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    Confused about external displays with 8740w

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by boss99er, Sep 10, 2011.

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    Hey guys, first post here. I just received an HP 8740w from my work. When purchased, we were under the impression that I would be able to use the laptop display, and 2 external displays for a total of 3 displays. I have the HP advanced dock, which has 2 DVI ports that I'd like to use. I can only ever get one display to work though even though I have displays plugged into both ports. My 8740w has the ATI FirePro GPU, so from what I've read, it "should" be able to do this. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Any help would be awesome!
     
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