How do you get dual display to work?

[Muse]

I'm trying to figure out how to do this. Just added Planar PX191 to my NEC FP2141 22" CRT, and nView Wizard came up automatically and I configured nView, mostly with the defaults. Using nVidia 4.7.0.2 WHQL certified driver. Right now, I'm seeing the same thing on both displays. How do I set it up so I can have certain applications on one display, certain on the others, and hopefully be able to drag them from one to the other or even overlap? Thanks.

Edit: NView seems to think I only have one monitor! It's seeing my CRT, I think. Under Display Properties, there's the CRT as the monitor, not the LCD. How can I get this configured?

 

[FatJackSprat]

Try right clicking on the desktop and choosing properties and then choosing the Display Properties tab. Click on the picture of the second monitor, the one with a 2 in it, then select "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor"

Then when you have a window open, click the maximize button (beside the X in the right corner of the screen) to make the window not full size. After that, drag the window onto the second monitor and hit the maximize button again so that the window is full size, then close it while it's in the second monitor.

Any window that I do this with will always open in the second monitor. I have an ati card, so I don't know it there are some other settings that make this possible, but before I did this my wallpaper wasn't on the second screen and my mouse wouldn't go over there either.

Good luck.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: FatJackSprat
Try right clicking on the desktop and choosing properties and then choosing the Display Properties tab. Click on the picture of the second monitor, the one with a 2 in it, then select "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor"

Then when you have a window open, click the maximize button (beside the X in the right corner of the screen) to make the window not full size. After that, drag the window onto the second monitor and hit the maximize button again so that the window is full size, then close it while it's in the second monitor.

Any window that I do this with will always open in the second monitor. I have an ati card, so I don't know it there are some other settings that make this possible, but before I did this my wallpaper wasn't on the second screen and my mouse wouldn't go over there either.

Good luck.

I have no Display Properties tab. The window's title bar says Display Properties and the tabs say:

Background
Screen Saver
Appearance
Web
Effects
Settings

Nowhere do I see a picture of two monitors.

Guess I'm going to uninstall 4.0.7.2 and install 44.23 nVidia driver and see if that makes a difference.

 

[Lonyo]

See here and if you have that check box, it's what you need to click.

(Display properties > settings > advanced > GF<whatever> tab)

After you've clocked "apply" and rebooted, it should be that you have 2 monitors in the display properties > setting tab, and can set each up as you want.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
See here and if you have that check box, it's what you need to click.

(Display properties > settings > advanced > GF<whatever> tab)

After you've clocked "apply" and rebooted, it should be that you have 2 monitors in the display properties > setting tab, and can set each up as you want.

Finally got the two displays and have my desktop spanning them horizontally. However, the CRT is displaying at 60 Hz and I can't adjust it to any other refresh rate. When I go to Display Properties, Settings, Advanced and choose Monitor, I get a consistent error implicating Rundll32.exe. The Monitor tab is simply inaccessible. This is after reboots.

Edit: After uninstalling 4.0.7.2 and installing 44.23, and reboots, etc. I have adjustability of refresh rates. Will see if I can get nView working OK.

 

[Muse]

Right now all my Desktop icons are on my 2nd display (don't know why) but my taskbar and mouse are on the 1st display. Off course, I can't click on any of the icons because the mouse is on the other display! This is some great software! Um, how do I get mouse support on both displays. I just want to be able to move the mouse between the displays. I had it for a while, but it went away, I guess when I removed my earlier video driver and installed 44.23. This is pretty nutty. Besides this, every other time I reboot or so, I get explorer.exe crashes along with a dialog that allows Cancel or OK, but no matter what I do, the dialog pops up every 3 seconds or so and the screens recycle ad infinitum until I hit the reset button. Yeah, there's no other way to stop that cycle.

Edit: The cycle just happened again and I was able to get it to stop without rebooting, don't know how. Still have the icons on the right display, the mouse and taskbar/start button on the left. You can't compute this way.

 

[Muse]

Now it's looking like I'm really hosed. I got another crash and then BSODs and I went in in Safe Mode and removed the display adaptor and rebooted and then installed the 44.23 driver but on reboot the device isn't working properly. So, I'm running at 800 x 600 and can't get the display driver to work. Any ideas? If I can't get a better idea I'll have to back up and reformat my OS partition and reinstall Windows 2000 from scratch. Anybody got maybe a better idea? Thanks.