Help setting up multiple monitors on M17x

I have connected my M17x to an external monitor (Samsung) and when I go into the Display settings and/or the Nvidia control panel I cannot get it to extend the display. It does show the option to use either the laptop screen or the Samsung but not both (Under setup multiple displays). Can someone help me to get this working?

My m15x did it automatically. I am stumped.

Thanks.

Oh and sli is the configuration.

 

restart the computer with the TV plugged in

 

Well it is not the TV it is an external monitor and I did try that. I played around with the fn-f7 button and for a moment it showed two monitors in the display settings menu though the second one was grayed out. This should not be this difficult!

 

are you using generic drivers for the samsung? not saying this will help, just a thought...

 

can you show screen shots?

it showed grey out...when it was grey did you have it set to extend onto 2 monitor ( covering bases)

 

Never had to use drivers but maybe I will use the CD if I can find it. Now the pivture on my monitor is shaking from time to time....sigh...what the heck

 

if his monitor takes drivers windows should of loaded them when he restarted

 

Wow now in IE when I scroll the monitor flashes....wonderful.

Just on this web site....

 

Just to be clear, I can use both screens, just not at the same time. So the M17x clearly can use the Samsung LCD, just not in tandem with the laptops screen. Crazy huh? I have not had thsi problem with any laptop that I have ever used before. Maybe I will call....Alienware? Dell? Both!

 

ok ... i had a monitor that was incompatible with a certain card..... i unno why but any card but that one would work...

your using stock drivers?

 

Yes I am. Now can you help me get rid of the shakiness that happens when I scroll down the page when the website has pictures or a white background. I messed around with the mgz, it is not back to 59 but still the shakiness occurs, making my eyes hurt. Yet on Alineware's web site no shakiness at all.....

 

Ok I restarted the lappy and now the shakiness is gone. I still cannot get it to use the second monitor. This seems very odd as my mx15 uses this lcd (Samsung) with no problems at all, and it doesn't have sli config? Should I try using it without sli config? I will try that.

 

like does the monitor say no signal or is it all just black like its trying to use it?

 

I finally figured it out. I had to disbale SLI config. Now both monitors are showing the same image (in clone mode). So I guess we learned that you cannot using an external monitor in SLI configuration

 

i bet its the driver..poorly written and it was trying to use seperate GPU's or something give it time

 

Yeah I will. I am just tired, need to get some sleep as my wife and I along with two friends are driving to Colorado, early Tuesday morning for a two week vacation (well sort-of as it is a family reunion, luckily her family, lol) and it is a 1440 mile drive . I just wanna make sure I get everything setup on my M17x before we go .

Now if I can just figure out where my friends will sit as the back seat of our vehicle (Nissan Rogue) is for the M17x, it is kinda big you know, lol...

Thanks for your help

 

This is normal since stock drivers are, I believe, 179.85 and as far as I can remember dual screen with SLI on was introduced in the 180 drivers series.
Updating your drivers should allow you to use dual screen with SLI enabled.

 

Yea Dual screen and SLI has always been buggy for me. I havent ever had it work properly...

When I run multiple monitors on my desktop I Turn off SLI and then enable it when needed.. The only bad thing is, a reboot is sometimes required to do it properly.

 

good new the new driver in my sig in the m17x drivers thread should support dual monitor fine

 

hey the_moo i guess you removed name to the driver you mentioned:
"good new the new driver in my sig in the m17x drivers thread should support dual monitor fine "
mind posting it here? I too have the problem with dual monitor and sli setup.

Thanks!

Alex