Hook up second monitor

I have the new Imac and am trying to hook up my old apple monitor. It's a 19 inch cinema display, probably 7 years old. I"m a bit confused as to which adaptor to purchase. Thunderbolt, DVI male to female? Here are a couple of pictures. One is directly from my monitor, and the other is the extention cable
to the input of my old Mac Pro Tower. Top image is into the computer, bottom directly from the monitor before the extention.

Looks like a DVI connector, so you would need a mini display port to DVI adapter. You can get one from Apple's online store, here is the link to the US store:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/B/mini-displayport-to-dvi-adapter

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What do I need to hook up second monitor?

Hi,
I have a LCD monitor that has an hdmi and dvi slots. What do I need to connect my mac book pro (late) to this second monitor?
thank you

You need this component, or a dual-link DVI adaptor if the monitor's largest resolution exceeds 1920 by 1200.
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My office just bought me an iMac and I absolutely need to hook up a second monitor but there is no DVI connection on it, just a Thunderbolt. What do I do? Please help ASAP!!!

My office just bought me an iMac and I absolutely need to hook up a second monitor but there is no DVI connection on it, just a Thunderbolt. What do I do? Please help ASAP!!! The imac is a 21.5" and they also already bought an HD 21.5 ASUS LCD monitor to attach to it. I'm really trying to make this setup work but this is becoming a nightmare. Any suggestions? I looked up different VGA adapters but the only options for this would be a usb-vga connection which doesn't work on macs. Can anyone tell me if this new Thunderbolt connection will work in some way? Thanks

Using the Thunderbolt port attach a Mini-display to DVI so long as the Asus display is equipped and capable, otherwise Mini-display to VGA will also work. The Thunderbolt port is ahead devices which are not yet available to take advantage of the increased capacity in speed. Until the devices and connection cables are available, just use the port as a Mini-display port.

Watching movies on projector hooked up as second monitor

Hey all, here's a real good question for you. I currently have a projector (nec lt84 OLD!!!) and love it. It's hooked up to my G5 DC 2.0ghz with the 128meg geforce 6600lt (the stock video card with the dual core 2.0ghz). The projector's resolution is 1024x768 (it's native resolution is 800x600, but it runs interpolated at this higher resolution.) as I have it mirrored to a second monitor (LCD PANEL) that's at that resolution native. My projector is dying, and I'm getting a new one. I can't really afford to get one of the 1280x720 models, and I don't really watch anything on my projector except movies; which are a native 720x480. So the projector I'm looking at is a 854x480. The problem is I don't think the OS will really work well at that resolution. So what I'm wondering is, is there a way to make only the movies appear on the projector, and have the os and everything else run on the monitor at 1024x768? The projector will probably be DVI and the LCD PANEL is VGA (which I already have an adapter for to hook up to the DVI port on the G5.)
Good luck in answering!!
Damon
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Actually those extra lines make all the difference in the world. Some windows in the OSX enviroment can't be resized. So, you end up dragging the windows around the screen to get to the top or bottom of the window. If you haven't noticed, you can't drag a window past the top of the screen. Try it. So if the particular window you have is bigger than 480 pixels tall, I won't be able to click anything lower than 480 pixels. A good example of this is the system preferences pane. If you have to click an apply button or something, no go. So, is there a way to make the movies go full screen on the second monitor?

Can i hook an A1082 monitor up to a windows monitor as a second one?

can i hook an A1082 monitor up to a windows monitor as a second one?

I agree Steve, to come out with a new monitor that everyone has been waiting for and wanting so badly...........and to have it only work with their new laptops ?!? Very, very frustrating. They definitely cut off a lot of sales by doing that. Including myself, I know of 4 people right now that would have already bought one if it worked with other Macs. You know they could make a connector that would work with the iMac, or any other Mac.......but they chose not to.
Sometimes it makes you wonder what they are thinking.
..........does me anyway.......
Hopefully they will change that, and make it available for other ones soon!

What do i need to connect my 30" cinema display as a second monitor to my new 27" imac?

I recently purchased a new iMac and want to run my 30" cinema display as a second monitor. My local mac experts told me to use a mini display to dvi adaptor, but that didn't work for any of my cinema displays - the 30" that i want to use and a 21" that I have. I called the guys back up and after a little research, he told me to get a mini display port to dual link dvi adapter. This costs $99, so I want to be sure it's going to work.
Does anyone know if this will work, or if there is a better idea, or ****, does the new iMac even except a 2nd monitor.
Thanks. Looking forward to your input.

Well I may have heard wrong, but I do not believe that you can hook that 6 year old monitor to the latest 27" iMacs with ThunderBolt. I would do more research before putting out the bucks, or make sure that you can return it if it does not work.
But do let us know if you try it and it works.

Connect a g5imac to a g4 powerbook as a second monitor

Is this possible?
I want to use the laptop as a bigger screen to aid in editing, is it possible?
I have a powermac g5imac with 2 gig ram in.
Thanks in advance.

Andy simply answered your very specific question. Now, if you want to hook up a second monitor (not the laptop as you first asked) to your iMac then you may get a few longer answers. Like, Maybe.
If you are editing DV then you should be able to connect your DV cam or deck via FW then connect a monitor to your camera or deck. However, this will just give you a playback monitor, you will not be able to extend your desktop to this monitor. With an iMac I think that is impossible to do because of the lack of additional video (DVI or VGA) outputs.
Long enough?
K

Extending the desk top, adding a second monitor/screen

Hi,
I bought an Apple Mini-DVI to VGA adapter that allows me to plug my 20" vga monitor into my imac so that I can have more screen space. I had hoped to be able to drag files over to the 20" screen. That works, but when plugged into my imac, the 20" screen is blurry, and I can't look at it for more than five minutes without getting a headache. If I hook up the 20" screen to my pc, I can work on it all day.
I got the idea to add my 20" monitor to my imac after reading posts here on the forum, which all gushed about how great the result was. I went into the Genius Bar to ask about the blurriness I was experiencing, and they told me to call Apple Care. Apple Care didn't know what to do, and after putting me on hold several times, they said the blurriness was "normal distortion" from the adapter. Well, then in my opinion, the adapter is useless.
Is there anything I can do, or should I return the adapter?

Thats strange, I have the same set up as you and the second monitor works fine with the Mini-DVI to VGA adaptor. The only thing i could suggest would be to try connecting another monitor to the Mac and see if you have the same problem. If not, it must be the monitor.

How do I get my Mac Pro to see the second monitor through a video splitter and/or switcher?

In a recording studio we have a Mac Pro with two video display monitors in the control room and we want to be able to show the content of the second monitor to the person in the recording room on a big display monitor there. However, when we interpose a switcher or splitter between the computer and the second monitor so that we can (with a switcher) switch the second monitor signal from the control room monitor to the record room monitor or (with a splitter) split the signal to go to both monitors, we have no luck. On startup the computer does not see the monitor through the switcher, so it doesn't recognize its existence. If we start the computer up without the switcher in the signal chain, it sees the second monitor just fine, and (weirdly enough) we can then change the cabling to interpose the switch, which then works to switch back and forth between second monitors (control room and record room), but that cable swapping's a royal PITA. We want a simple solution that will allow us to start up the computer, see the second monitor in the control room, then choose to show it to the person in the record room with a simple flip of the switch (or even better, split the signal so it's available both places). The splitter we've tried most recently is this one: http://tinyurl.com/curen39 I'd appreciate any advice from people who have tried this configuration or something similar with success. We have a full ProTools HD Accel 3 system installed, so there's no room to install a second video card. Thanks.
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Christopher Dobrian wrote:
Thanks for the response! Yes, it's a 5x70 video card, a 5770 I believe. In any case, it does have the three ports, but (a not-well documented fact) that doesn't mean one can really get three full-resolution signals out of it at one time, as you alluded to in your message. So, yes, we did try hooking all three up directly to the computer, but the computer would only recognize two of those monitors, and the only way to get it to "de-recognize" the second monitor and recognize the third monitor was to physically disconnect the second monitor.
I did say when you want to connect three monitors to 5x70's there are some rules to adhere to. These are covered in the first two apple docs mentioned above, or by title:
Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Early 2009): Issues with three displays and multiple DVI, HDMI connections
Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac Pro (Mid 2010): Supported display configurations
The general gist of these rules is that to drive three monitor son a 5x70 you need two active adapters. That is why one of your monitors was disabled when you tried to add a third.
Here's a good explanation of what's going in here and why you need two active adapters on these cards:
Active vs. Passive Displayport adapters *the truth*
If you use DVI monitors and any of them have resolutions less than 1920 x 1200 then you can use single link active adapters. The "AMD Eyefinity Validated Dongles" chart shows some active (and passive) adapters that are acceptable. For example of a single link DVI active adapter is the Accell B087B-006B. An example of a dual link DVI active adapter would be the one from monoprice.com if you need to connect monitors with a resolution greater than 1920 x 1200.
I'm doubtful that SwitchResX would be able to convince the computer that there were only two monitors connected and direct the second monitor signal to the correct place, but it certainly seems worth a try, so thanks for the idea! Any other ideas are still welcome in the meantime.
I'm not doubtful. It is a very powerful utility for dealing with all aspects of multiple monitor configurations (they call them "Display Sets") complete with forcing EDID information if necessary. The different configurations can be controlled with a (contextual) menu and/or hot key.
SwitchResX is academic at this point if you want to have all three monitors connected. You would need to get that working first. Then use SwitchResX to vary the configuration combinations. So if you go this route the "name of the game" is figure out the active adapters you need.
I only described in general terms above about the adapters since you never said exactly what kind of connections these monitors require (single link DVI, dual link DVI, hdmi, mini-displayport, vga).

Running a tv as a second monitor

Hello all,
Just a quick question, I've just bought a dual 2.7Ghz G5 with the standard graphics card (everymac says its the Radeon 9650) and was just wondering if I could hook a HD TV to it to act as a second monitor.
Its a little decadent I know, but it would be nice. I haven't yet bought the TV, I'm in the process of upgrading everything and thats coming last.
Is there anything in particular I should look for - other than a dvi port etc. - or is this flat out impossible? Thanks in advance
Dije

And you do need to run audio separately, if you want the sound to come out of the HDTV's speakers. Although HDMI carries the audio signal, DVI does not. The HDTV will probably have a pair of RCA (red/white) connectors for audio in. Just get a mini-stereo jack to RCA adapter, and run it parallel to the HDMI cable.
I've done it, and it works quite well (converting from DVI to HDMI).

HP envy won't recognize second monitor

I just purchaes an HP Envy 17t-j100 select edition notebook. I am trying to hook up a second monitor. The monitor is not the issue it works fine with the other laptops in the office however when i plug it into this one it wont recognize it and the screen on the second monitor just says cable not connected. I have a cord that is HDMI to plug into the computer and a VGA on the other side to plug into the monitor.

Hi,
Do you have a converter in between ? From HDMI (digital) to VGA (analog) you need a converter. Some "cord" may have builtin converter but some may not. Please check and get a right converter.
Regards.
BH
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Using Laptop screen as second monitor?

Hey gusy,
I have a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. With the Mac Pro I have just the one screen - used to have two, but now just the one as I rarely need it. However, for a job I'm doing at the moment, it would be handy to have the use of two screens. Do you know if it's possible to hook both computers up and use the LapTop screen as a second monitor for my Mac Pro?

James Arter1 wrote: ... older Mac Pro's, so no Thunderbolt :-(
Then it seems you can't use your LapTop as a second monitor for Mac Pro.
An external monitor would seem to be the least cost path to more display.
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Can I use a second monitor and have an extended desktop

Thinking of getting a new imac. Maybe the "20. I was wondering will I be able to hook up a second monitor and be able to either mirror the desktop or have an extended desktop. Will it work in windows?
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Bonjour,
Travailler avec 2 écrans ? Je suppose que ma question est la même, mais je ne suis pas sûr !?!
Question : si l'on branche un 2e écran sur la prise monitor d'un iMac 20' (2006-01), est-il possible, de se servir de ce 2e écran pour y mettre les palettes de ces logiciels, tout en ne gardant que la fenêtre principle du fichier sur l'écran de l'iMac ?
Merci.
JMG
Hello,
To work with 2 screens? I suppose that my question is the same one, but I am not sure!?!
Question: if one connects a 2e screen on catch monitor of a iMac 20' (2006-01), is it possible, to be useful itself of this 2e screen to put the pallets of this software at it, while keeping only the window principle file on the screen of the iMac?
Thank you.
JMG
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HP Omni second Monitor

I purchased a new Dell Monitor to hook up to my OMni as well as a VGA tu USB cable, how do I set up dual monitors?

Hi,
Not much information about your machine:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03150145&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en...
Looks like it's an AIO computer. You need an USB video to be able to connect to second monitor such as:
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/computer-accessories/j5-create-usb-to-hdmi-display-adapter-dsau-xh2313
Regards.
BH
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Hooking up 2 monitors

I am running an alienware pc that has dual GeForce GTX 770's and I am trying to figure out how to properly hook up two monitors. I keep finding tutorials on how to set up everything but no one is saying how I am supposed to plug them in on my graphics cards. I currently have a 23" dell touchscreen monitor and an Acer 21" monitor that is around 3 years old. I have the dell plugged in with an hdmi cord and the acer plugged in with an hdmi cord. I have them both plugged in to the same video card. They both work but I am not sure if I have this set up right because the acer which is currently configured to be my second monitor looks like absolute. The desktop background in completely pixelated even tho the resolution is set to 1920x1080. The display itself looks really off because it is really bright and anytime I play with the controls in the nvidia control panel it just makes it worse. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

I got my DP cable today and hooked up everything as you instructed. I don't see any difference on my second screen. I am adding in a screen shot and an actual photo because they are both very different.
When I take a screenshot from the PC the 2nd monitor(on the right) look very similar.
However when you actually look at the screen (taken with my camera) the screen actually looks washed out and really bright. I have tried to play around with the gamma settings and other various settings in the nvidia control panel but I can't seem to get it to look like a normal screen.
Any ideas as to why this is doing this? The monitor is only a few years old and when I had it hooked up to my computer a few weeks ago by itself it looked fine.

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