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    issues with dual monitor

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by moto-, Nov 24, 2008.

  1. moto-

    moto- Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a Lenovo Y510 laptop and Samsung 172x monitor and recently started experiencing weird problems.

    It's only been week since I had a dual monitor configuration. at first it worked perfectly fine, but starting today the secondary monitor will turn itself off and even if i push the power switch, it will go off after a few seconds. after i unplugged the monitor and rebooted and plugged it back in, it started working for a bit, but it's doing the same thing again.

    any ideas on what the cause can be?

    thanks.
     
    moto-, Nov 24, 2008
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    Have you made any changes to your system lately? like driver updates?
     
    flipfire, Nov 24, 2008
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    nope. there might of been a few windows updates, but other than that, I did not change any configurations.
     
    moto-, Nov 25, 2008
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    Try re-installing or updating your video driver.
     
    flipfire, Nov 25, 2008
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