ToasterMax Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 I have a dilema, I have two 19in lcd monitors that i have and I want to use them on my laptop. But the problem is that the laptop only has one vga output. Is this possible and how can i make it happen? The monitors have vga and dvi inputs. I really done want to use the small monitor screen any longer. Please, any help?
ringfinger Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 Can you use a VGA splitter? Does your laptop video card have enough memory to support 2 external monitors?
ToasterMax Posted August 12, 2005 Author Posted August 12, 2005 You mean like this?http://www.pacificcable.com/Picture_Page.asp?DataNAme=A15MFFI am not sure about the card. Will the other image be identical or can i make it spanning?
ringfinger Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 Yeah I mean like that. It depends on your video card if you can span it or not I would think. How old is the laptop, make, model? Once they're installed you can goto your display properties and click on the monitor #2 and check extend my desktop to this monitor to span it.
Zxian Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 I doubt that you're going to get this working. Having two monitors is usually the most that any one video card can handle. I know that my laptop runs a bit slower when I use an external monitor (32MB ATI Radeon 9200 Mobility), so I wouldn't even want to think about using a third monitor.Is the rest of the laptop's hardware really worth it to use two 19" monitors? What kind of stuff are you looking to do with the computer?
ringfinger Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 I thought he said he was done using the built-in laptop screen and just wanted to use the two 19s... maybe he was talking about another external monitor that was smaller than the 19s.. hmmm
Zxian Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 You can't really completely disable the laptop screen (at least on any laptop I've seen). The video cards are usually hardwired to the laptop screen and have extra settings built in for them (for display switching and such).
ToasterMax Posted August 12, 2005 Author Posted August 12, 2005 do you think an external video card might help?
Zxian Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 You'd probably take a big performance hit with an external video card. PCMCIA and USB simply don't provide the same bandwidth as a built in AGP connection (yes, even USB 2.0 isn't fast enough).How big is your screen by the way?
ToasterMax Posted August 12, 2005 Author Posted August 12, 2005 laptop screen is about 12in. the lcd monitors are both 19in each.
Zxian Posted August 12, 2005 Posted August 12, 2005 Eep... now I understand why you'd want to use an external monitor. I'd say just use one of the monitors as your primary. Most laptop video cards can barely handle two independent displays well anyways.
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