External monitor with laptop problem

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:25 pm

ok, so i want my laptop to display on my nice 21 inch sun monitor. It did this just fine for a long time by simply plugging it into the laptop, but then I tried experimenting with having both on at the same time. Before the 21 inch just displayed the same thing as the laptop screen and that was fine. But after I tried extending my desktop onto the external monitor (worked fine, but i didnt like it) I can't get my external monitor to act as a "primary" monitor anymore. It's just a desktop extension. The choice "use this device as primary monitor" is grayed out and I can't select it.

Any ideas?

thanks
birdseye

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 2:29 pm

delete the extended desktop profile and then plug the monitor back in it again......my brother had this exact problem.

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:11 pm

which is where

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 4:43 pm

what is the Video Adaptor? and what OS

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 5:28 pm

xp
geforcego 5200

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:55 pm

okay, XP, NVIDIA device....what drivers?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:12 pm

Brian. This may seem trivial to you as I'm sure you've already tried this. But on my notebook, I have to hit the function while hitting the monitor key (F4 in my case) to toggle between 3 settings.

1) Internal screen
2) External monitor
3) Internal screen and external monitor