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12-21-2005, 10:25 PM
I have two 2001fps hooked up to one computer. I had it hooked up fine in my dorm and just came home for break. While trying to set everything up I encountered a problem. I plugged both monitors power cords in and connected both to the computer. When I booted up my computer, only the primary connection works while the secondary one just came up as a black screen.

Next I hit right clicked and went to properties. I then hit extend my desktop to the second monitor and it didn't work. I then tried making the blacked out one my primary monitor and it still didnt work. Now I can't open anything up to try to fix it because anything I open automatically goes to the blacked out monitor where I can't do anything.

If anyone has any idea what to do I would appreciate any help. thanks

DQPaulie
12-22-2005, 12:52 AM
Unhooking the blacked out monitor and rebooting will solve the can't do anything problem, as the desktop will come up on the good monitor.
Then I would hook up the good monitor to both outputs to see if it is the video card, then the bad monitor to both outputs to see what happeneds.

DQ

smoore
12-22-2005, 01:02 AM
good advice, welcome to the forums.

12-22-2005, 03:41 AM
Problem solved, thanks a lot for the advice.