Moniter trouble

[wpeters]

Last night I tried hooking up my new moniter for 2 displays.   Since I was using my analog port on my gtx660 I hooked up my second moniter with HDMI.
 When I powered it on it said no connection.  Funny thing is the computer recognizes it.  Both in windows mode and in NIVIDIA contol panel.  But it continues to stay dark.   What am I doing wrong ??? Is there something else I should try.


I have restarted unplugged and replugged it back up with same results.


Any help much appreciated

[Bizman]

Check your settings in nVidia control panel and/or Windows. There should be check boxes for how you'd like to see your desktop on the two monitors, cloned or expanded (the latter). You should also be able to choose which one is your primary monitor and on which side the secondary should be, meaning how your cursor would move over one monitor to the other.

[wpeters]

Check your settings in nVidia control panel and/or Windows. There should be check boxes for how you'd like to see your desktop on the two monitors, cloned or expanded (the latter). You should also be able to choose which one is your primary monitor and on which side the secondary should be, meaning how your cursor would move over one monitor to the other.

I chose extended and also the cursor will disappear but screen remains black

[Bizman]

Check the cables for a bent pin, both ends.

[wpeters]

I have. Looks fine

[Bizman]

drivers? Other than that, I'm out of ideas.

Wait! Not totally: Try with only the black image monitor connected to see if it should work at all. Another thing: At the evening school we just installed new nVidia equipped double monitor systems and the one I'm using stopped showing the wallpaper image. It's black but I can move the cursor into it and drag windows from the main desktop to it, so it's fully functional.OTOH it still shows the Taskbar.

[mikeWe9a]

Your monitor displays the message that it has no input?  Is the monitor in question the one hooked up to HDMI or Analog?

In either case, try accessing the on screen display for the monitor, and checking to make sure that it is set to look for a signal on the correct connector.  Additionally, if you are on the analog connector, check your display driver settings to make sure you have a resolution and refresh rate set that the monitor can display.

Mike

[wpeters]

Your monitor displays the message that it has no input?  Is the monitor in question the one hooked up to HDMI or Analog?

In either case, try accessing the on screen display for the monitor, and checking to make sure that it is set to look for a signal on the correct connector.  Additionally, if you are on the analog connector, check your display driver settings to make sure you have a resolution and refresh rate set that the monitor can display.

Mike

How do you check to make sure that it is spose to pick up hdmi

[FLS]

Did your new monitor come with a manual?  There should be a button to access settings.

[Bizman]

Hmmm... Does the "dead" monitor have a "source" or "input" button to choose from multiple input choices like hdmi, dvi or vga? I just got a (second hand) monitor with a built-in computer, xp preinstalled. At first I couldn't find the windows until I chose the correct input.

[wpeters]

Hmmm... Does the "dead" monitor have a "source" or "input" button to choose from multiple input choices like hdmi, dvi or vga? I just got a (second hand) monitor with a built-in computer, xp preinstalled. At first I couldn't find the windows until I chose the correct input.

I ended up hooking my second monitor up to a vga cable that goes to the cpu graphics instead of coming out of the graphic card

[The Fugitive]

I ended up hooking my second monitor up to a vga cable that goes to the cpu graphics instead of coming out of the graphic card

Maybe thats your problem, the on-board graphics should be disabled when you have a graphics card installed.

[Bizman]

Maybe thats your problem, the on-board graphics should be disabled when you have a graphics card installed.

it took your answer until I understood what wpeters said he had done.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Maybe thats your problem, the on-board graphics should be disabled when you have a graphics card installed.

Not in all cases, Intel has 'hybrid' mode where you can use both.

[guncrasher]

your problem is you are trying to use 2 hdmi cables.  or you are mixing hdmi with non hdmi.  for some reason I could never connect 3 monitors using 3 hdmi cables from 2 sli video cards.  I could ony connect 1 using hdmi.


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