Scamp

Morning fools,

Need some help.

Just got a second screen. Obviously want to be able to use both side by side.

Situation is this:

Laptop goes into docking station, stays shut, boots up, screen 1 comes on.

Now....second screen is here, obviously it only has a normal monitor port on the back and a normal monitor cable. The docking station only has one monitor port (which is in use...obviously).

Do I just need to get an adapto to take the monito cable to USB or one of the video outputs or something?

I have a feeling that unless I provide the idea for the solution then I'll have a black screen facing me for weeks.

Help appreciated, jokes welcomed - try and make them funny and/or insulting though.

Millhouse

Are you playing flight simms at work now?

Scamp

6/10. Not what I was expecting but lacked rudeness.

Oh...and no, I need two screens because I'm so busy, important and it's too difficult to cut and paste names into linkedin without two screens.

Millhouse

I was going to say, just open the ****ing laptop and use that one as one of the screens.

Scamp

Nah, screen isn't massive on laptop and my monitor is stacked on paper so it almost reaches eye level. I'd have to get a degree in construction to build something to hold laptop and dock at same level.

Millsyisland

Have you tried turning it off and on again?...

Meow

Alt, control, delete?

csdf

I would have thought you would need a laptop with two graphics cards / outputs to be able to do this. Otherwise even if you get a splitter, you're going to end up with the same image on two different screens.

Irishbeekeeper

i presume ur using windows 7 and that the other monitor is plugged in to the monitor port

right click on desktop
go to screen resolution
if everything is plugged in properly, you should be able to see 2 screens in the top of the window saying 1 / 2
underneath it, it says display etc
play around with the options that what do you need to do i.e. extend your desktop on to the screen 2? make screen 2 the primary one? go to the office watercooler with your pants around your ankles yelling god save the queen? duplicate whats one screen 1 onto screen 2? etc etc
once you have what you want, you can also play around with the resolution to ideally fit whatever you need to do onto one or both screens
remember one thing, if you select an option and everything goes blank, dont panic, wait for it, it will come back in 7-8 seconds, and if you get to a screen scenario where you do not like it immediately, then do NOT click on accept! just wait for it and it will revert to the earlier version
hope that helped
inbox if more help needed, but please no more shirtless pics of yourself mate!

Scamp

I hope not. That'd be embarrassing.

Problem is, there is one port for a monitor on the space docking station....so can I get an adaptor and plug the monitor into USB or Video/Projector output?

BTW. My pants are down and I'm taking a pic to send you of me and the watercooler having a blast.

NorthernLad

Use laptop screen and then the monitor as second screen (that's what docking stations are designed to do. For laptop screen and two monitors you are going to need to get to computer plaza for some cables.

britexpat76

Get over yourself and use 1 ****ing screen like every other ****tard.

(unless this is somehow relating to watching porn, which is totally acceptable)

Scamp

Problem is the laptop screen is terrible...and my monitor is raised so I can actually see it without sitting on the floor. Anyway, put it this way, it's going to be two screens and laptop shut. I think I just need a connector to change VGA to DVI.

It's so I can email people telling them to accept less money on one screen and have BBC sport on the other. I've made it.

Irishbeekeeper

I will never look at a watercooler the same way again!
No mate there is no VGA to USB type connector I am afraid. VGA to DVI? Is there a DVI port on the dock or your laptop apart from the VGA port? What's the make and exact model of the dock?

Scamp

Yeah there are two DVI ports on the back. Rang the mrs and asked her to go to a mall and buy one!

THanks for your help mate.