i bought an 24 acer monitor (P244W) today and tried connecting it to my laptop. I only have vga so i hooked that up. and obviously the power chord is in. so when im on my laptop and press Fn+CRT/LCD it goes to my lcd monitor, activates it but nothing shows up. i tried all the different resloutions and stuff but nuthing worked it just black.
There are two ways to do two screens 1 is through windows properties and this is the normal way except when it doesn't work 2. the other is through the video card settings and need to do it this way as the video card seems to be stronger and overalls windows. 1. to do windows way right click empty desktop space properties settings. set display to multiple settings and tick the box extend windows You can drag the monitors in the screen to swap them over and chose which one is 1 and 2. You need to get them in correct order so the mouse moves over correctly. Click the little monitor window to select which one you want primary. Select a resolution so the little monitor is the same shape as the actual screen. If you cant find the correct shape and a nice resolution, then you need to update the video card driver. this will give more choices. 2 If the above doesn't stay there when you reboot, then it means the graphic card is king. Find the graphic card symbol in the sys tray right click in there you can set it up similar to above. If the icon is not in the sys tray you can access it in 1 above, click advance click the graphics card tab.
i'm hoping yu have observed that the Samsung SyncMaster P2370 incorporates in basic terms DVI as a connection selection and no S-Video and yu are employing an identical. The Samsung SyncMaster P2370HD incorporates one HDMI port too. attempt that if yu have the ports on yur tower.
