[jjallenjj]

Purchased a new monitor for my laptop yesterday. I wish to run dual screens with the laptop screen. I have the monitor plugged in and when I go to the display monitor screen only the external shows up and theirs no dual monitor option. When I have monitor plugged in it just goes to sleep and the laptop works normally. The software for the monitor said it correctly installed. Any ideas?

[modi123_1]

In your monitor's properties - do you see a monitor with a #1 and a disabled one with a #2? If so grab the #2 and drag is on to #1... it should prompt you if you want to enable that second monitor.

[jjallenjj]

In the monitors properties theirs only 1, the external monitor. Should my laptops screen not be there as well?

[jjallenjj]

Looking at it closer I realized changing the resolution of what is labeled as the external monitor changes the laptop's screen. No1 has any ideas on how to get the laptops screen detected?

[modi123_1]

What OS are you using?

http://cnettv.cnet.c...3-50002302.html

[jjallenjj]

Win 7, watched the video. The problem is only one monitor appears in the set up screen, the external one. How ever the only monitor displaying is the laptop screen.

[modi123_1]

Then something is failing because windows 7 is about the easiest to make dual monitors with a laptop.. As highlighted by microsoft.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976064

[jjallenjj]

modi123_1, on 11 September 2011 - 01:56 PM, said:

Then something is failing because windows 7 is about the easiest to make dual monitors with a laptop.. As highlighted by microsoft.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976064

Yes, any idea to what?

[modi123_1]

I got no idea on what laptop it is, what you are seeing in the display properties, etc. Screen shot and some info might help.

[jjallenjj]

Updated nvidia drivers and that worked. Thanks