Extra monitor for a laptop

[Sark79]

I bought a monitor today. I have set it up and now have identical screens on both my laptop and the new monitor.

I was wondering if any kind person could explain. 1. How do I use one screen for something and one for the other?
                                                                     2. When I went on pokerstars and tried to play 4 tables . I saw the same tables
                                                                         overlapping on both screens...help?

My computer seemed slower when starting up.  Is this normal?


Thanks in advance

[Sark79]

I had a look back through the previous replys in this section. But I am still confused.

Forgive me, I am a simple country person 

Something freaky is happening. I can drag things off the screen.  But this happens on both screens exactly the same.

thanks

[AndrewT]

Have a look here - this might help.

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20040712/techspace01.shtml

[Sark79]

Ok, fiigured it out.

This is cool.  I feel like I have just seen a wheel for the first time  

Any suggestions how to play 2 tables on each screen  without an overlap.

thanks

[Sark79]

Thanks Andrew,

I read this site after you posted it.  By pure luck I managed to do all the things it suggested before reading it.

However by going back through the set-up using this site, I was able to actually see what I had done.

I am useless with these things, and usually press things untill it works .  Or breaks.   

I appreciate your help.

[I, Zimbra]

Ok, I have a problem: can anyone please point me in the right direction? 

I recently connected an old CRT monitor to my laptop; with the aim of doing precisely as this thread suggests - i.e. extend the desktop over both screens.

At the moment, my laptop has recognised the monitor, because the same image is appearing on both the laptop's flat screen and the CRT Monitor's display.

However, when I go to "Display > Settings", I get this coming up:

Display:
(Multiple Monitors) on Graphics ProSavageDDR

...with just one monitor icon above it. Not two. And no way to seemingly separate the screens.

My laptop does run XP - but am I correct in thinking the graphics card in this laptop is not sophisticated enough to handle two monitors?

Or am I still doing something wrong?



Thanks,
Z.

[I, Zimbra]

BUMP


I mean...


HELP


I mean...


BUHELMP



buggrit, you lot know what I mean... 

[stallyon]

right click on your desktop and select properties. then on the display properties window go to the settings tab. on here you should see 2 monitors (if your graphics card supports it). click on monitor 2 and then tick extend my windows desktop onto this monitor and then apply. if your graphics card supports dual monitor then this will sort it.

Nic

[dik9]

so you've clicked on blank area on desktop and gone to properties     then settings   it should give you a picture of monitors 1 and 2 is that right? under there there should be a little arrow after you clicked it it it should say default or give you another option? am i right so far?

[dik9]

lol sorry


Jinx 123

[I, Zimbra]

No, I only get one monitor on my Display Properties screen, despite it saying 'Multiple Monitors' beneath that.

I tried to post a picture but the file was too large...

[I, Zimbra]

hang on...


guess this means the laptop's too old then?


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[dik9]

Looks like its the graphics card that needs updating

[I, Zimbra]

Updating the graphics card - is that something I can do meself?

I.e. unscrew the back and slot another one in?

And is it expensive?

By which I mean - more expensive than getting a graphics card for a desktop?

Y'see - I had to replace the hard drive a year or so ago, and that was expensive, for this laptop (I had to get one direct from the manufacturer)... because I couldn't use a regular desktop hard drive, it wouldn't have fitted the slot for the laptop.

For some reason, Desktop 80Gb hard drives were £80 (at the time), but I had to spend around £300 just to get a 20Gb Laptop HDD. Was v. annoying...

[dik9]

you can do it yourself but i am no techy. The price depends on the card/quality you want.
Just as a matter of interest what is the processor speed and ram memory? It may be cheaper to buy a new laptop if all these need upgrading. £300 for 20gig seems a little expensive even if it was last year.

My graphicscard is now out of date suggest a 256 now but your properties should look a bit like this


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