https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=e73fd220-12a6-4f1f-a8b9-31c1c8a93bea DisplayFusion RSS: hdmi connected monitor shows laptop background but goes black when opening any program on it Wed, 13 May 2026 21:53:22 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=e73fd220-12a6-4f1f-a8b9-31c1c8a93bea https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/hdmi-connected-monitor-shows-laptop-background-but-goes-black-when-opening-any-program-on-it/?ID=e73fd220-12a6-4f1f-a8b9-31c1c8a93bea#2 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:59:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/hdmi-connected-monitor-shows-laptop-background-but-goes-black-when-opening-any-program-on-it/?ID=e73fd220-12a6-4f1f-a8b9-31c1c8a93bea#2 DisplayFusion That's really strange! Does that happen even after you exit DisplayFusion? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/hdmi-connected-monitor-shows-laptop-background-but-goes-black-when-opening-any-program-on-it/?ID=e73fd220-12a6-4f1f-a8b9-31c1c8a93bea Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:26:15 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/hdmi-connected-monitor-shows-laptop-background-but-goes-black-when-opening-any-program-on-it/?ID=e73fd220-12a6-4f1f-a8b9-31c1c8a93bea DisplayFusion Hello,
I have an hp laptop running windows 10 connected to an acer monitor as a second screen. now when I connect them, the laptop works as normal and the acer monitor shows the laptop background and taskbar at the bottom, all in good resolution and without really flickering. If I try to drag anything over to view on the second screen, it goes black with some white flickering at the top. I have updated all the drivers and tried two (cheap) hdmi cables to no avail. I don't really know much about what I'm doing, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! ]]>