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So a friend of mine has just hooked up two LCD monitors to his Vista machine. Apparently Vista detects both displays, but the second monitor remains blank, in sleep mode.
Now, I did the same thing about three days ago and had the same issue but for the life of me I can't remember how I resolved it - I just tinkered around a bit and eventually got it to work. It escapes me how I did it so I can't walk him through it. :oops:
The monitors are not identical, one is a much newer widescreen and the secondary display is an older model, so could it be an issue of Vista trying to run both monitors at a resolution or a refresh rate that is higher than the native resolution of the older display?
He's running an 8800GT with what I think are the latest drivers.
I think, but I could be wrong, that you need to mess with the video card drivers, not Vista directly, to deal with multiple monitors. I know that nVidia drivers have an option for multiple monitors.
I went round there and had a look at it: Nvidia control panel worked perfectly when using a DVI adapter that I'd brought from home. The one he'd bought from eBay, not a thing.
Looking at it, his had 24 pins which makes it a DVI-D adapter, the one I brought from home had two groups of 9 pins (which I believe is a DVI-A) - he's just gonna grab a new adapter from somewhere.
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Looking at it, his had 24 pins which makes it a DVI-D adapter, the one I brought from home had two groups of 9 pins (which I believe is a DVI-A) - he's just gonna grab a new adapter from somewhere.
Solved, thanks.