TheFilmGod Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Is it possible to hook up a monitor to a laptop and use the monitor and the laptop's screen as a dual monitor image? I was hoping to use the monitor as the "browser / phpmyadmin" monitor and use the laptop's screen as the php file / html text editor monitor. This just seems so much more efficient. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Maybe... considering we have no idea what kind of laptop/OS/everything else you have...there's no way we can give you an answer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted July 23, 2008 Author Share Posted July 23, 2008 HP Pavilion tx2120us Entertainment Notebook PC OS -> Windows Vista Home Premium Graphics Card -> Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 (UMA) with up to 559MB total available graphics memory I/O Ports -> VGA, TV-Out (TV-out is S-Video) MONITOR input video -> VGA, DVI-D. HDCP enabled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Based on that info, you probably should be able to. Hook up your monitor, rightclick somewhere on your desktop properties > settings > advanced > monitor You may find some options for using both laptop monitor and plug and play monitor. Or look at the sub-menus from there. That's about the best I can do without having your laptop sitting in front of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 This should be possible, we have an HP laptop in our meeting room, the VGA port on that is hooked up to a projector and we use that as the second screen. I think I just went into the monitor settings, selected the newly detected display and hit the 'extend my desktop onto this display' checkbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerRobot Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Just tried it out on my dell. As soon as i plugged in the other monitor, it detected it and asked me what i wanted to do with it. Otherwise, the option is there from right clicking the desktop and clicking personalize->display settings (on vista). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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