On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:17:38PM -0500, Aldrich, Dak wrote:

> And yet another puzzling problem.
> 
> I have several OptiPlex 760's.  One of them I've got to successfully work with two monitors.  I had to install the NVidia drivers directly from them, the ones that Dell had didn't work correctly.
> 
> However, I have two other 760's that I'm trying to get working and it's not working.  I've installed the SAME NVidia drivers from them that I used on the previously mentioned machine.
> 
> What happens, I can enable dual monitors in mirror mode, however, the second I set it to a primary and secondary, it reverts to mirrored.  I have the same Dell issued video splitter adapter for all 3 machines.
> 
> I'm confused.  Anyone have anything that might tell me why this happens and how to fix it?

Not sure if this is directly applicable to the 760's, but on my laptop,
I can sort this out by going into the NVIDIA control panel, under
Display / Set up multiple displays.  I can't always get it right under
the Display control panel itself.

Doug


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