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    Plug 2 external monitors (+LCD) on M860TU?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Phraides, Dec 7, 2009.

  1. Phraides

    Phraides Newbie

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    Hello,

    I would like to plug 2 external monitors (1920*1080 each), and also be able to use my LCD screen (for a total of 3 screens), on my Clevo M860TU, which has a HDMI+DVI output. The graphics card is a nvidia 260m, and it's running on Windows 7.

    First of all, is that possible? Would it work to just buy a HDMI->DVI cable and plug both screens on their DVI input?

    If it's not directly possible because of some limitation of the graphics card, is there any other kind of solution, like buying a USB->DVI adapter or something else? What would be the cheapest way to achieve that? (I read that the TripleHead2Go can do that, but it's expensive!).

    Thanks!
     
    Phraides, Dec 7, 2009
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  2. Judicator

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    I think it might actually be a driver limitation instead of specifically being a hardware limitation, but in practice, it's the same. I'm afraid you're going to have to go for a solution like the TripleHead2Go, although since you only want to use 2 external monitors instead of 3, you can use a DualHead2Go instead of the Triple... it'll cost you about half the Triple, but it'll still be expensive.
     
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    As judicator said, it is not possible to do this on the standard setup, a dualhead2go is probably your best option
     
    theriko, Dec 7, 2009
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  4. Phraides

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    Thank you for your answers!

    I have read though that it would be possible to plug two external monitors (one hdmi and one dvi) and use them if I disable the LCD pannel of the laptop. I have tried that, but unfortunately I can't manage to get them both working :(

    With the latest nvidia drivers, I get a message saying "This GPU supports a single display" but under that I get: "To use two displays on this GPU, reboot the computer". But rebooting the computer doesn't make it work either... I tried with the drivers on the Clevo website, and it's the same.

    Has anyone ever tried that?

    Thanks!
     
    Phraides, Dec 14, 2009
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