2 Monitor set up

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eli2811

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Hey everyone,

pretty basic question here:

I have one monitor connected with a vga to my pc. I have a tv that is connected with a vga to my pc in another port.

Only one monitor seems to work at a time for some reason. Is there something I can do on my computer's settings to make it recognize both at the same time?

I do not want to split the screen, just to show the same screen on different monitors.

Thanks,
 
It's been a while since I've had a 2 monitor set up, but I want to say that you have to go in to Display settings and check "Extend the desktop to this monitor" for your second(non-primary) monitor. I remember having a similar problem with not having both monitors working at the same time, I just know that there was a simple solution in the Display settings, either there or your GPU software(i.e. Nvidia Control Panel).

Hopefully someone else can either verify or correct me as I'm not 100% sure since it's been a couple years for me with that set up. Good luck

Edit: Also wanted to say that I think the only time the same picture will show up on both monitors will be the desktop, you'll have to manually drag any windows/programs from the primary to the secondary. That is IIRC, there may be a way to "clone" the primary monitor so that it automatically shows the same thing on both. Again, hopefully someone can correct or verify this.
 
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Motox20 said:
It's been a while since I've had a 2 monitor set up, but I want to say that you have to go in to Display settings and check "Extend the desktop to this monitor" for your second(non-primary) monitor. I remember having a similar problem with not having both monitors working at the same time, I just know that there was a simple solution in the Display settings, either there or your GPU software(i.e. Nvidia Control Panel).

Hopefully someone else can either verify or correct me as I'm not 100% sure since it's been a couple years for me with that set up. Good luck

Edit: Also wanted to say that I think the only time the same picture will show up on both monitors will be the desktop, you'll have to manually drag any windows/programs from the primary to the secondary. That is IIRC, there may be a way to "clone" the primary monitor so that it automatically shows the same thing on both. Again, hopefully someone can correct or verify this.
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What he means is he wants each to be the same, which is more than possible, you just untick "extend my desktop" eh voilà, you have a "mirror image".

Assume port 1 is the monitor port (the working one) and 2 the non-working one

If you plug your monitor into port 2, does it work?

If you plug either display into port 2 and ONLY have port 2 populated, does it work?

Are you using port 1 and 2, or are you using a splittler, to make just one of the ports into 2 ports?

If you right click your destop and click display settings, then click detect, does it find the TV, but just not display it?
 
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