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Dual Monitors

  • 18-07-2009 5:13pm
    #1
    poolfc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭


    Hi Guys

    I have a vostro 220 and Im trying to connect two monitors.

    I have a 256MB DDR2 ATI RADEON HD 3650 graphics card, and I have the two monitors connected by a splitter cable, the one that has the dvi connect coming from the hard drive and splits into 1 monitor with the normal blue connection and the other monitor with a dvi connection. When I turn the screens on, only one monitor works the one with the normal blue connection. Any ideas

    Best regards


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  • #2
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,681 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    have you gone in the graphics properties and changed the settings

    should be a setting to expand the desktop to a second monitor


  • #3
    oisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭oisin


    The spliiter cable your using does not mirror an image on two displays. It allows you to have two displays connected to one source (i.e. projector and monitor) and to use one display or the other without having to connect or disconnect the cables.

    You need to use two separate cables, I presume your graphics card has two outputs (usually either two DVI or one DVI (white) and one VGA (blue)). So you need to get cables depending on the connections on your graphics card and monitors. You can also get adapters to convert from DVI to VGA if for instance your graphics card has DVI outputs and your monitor VGA. DVI is preferable as its digital whereas VGA is analogue.

    When you have it all connected up as Ghost Train said go into display settings and you can extend or duplicate the desktop.


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