Re: Need some help with my new Dell monitor
I'm not the foremost expert, but I have staid at a Holiday Inn Express before, so here's my take:
About the orange light: That just means your monitor isn't getting a signal from your computer. This could be because your computer isn't on or is sleeping itself (you tried waking it up by moving the mouse and hitting the keyboard), or because it's just not connected (properly). My money's on the latter.
About the two ways to plug it in: I really don't think that you're going to be able to plug in one monitor into the DVI and one into the regular jack and have a dual-monitor system. I'm pretty sure you're going to need a second video card for that. This being the case, you might as well just plug it into the regular port because your motivation for using the DVI seems to be because you want to plug a 2nd monitor into this one and that's not going to work. As for 'solving' the 'real' problem of why your DVI port isn't working, I'm sorry, but I can't help you with that. It shouldn't bother you, though, unless that kind of thing really bothers you (these things do sometimes bother me).
Finally, I hope you're only going to use the second monitor for a few trivial things. I don't know what it is, but my guess is looking at the new Dell (I assume it's the FP2001 or whatever - the big LCD) and then looking at the other one is going to make the old one really look bad and going back and forth between the two might suck a bit.
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