Dual monitor help

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I recently purchased a new laptop Hard drive (since the old one was broken) and put windows xp media center (SP 2) on it. When I connect an external monitor, i have to restart and then it boots up with both monitors showing the same exact thing. I went into where you set the monitors up, and it acts as if there wasnt a 2nd monitor at all.

I know my laptop can handle it; before i replaced the HD it worked dual monitors just fine.

I might need to install drivers or something. I don't know... please provide links for drivers and stuff.

Please help! :(
 
We can't provide links to drivers without knowing what laptop/GPU you have. My guess is you simply are using the built-in drivers. Find the make of your card and download the drivers from the manufacturer's website.
 
The_Other_One said:
We can't provide links to drivers without knowing what laptop/GPU you have. My guess is you simply are using the built-in drivers. Find the make of your card and download the drivers from the manufacturer's website.
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I just tried seeing what graphics card i have; it just looks like a big yellow question mark with a little exclamation mark next to it. It's name is "Video Controler".

I tried looking online to see my computer specs, but i found nothing. My laptop is a 4542GP gateway notebook.
 
oscaryu1 said:
I think those external ports were only for the clone view... You use it if your LCD is down or cracked...
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As he said, he used them as duel view in the past. Besides, it all depends on the laptop. Mine, with a crappy SIS GPU/Chipset even supports duel view!

ADHD said:
That doesn't say it, but i found something that says it has Intel extreme graphics 2.
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Not to sound like an ass, but I'm not going to hold your hand and do everything for you... The link I posted says it's for your laptop, and under drivers there are two "Video downloads". And now that you seem to know the chipset, you could easily find other drivers elsewhere.
 
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