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April 14th, 2007 15:00

dualview with default screen on external lcd

Hello, I have an inspiron 9400 and an external monitor with nvidia 7900gs.

I use dualview but i cannot set the external monitor as default primary display.

I tried everything but no way. Any help is welcome!

Message Edited by acemtp on 04-14-2007 11:17 AM
  • pmb76

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    Posted April 15th, 2007 10:00

    Its kinda tricky, but you really have to play around with it.
     
    I believe you are trying to make it work with POWERPOINT.
     
    Its a feature under the SLIDE SHOW toolbar....click SET UP SHOW...
    look for the item MULTIPLE MONITORS.... this should do it.
     
    Of course you have to set your video to dual or extended desktop
     
     
    Hope this helps....
  • acemtp

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    Posted April 16th, 2007 07:00

    It s not what i want to do. I don't use powerpoint.

    I just want to use the laptop monitor as secondary monitor (to display some backgroup stats for example) and the external lcd as primary one (to program for instance).
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    Posted April 28th, 2007 14:00

    I have the Intel video card and was able to spread programs across two monitors from my E1705 laptop. I'm sure if you click properties from your desktop screen and choose your graphic settings, Nvidia will have a dual monitor setting. Then you choose whether to have a clone of your screen or extended desktop. With the intel card/chip, I can choose which monitor is primary and secondary and also dictate the screen resolution for each monitor/laptop screen. Nvidia is a much better card, I can only assume it would have greater options then the intel chip.
      I do music recording on my laptop, I use "Cubase" I spread the entire program across to the second monitor then open and run the toolbars and mixers on the second screen. Recording graphs on the primary. I'm sure you can send like a email program to one monitor and a apliication on another, especially with a Nvidia card.
     It can be done, you just have to fiddle with it. maybe hook up your second monitor then reboot so the card see it for sure.
      Good luck, its pretty cool when it all works out with dual monitors. I only wish the second monitor could be hooked up wirelessly.
    -Dez
  • acemtp

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    Posted April 28th, 2007 14:00

    Thank for the response,

    I can setup clone screen and extended screen in NVidia panel but in extended (dualview) screen, I cannot set the external monitor as the primary (the option is grayed). So even if I can manually put the start menu bar on the external monitor, all other stuffs like "ALT TAB" window and popup windows are still displayed on the laptop monitor. That's a pain because the lcd monitor is very far from me and I only use it to display some big statistics.

    Regards,

    Vianney Lecroart