Dual Monitor (Clone) Please help!

Hello all,

I'm doing a project for school and I hooked up a monitor to the output of my laptop. I select Intel Dual Display Clone for output and everything is fine... except it completely screws up the resolution on my laptop. I have tried to adjust under the monitor settings but for some reason it doesn't adjust. It seems like maybe my monitor is set as the primary instead of my laptop... but it won't change that either. I've messed with this thing for hours trying different settings attempting to get it to work.

Can anyone help???

 

My guess is that it has to match the resolution of the device your cloning it too. Maybe different video drivers can let you customize the options abit more.

 

Yea that's what I figured... so, is this possible:

Getting a 'monitor out' cord that converts that into some video component so I could like output to a small television or something. Essentially, I need to come up with a way to allow others to see what I'm doing from my laptop on a different monitor.

 

If you want to output to a tv youre going to need an s-video cable. if the tv doesnt have s-video then youre going to need an s-video to composite cable.

IMHO, you should stay away from s-video. quality will be very poor. Whats happening in the situation above, is that your video card will match the resolution of the connected devices, simply scaling your laptop display as necessary. The current setup is probably the best youre going to achieve, so youre better off just getting used to it.

 

Any monitor should have VGA, thats the way to go for older monitors.

A new monitor or HDTV will have DVI or HDMI thats the connection to use.

For the digital outputs you also need a laptop that as those, a converter will do you no good and its expensive, but even age old laptops have a VGA output.

 

not sure.... but that happened to me a few times. i just went to display properties and selected my laptop as the main monitor and toggled the two different resolutions from there...