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External monitor on laptop with GeForce4 440 Go
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Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've just bought a new Mitsubishi 19" Diamond Plus 93SB CRT external monitor to be used with my relatively new laptop, which has a GeForce4 440 Go (64Mb) video card. Now, I intended to use this external monitor as the primary display device for the laptop permanently and then perhaps sometimes extend the desktop over the laptop display, using the laptop as secondary. For some reason my O/S (Windows XP Prof.) will only let me do it the other way around, i.e. the laptop display as primary with the desktop extended over the external CRT. XP has greyed out the 'Use this device as the primary monitor.' option for the external monitor, forcing it to be unchecked and has greyed it out also for the laptop LCD forcing it to be checked. I can't find anyway to get it to allow me to change this (what's the point in this option if you can't change it?). I have the latest monitor driver and also have the latest NVIDIA driver for my card (however NVIDIA's latest ForceWare 50 driver for some reason doesn't support my card, along with the GeForce2 Go also). Also, even though there are what look like monitor symbols on the function keys of the laptop (accessed by pressing a 'Fn' key at the same time as pressing the function keys), none of them succeed in switching between primary displays and there is no related option in the BIOS configuration... Also on a (probably) unrelated note, the display I have seen on the CRT from this laptop is of a rather low quality. It is exhibiting what I think is known as 'ghosting', which is especially noticeable in a text editor. It appears that under each character, it has a shadow shifted slightly (but very noticeably) to the right. However this is not the case when I connect this exact same monitor to one of my desktop machines (with a GeForce 2 GTS card). The monitor is near to no magnetic fields as far as I can tell and I'm using the supplied cable with no extensions/adaptors/convertors etc. I really though that setting this up as I wanted would be a simple task consisting of not much more than plugging the monitor in... can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong? Thanks, - -- Richard Hayden ) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 6.5.8ckt http://www.ipgpp.com/ Comment: KeyID: 0x779D0625 Comment: Fingerprint: 5642 852D 88BD BD0B 1A88 94B0 BFD2 C47C 779D 0625 iQA/AwUBP+Nt0r/SxHx3nQYlEQKcaACfenTpxx9q4uUMY1G4ngnabqem7ZQAoMih UMjj67/E1EMfOR9Li8I3Oxmf =XDgD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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