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    how to connect two external monitors while keeping laptop monitor running?

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by warakawa, Apr 3, 2010.

  1. warakawa

    warakawa Notebook Evangelist

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    so i have two external monitors connected to my thinkpad's dock, one is connected with VGA and the other using displayport/DVI adapter.

    i opened up "screen Resolution" in win7, windows detects all three monitors but only lets me use two only.

    is there a way to get 3 monitor running at the same time?

    thanks
     
    warakawa, Apr 3, 2010
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    There may not be. Many GPUs in laptops only have two display buffers even if they have 3 connections, so only two can be used at any time, which is why you're seeing what you're seeing in Windows. It's almost certainly a physical hardware limitation.
     
    Pitabred, Apr 3, 2010
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  3. warakawa

    warakawa Notebook Evangelist

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    how come this guy did it?
     
    warakawa, Apr 3, 2010
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    or Lenovo usb2dvi converter...
     
    lead_org, Apr 6, 2010
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