GE60 HDMI + VGA

Is it possible to use two external monitors with this laptop? I try hooking one up via HDMI and one via VGA but it will only enable one at a time.

Quote from: Jankos on 04-June-13, 04:52:37
From what I understand this laptop has two graphics processors, an nvidia one and intel one. Should it not be possible to output to all three?
The first sentence is true. The problem is that only 1 can be enabled to output at 1 time. That's part of the whole 'switching' graphics card part (ie Optimus). So only the Intel, or the NVidia, can output to the screen/monitors at a time.
On top of that, if I remember right, I don't think the Intel supports more than 2 monitors as well. Actually, I lie, they do support 3 monitors, but not in the configuration that our notebook has.....
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_Graphics under the '3 active displays' portion.....

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