All,

I have a Dell Inspiron Laptop and I have 2 external monitors which I can only use 1 at a time as I only have 1 VGA port. DF worked like a champ, then it would not display to my Dell E2010H. The DF control panel sees the Dell but will not display to it. So I set it to only display on the ext Dell monitor and of course I can not see either

When I hook my Samsung SyncMaster 912N in, it used to display to it but now I just get the message on the monitor screen, "Not Optimum Mode Recommended Mode: 1280X1024 60Hz. So I have set the monitor to that through DF control panel and the WIndows Control Panel.

Not good. How do I resolve this?

THanks!!

JDL

Hi Jon,

OK, let me be clearer. I have used the 2 monitors with another Dell Laptop and they both work fine. I do not have DF loaded on to it. When I get home, I will update my video driver but it is a relatively new build, so let's see.
If that does not work, then I will try removing DF and see if I could get it from my laptop directly to my ext. displays. As I have a feeling you be correct.

Stay Tuned!!

OK,

So I tried the above last night and removed DF from the system. As I was driving to work, I was thinking, "Could the VGA cable be bad?" Why not? So I swapped it with the same results. What is weird is the monitor changes when I make changes to the display output like Mirrored or Extended. So I tried another monitor with another VGA cable with a blank screen. It did not work. BUT when I tried the Samsung monitor with another notebook, it failed. I would say you were correct in the fact this is a hard ware issue.

Thank you for your time,

John Lozauskas