RlCO 0 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 My laptop has a monitor socket on the back, Ive plugged in a flat screen and nada, no signal. Why doesn't it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Have you pressed the relevant F key to change the output? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RlCO 0 Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 Have you pressed the relevant F key to change the output? You're a star. Give this man 10 cool points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RlCO 0 Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 It has 3 modes, here, there or both. Excellent. For 100 cool points (probably impossible), can I run two accounts/windows on the two screens. I probably need a dual mode adapter right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 yeah, as far as I know you'd need a dual monitor output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6703 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Depends on the laptop and the performance of the graphics card you have in it. Matrox do some little box that plugs into the RGB port on the back of your laptop and you can hang two monitors off it but the quality of it is shit - doesn't allow for windows to 'snap' into each screen and you find that the start bar cascades across both screens (rather than just sit on the left hand one) and rather than the dialog boxes appear in the centre of one screen, the appear half and half across the pair of them. It's as though you have one massive monitor cut in two. Don't know about other manufacturers, but Dell do a port replicator which has both an RGB and DVI input on the back and you can hang one analog and one digital monitor off the back of it with great picture quality. It's what I use at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 10 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 It has 3 modes, here, there or both. Excellent. For 100 cool points (probably impossible), can I run two accounts/windows on the two screens. I probably need a dual mode adapter right? Are you meaning you logged in to one monitor and something else logged into the other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7336 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 If you are going to sit at a desk and plug it into a monitor it kind of defeats the puropse of being a laptop doesnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6703 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 If you are going to sit at a desk and plug it into a monitor it kind of defeats the puropse of being a laptop doesnt it? Not especially. Our company has many, many offices and I could be working in a different one at any point given the work I do. I do have a permanent place of work though and a desk and docking station installed there. I'd rather access a laptop through a docking station if i have the choice. Also means that others with the same laptop can 'dock in' on my desk when i'm not there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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