Using multiple monitors

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I was using My TV as my secondary monitor.Suddenly, I am not able to use
TV as my secondary,since the Settings tab in Display properties screen do not
show two monitors.It is showing properties of only one monitor (Plug and
play) .How I can I restore the Display properties screen as it was before?I
am using nvidia 128 Mb graphics card-P4-2.8 Ghz-512 mb ram-winxp pro.
 
rjagathe said:
I was using My TV as my secondary monitor.Suddenly, I am not able
to use TV as my secondary,since the Settings tab in Display
properties screen do not show two monitors.It is showing properties
of only one monitor (Plug and play) .How I can I restore the Display
properties screen as it was before?I am using nvidia 128 Mb graphics
card-P4-2.8 Ghz-512 mb ram-winxp pro.
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I have seen (personally) this happen a lot.
Did you update display drivers or install anything else that are related to
them?
Have you tried "undoing" that if you have?
Have you tried the latest drivers if you did not have to try the above?

NVidia Video Card Drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
 
Sorry I cannot help. Both my monitor & my TV display fine.

Except for one nagging little problem.

Physically, my monitor (#1) is on the right & my TV on the left (#2). I
only use the TV for viewing .AVI TV show files & other AVIs..

Whatever I do, if I try to make it so my mouse can move left off of my
monitor & into the TV display, The TV ends up grabbing all of the icons.
So I have to non-instinctually move my mouse to the right side off of my
monitor and into the TV which is on the left.

There might be a conflict of sorts in the display button in control panel
- in words, with a drop down menu, it says the TV is the default 6600 GT
display (6600 GT is my video card), but when holding the mouse over #1
(monitor) it says that is the default.

I just don't use the TV enough for my brain to burn in "off to the right
to go to the left", so I'm fumbling about at times.

Any suggestions? I'm happy it works at least in a round about way. AVI's
on a bigger TV look pretty good. They especially look good - better than
a normal low res TV signal, if they are high res wide screen burn, even
though the TV is not hi-res.

The only little thing with AVIs on a TV,, and it is not much distracting,
is AVIs show a .dark scene (like night time) where the dark areas are
"blotchy" - the dark shadows are lumping together some dark areas or
irregular "spots" instead of a smoothness, but since it's a dark scene
anyway and you couldn't see much to begin with, it doesn't distract.




...D.
 
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