2nd Monitor issue

I've been using a 2nd Monitor (ViewSonic 1080p) with my MacBook for several years. After recent upgrade to Snow Leopard, MacBook no longer recognizes the 2nd monitor in the Preferences. Monitor/cables are fine and work with another laptop OK. Do I need a software upgrade?, or will I be forced to purchase an Apple monitor. Puzzled

Here are the specs for your HP Pavilion p6-2029uk Desktop Computer. According to the specs this model has Intergrated AMD HD Graphics that have been disabled by the factory installed discrete PCI Express x16 AMD Radeon HD 6450. The DVI-D port and VGA port behind the "plastic covers" will not work unless the discrete graphics card is removed.
Assuming the discrete AMD Radeon HD 6450 card has a DVD-I port and an HDMI port, you should be able to connect the monitors as follows;
Computer > HDMI-to-DVI cable > HP 2011 monitor
Computer > DVI-to-VGA adapter > VGA cable > secondary monitor
Alternatively, you could remove the discrete AMD Radeon HD 6450 card and use the integrated onboard DVI-D and VGA ports as follows;
Computer > DVI cable > HP 2011 monitor
Computer > VGA cable > secondary monitor
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
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Hi there,
For some reason, recently, I can't get my indesign document to shift over to my 2nd monitor.
I have no problem moving the toolbars and palettes, they appear fine - but when I try and drag the actual document over to the other monitor it simply doesn't appear. It isn't locked as I can move it over to the right, it just won't show on the second monitor.
I'm sure this has not always been the case and it is proving frustrating as I want to have two documents open on seperate monitors.
Is there a preference that I have turned off in indesign?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
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Matt
P.s I have attached a screen grab to make this clearer

That's because it can't be done in CS3. The document must remain within the application.
The only way to accomplish this is to stretch the application across both monitors.
This capability does exist in CS4.
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I have this MacBook Pro bought brand-new in January 2010:
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Wow, you posted this perfectly to coincide with an identical problem, albeit using Logic Pro 9.1.5 rather than FCP.
Last week, I purchased a 23" external monitor to use alongside my "flagship" 2011 15" hi-res, 2.3 i7 Macbook Pro with 8Gb of RAM.
It is connected via a mini-DVI to D-sub analog (not that that should matter?) and all appeared fine.
The first issue I had was with my MBP's fan now running CONSTANTLY, when I have the second monitor attached. Even when the machine is completely idle.
When using the machine to record audio, this is a fairly hefty problem and not something I had anticipated - indeed why would I anticipate such a thing?
What is far, far worse though is that over the last few days I have had repeated problems with performance drop-outs and errors in Logic and I have trying to fathom out why. Realising that the only major system change made, was the above monitor connection, I ran some tests.
I restarted my MBP, no other apps were running and with my new 23" monitor attached acting as main display with MBP built in display on as secondary
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I disconnected the external display, no shut down, I just let the machine switch to the built in 15".
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There is a very useful benchmark Logic project that has been used as a test by many users to gauge Logic performance on given Apple hardware.
The project has about 100 tracks pre-configured with CPU intensive plugins, designed to tax the CPU.
The idea is that you load up the project with tracks muted, press play and then unmute the tracks steadily until Logic us unable to play contiunously because of a system performance error.
On my MBP, with the external monitor NOT attached, I can play back around 50 of the audio tracks in this benchmark project.
With the monitor attached, I can get about 22 tracks playing.... which is actually a far worse a performance drop (-50% I think!?) than with the first example!
I did also try with just the external monitor attached and not the MBP display and performance was about 10% better than with dual monitors - so still extremely poor, to say the least.
This machine is the flagship MBP and has a dedicated AMD Radeon HD6750 GPU which should take care of most if not ALL graphics processing - I mean it's capable of running some pretty demanding games!
Putting aside the issue of constant fan noise, there is no reason AT ALL, why using an external monitor should tax the i7 CPU this way - it's not as though Logic is graphically demanding... far from it.
I am on 10.6.8, Logic 9.1.5, all apps up to date via "Software Update".
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Dual Monitor Issue: 2nd Display too large...can't adjust...web pages provide no scroll bars

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Have you swapped the two monitors to see if the problem follows the monitor or remains at the same location??? Try that first... if the problem follows the monitor, perform a hard reset by unpluging the monitor from power then holding the power button for 30 seconds. If the problem stays in the same location, you know both monitors are good and I would suspect the KVM isn't passing the "EDID" data to the computer. Removing the KVM should will tell you if this is the case.
Please post back with your troubleshooting results.
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According to Adobe staff, a problem was introduced in Yosemite that is causing funkiness with secondary monitors is what I meant.
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I've been running my 15" retina macbook pro for more than a year now with 27" DELL monitor and it has alway been using 2560x1600 resolution display.
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Aspect RatioWidescreen
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Pixel Pitch0.2768 mm
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Color Support16.7 million colors
Response Time5 ms
Horizontal Viewing Angle170
Vertical Viewing Angle160
FeaturesHDCP, MagicBright 3, MagicTune
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