and boards on my left :) so happy:D


  • #5
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    Glad I could help - it stumped me for a while too!


  • #6
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,032 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    One thing I used to do at work was to rotate the second monitor 90 degrees, so that it was in "portrait mode". I could tell the graphics config. that it was rotated, so that text looked normal. It was excellent for reading documents on PDF, or most web browsing - reading a whole A4 page at a time with ease.

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