Second monitor using windows on macbook.

I have to use a tv (dvi) as a second monitor, anyone has tried it in windows?
Thanks.

If your TV takes DVI input, and you have the mini-DVI to DVI cable for your MacBook, there is no reason it shouldn't work.

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Second monitor using VGA to HDMI or alternative?

Hi,
I recently purchased a HP ENVY TouchSmart 15-j038tx Notebook PC.
I have a Dell monitor, which only uses the VGA output.
I have a sony vaio VGA to HDMI adapter, and I tried this adapter with the monitor, it worked fine. I was able to use the monitor as second screen.
However, when I use the same adapter on the HP computer, the second monitor is black and do not get recognised.
Can someone please helpe me!!!!
Do I need to buy a new VGA to HDMI that's specifically built for HP computers?
Or
Do I need to download some drivers to make this work? I just updated the computer with the drivers as I purchased this only a few weeks ago.
or
Do I need to get a different adapter? like VGA to USB? Is there such a thing?
The Dell monitor is about 5 years old, but if it works on my Sony Vaio Pro 13 Laptop that just got released, I don't see why it won't work on the HP too.
Many Thanks

There is a possibility that all you need to do is go into the display properties of the HP and have it look for the adapter.
First the model number of the HP and then the Windows version that is installed, please.
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Using windows on macbook pro

hey guys ive been wanting to use windows is it safe to run windows on ios?

There is a forum called... Boot Camp
https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp
Apple provides tools and drivers, especially new with 10.8.3 they finally support Windows 8.
Any product, the main support is from www.apple.com/support
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp
Boot Camp: Frequently asked questions about installing Windows 8
Summary
Learn more about how Mac computers can run Windows 8 using Boot Camp 5.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5628
Products Affected
Boot Camp, Windows 8
General installation questions
What is Boot Camp 5?
Boot Camp 5 is not a release of OS X software. Rather, it is a release of the Windows Support Software (drivers). You will need to use this software on your Mac with Windows 8 or Windows 7. For more information on Boot Camp 5, see this article.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5639
Which Macs support Windows 8?
MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Mini (Mid 2011 or newer)
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010 or Mid 2011 or newer)
For more information, see this article. What are the System Requirements for Windows 8?
Please see this article.
How can I install Windows 8 on an eligible computer?
Use the Boot Camp Assistant. The assistant will partition your internal hard drives and install Windows 8. For more information on Windows 8 installation, see the Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide.
Can I use an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8?
Yes. Download and install the Boot Camp 5 Support Software before attemping the upgrade by using the Boot Camp Assistant in OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.3. Alternatively, you can manually download the Boot Camp 5 Windows Support Software here.
When I do an upgrade install from Windows 7 to Windows 8, an "Uninstall USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver" message appears. What do I do?
Do not click on Uninstall. Click the back button and Cancel the upgrade. Download the Boot Camp 5 Support Software by using the Boot Camp Assistant in OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.3, or click here to download them. Then, try the upgrade again. See this article for more information.
After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8, Thunderbolt devices are being recognized when I connect in. How do I fix this?
Disable the Windows 8 Fast Boot feature to allow Thunderbolt devices to be recognized. See Boot Camp: Thunderbolt devices not recognized after Windows 8 upgrade for instructions.
Is there an OS X version requirement to use the Boot Camp Assistant to download Boot Camp 5 Support Software?
You need OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.3 or later installed to download the Boot Camp 5 Support Software (Windows drivers) using the Boot Camp Assistant. After upgrading, click the Go menu and choose Utilities. Then, open Boot Camp Assistant and follow the onscreen instructions. You can download the Boot Camp Installation & Setup Guide.
Is there a download of the Boot Camp 5 Support Software if I'm not using OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.3?
Yes, you can download the Boot Camp 5 Support Software here.
How do I use the Boot Camp 5 Support Software I downloaded from the web page?
The download file is a .zip file. Double click it to uncompress it.
Double-click the Boot Camp disk image.
Copy the Boot Camp and "$WinPEDriver$" folders to the root level of a USB flash drive or hard drive that is formatted with the FAT file system (see question below for steps on how to format).
Install Windows, leaving the flash or hard drive attached to the USB port of your Mac.
Installation of the drivers can take a few minutes. Don't interrupt the installation process. A completion dialog box will appear when everything is installed. Click Finish when the dialog appears.
When your system restarts your Windows 8 installation is done.
Note: If the flash drive or hard drive was not attached when you installed Windows and was inserted after restarting into Windows 8, double-click the Boot Camp folder, then locate and double click the "setup.exe" file to start the installation of the Boot Camp 5 Support Software. How do I format USB media to the FAT file system?
Use Disk Utility to format a disk to use with a Windows computer. Here's how:
Important: Formatting a disk erases all the files on it. Copy any files you want to save to another disk before formatting the disk.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the disk you want to format for use with Windows computers.
Click Erase, and choose one of the following from the Format pop-up menu:
If the size of the disk is 32 GB or less, choose MS-DOS (FAT).
If the size of the disk is over 32 GB, choose ExFAT.
Type a name for the disk. The maximum length is 11 characters.
Click the Erase button and then click Erase again.
Which versions of Windows are supported with Boot Camp 5?
64-bit versions of Windows 8 and Windows 7 are supported using the Boot Camp 5 Support Software. If you need to use a 32-bit version, you need to use Boot Camp 4 Support Software, and you must use Windows 7. 32-bit versions of Windows 8 are not supported via Boot Camp. For a complete list of Windows OS support, click here.
Model-specific Questions
I receive a "Free up space on Drive C" message when I try to do an upgrade install from Windows 7 to Windows 8 on my MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012). Why am I seeing this?
There is not enough free space available to do an upgrade install with the 64 GB SSD configuration. Delete the Boot Camp partition and do a full install instead. See this article for more information.
I see a black screen or distortion when I install Windows 8 on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012). How do I fix this?
The Windows 8 installer does not contain the correct graphics driver for your computer. You'll need to attach the USB media that contains the Boot Camp drivers during installation to address this issue. See this article for more information.
The volume controls keys (F1 and F2) won't work on my iMac (Mid 2011). How do I control the volume?
Use the Settings Charm to control screen brightness. See this article.
My MacBook Air (Mid 2012) will not start Windows 8, or displays VGA graphics when it stats up. How can I fix this?
Your MacBook Air (Mid 2012) needs an EFI Firmware update to address this issue. Download and install the MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.6.
I see a "Windows 8 is not supported on this Mac" message on my Mac. Can my Mac run Windows 8?
For a complete list of Mac computers and the Windows operating systems they support, click here.
Additional Information
For more information about using Boot Camp, please visit www.apple.com/support/bootcamp.
You want to use apps directly for games, excel maybe and don't have enough RAM and processing, run Windows natively. Want to run light weight, use a VM like VirtualBox (free).
Want to do both, dual boot and run Windows as a guest OS, then Parallels or VMware Fusion.
Most do so to run games. Macs and the MacBook Pro line do tend to run hotter under Windows. Fan control is sorely weak to almost not well implemented so use something like AIDA64 and/or other temp sensor monitoring.

How do I use my wireless Led TV as a second monitor using my home network without any cables? Both of them are connected to home network

How do I use my wireless Led TV as a second monitor to my mac book pro using my home network without any cables? Both of them are connected to home network

Having a gateway there is not going to be a problem. We just need to configure the Time Capsule correctly to work with the 2Wire.
You will need one ethernet cable to connect the 2Wire to the Time Capsule and a second ethernet cable to temporarily connect your computer to the Time Capsule so that it can be configured.
The 2Wire you have now should already be broadcasting a wireless network, so once you have the Time Capsule setup, you will actually have two wireless networks there.
Here's how to configure the Time Capsule to work with the 2Wire:
Connect an ethernet cable from one of the LAN <-> ports on the 2Wire to the WAN (circle icon) port on the Time Capsule.
Connect another ethernet cable temporarily from your computer to one of the LAN <-> ports on the Time Capsule
Open Hard Drive > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click Manual Setup
Click the Base Station tab below the row of icons to assign a name for the Time Capsule, a device password (write this down) and adjust time zone settings
Click the Wireless tab below the row of icons
Wireless Mode....Create a wireless network
Wireless Network Name....Your choice
Radio Mode....Automatic
Channel...Automatic
Wireless Security...WPA/WPA2 Personal
Wireless Password....Your choice (write this down)
Check mark next to....Remember password in keychain
Click the Internet icon
At the bottom, change the setting for Connection Sharing to "Off (Bridge Mode)"
Click Update at the lower right and the Time Capsule will restart after 20-25 seconds and you should get the green light.
You should now be able to connect to your Time Capsule wireless network.
I'm not clear on whether you have tried to setup the Time Capsule to backup your computer. Post back if you need some info on that. We may need to start another thread for that as that will be a different subject.

I get no image sent from my iMac to my second monitor using VGA adaptor

I am not getting any image sent from my iMac to my second monitor. I am using a VGA adaptor. Any suggestions?

Is it not detected in Displays?
Which exact eMac is it?
At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B0

Second monitor with Windows 8.1

I installed the recommended upgrade to Windows 8.1 and the second monitor stoped working.
I have a HP 110-194 DEsktop PC US poduct number H6U03AA#ABA.

Hi,
Review this HP posted article. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c03512749&lc=en&product=5398864&tmp...
HP has also posted video drivers for Windows 8.1. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4158&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=5398...
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Color shift with second monitor using develop module

LR 4.1 RC2, OSX 10.6.8 - when I'm trying to use the develop module with my second monitor, the image initially looks accurate. After a second or two and before any edits have been applied, the images desaturate and look very flat. Images viewed with the second monitor in Library module look great. I can't figure out what is happening and am wondering if any others are experiencing this. Thanks.

Will be fixed in 4.1 final.
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Roommate only uses Windows on MacBook Air

This is not your ordinary tech problem but I felt I should post anyway to see if I would get any responses...
My roommate saw my iMac and liked the way the hardware looked so he decided to check out MacBooks. He liked the thinness and lightness of the MacBook Air and bought one replacing his Dell laptop. We soon afterwards upgraded to an AirPort Extreme for our home network. He liked how much faster it was. He also has an iPhone but he won't use iCloud. He's had the Air for at least a year now and never boots into OS X unless there is an update to download. He spends all his time using Windows with Boot Camp. It's driving me crazy because he's missing out on all the great features in OS X.
How do I get him to drop Windows completely?

VMWare and Parallels Desktop both have their fans, as does the open source VirtualBox. The two commercial virtual platforms have more bells and whistles than VB and are faster, especially in regard to graphics, but if you intend to do mostly word processing, VB is certainly doable.
It is hard to quantify the hit you take by using virtualization. If you are using a word processor or even doing light graphics work you might not notice any difference at all. It is there, but too small to be felt. OTOH, you'd notice quite a difference if you were doing video editing or playing an intense graphics game.
Luckily both VMWare and PD run in demo mode so you can test them out and see if the performance you get meets your needs. If not then BootCamp it is. BTW, I used BootCamp for several years before dumping it about 12 months ago. I'm not a PC gamer and between a faster computer and software upgrades, Parallels Desktop now fills my PC needs 100%

Second monitor use

I would like to view my work as I edit it on my prime monitor on a second monitor in order to get a view of the work as I edit on the prime monitor. Is this possible?

I have the Navigator panel open full time on my second monitor. It always shows the entire document. Is that what you mean?
Here's what my Photoshop layout looks like across two 1600 x 1200 pixel monitors.
-Noel

New to Mac: my monitor using Windows was fine; I'm having problems now

I'm trying to figure out if the basic problem is that I need a monitor designed for a Mac vs PC: I have a new Westinghouse monitor, 1024x768x60, that worked fine w/PC. I've flailed around with both the Mac Display & the physical monitor display settings.
Basically the issue that I didn't experience w/PC is that the fonts are really small (eg, Mail) -- not WYSIWYG, even tho the Mac stuff is large (eg: To, Cc, menus, etc.). Also, the display (again, not the Mac stuff) is blurry (eg, what I'm typing here).
Since the whole point of the Mac Mini is that I wouldn't needlessly replicate my fairly new monitor & keyboard & mouse, I'm trying to understand how to maximize my existing hardware (I've already given up & am replacing my fairly new keyboard & mouse).
Thanks for any help. Must add, the mac has eliminated my existing PC problems.

George,
I've also struggled with getting my monitor (Viewsonic VX2245wm 1600x1050) to work seemlessly with my Mini. The Mini wouldn't always detect the monitor and I would get a non-native resolution that would look stretched or fuzzy when I restarted or woke-up the Mini. That was if I didn't get a blank screen with a "no signal" message.
I'm not sure if this will solve your problem, but here are the steps I followed most recently to get the Mini to recognize the monitor and provide the native resolution required (caveat - I'm not an expert, but this is what I've pieced together through reading other posts and following advice given to me in regard to questions I've posted. There are a many more knowledgable people that might chime-in so take my recommendations/explanations with a grain of salt. And as far as I can tell, you won't break anything following these steps):
1. Use Finder to search for a couple plist files with the term windowserver in the title (use windowserver as a search term). One will have alphnumeric characters. Here are examples from my Mini:
com.apple.windowserver.0016cba959d1.plist
com.apple.windowserver.plist
Apparently, these files store display related preferences and can cause erratic display behavior. Move these files to the trash and empty the trash. They'll be recreated when you restart your Mini. (search other posts for this and you'll find more details....it's a commonly recommended step for fixing display behavior)
2. Shut down the Mini and reset the PMU. Search the support pages and discussion board for the exact steps.
3. Reset the PRAM when restarting (after following the steps to reset the PMU). You'll find the exact steps in the Apple support section. Just search on PRAM.
4. Use finder to search for your windowserver plist files to confirm that new ones were in fact created according to the date/time stamp.
When I restarted my Mini after following these steps the Mini was recognizing the display as indicated by the presence of the monitor type at the top of the Displays window in System Preferences. I had to try these steps a couple times to get the Mini to recognize the display (maybe I screwed up somewhere the first time), but since then it's been working flawlessly which is nice because the monitor behavior was driving me nuts.
Again, I'm not an expert and you may get different recommendations or better explanations regarding exactly how these steps reset the display preferences, but I don't think the above mentioned steps will cause any problems outside of possibly resetting the time to some default.
One other option I'm exploring is an application called SwitchResX which apparently allows you to manually control the display settings and add resolutions not provided by the Mini. Haven't had to resort to that since going through the steps above.
Good luck and please share your results if you follow the steps above as I'm trying to develop a better understanding of what else I might try should the problem surface again.

How can I set up a second monitor using the DVI, a mini Displayport to dvi?

Hey guys,
In my office I'm trying to set up a mac with two displays, Samsung screensync sa450s, using a Startech MDP2DVIW mini displayport to dvi, and the DVI port found on the ATI Radeon HD 5770.
However, whichever monitor is plugged in through the mini displayport never shows video, and instead will just flicker sometimes, no matter which monitor I use, or which of the mini displayports i use. The system profiler recognizes both monitors, and has all of the specs on both monitors, but only the monitor connected directly to the DVI displays anything, even if it is the secondary monitor.
The StarTech does still work with the macpro that used to be in this spot, and the only salient distinction I can find is that the old computer has Mountain Lion, while the new one is still running Snow Leopard. Is this a case where we should just update the OS? or is there another fix?
I've also read online that many people have been not fully plugging in these mini displayports, so I'm worried that I'm doing that, but then I'd figure it wouldn't have worked when I plugged it into the old computer unless my predecessor had made some hardware adjustments.
Let me know.

A frequent solution to problems like the one you describe involves pushing in the Mini DisplayPort cable-end.
It should be inserted until essentially ALL of the metal end disappears inside the jack on the 5770 board.
Is this display wider than 1920 wide?
EDIT: The Startech MDP2DVIW adapter you cited is a passive adapter suitable for 1920 wide or less. You should be using ACTIVE adapters, about US$35. They cost a little more, but are much more trouble-free. The ACTIVE designation means they contain booster circuitry to raise the Voltage levels up to true DVI levels. The default converter produces good timing, but the signals are really low.

Mac Monitor using windows tower?

Is there a cable that I can hook my windows computer to my Mac so that I can use both computers on my mac screen? I have the newest version of leopard and Bought my mac about two months ago 20 inch with 2 gig of ram.
thanks!

Any DVI cable should work. Or get a DVI base KVM switch.

Updating images on a second monitor

I am sending 4 different fringe patterns to a second monitor using a VI whose front panel I've configured to open on that monitor. I'm then using a camera to capture these images. This works reasonably well with the exception that I am limited to updating the image every 200 millisecs before the camera image quality begins to degrade,although not all images are affected int he same way. The resolution on my second monitor is set to 1280 x 720 and the refresh rate is 60Hz. My graphics card is an nVidia K2000 quadro.
Ideally I would like to update the image every 100msecs and still obtain acceptable image quality. Any suggestions as to how I might be able to speed up my image display and capture without image degradation?
Thanks LW
Attachments:
RIM_GetImages.vi ‏23 KB
Fringes.docx ‏601 KB

I'm not sure that I understand your suggestion. I am using the image in the subVI to display my fringe pattern on a second monitor. I don't want to create an image of my subVI front panel or save it anywhere. The for next loop in my subVI displays my sequence of fringe patterns in the image window which is expanded to fill the whole of the monitor. My second monitor is a pattern generator in effect.
There seems to be a limit as to how fast I can update the displayed image before I start to see image corruption from the camera. As of now I'm not sure what the root cause is. It could be that LV takes some time to send the image to the monitor, maybe it's windows not responding in a timely fashion to an instruction to update the image, maybe the it's the camera, the graphics card or the fact I'm using a subVI. Given that computer games must be updating monitors at high frequencies routinely I'm puzzled as to why a monitor update rate greater than once every 200 millisecs should be causing me problems.
Is there a way that LV can write an image directly to a monitor and bypass any delay brintroduced by windows?

How do you move Mail, Preview to second monitor?

This is probably a dumb question... I have a second monitor connected to my Macbook Pro. I can move Chrome and other programs to second monitor by dragging them there. I'm unable to drag Mail, Preview to the second monitor.....
What am I doing wrong?

Do you mean ---
To a second monitor, or to a third, "grade" monitor?
How "most" people are doing it... among the now 1.4 million licensees of FCP, I can't really comment. I don't think there are that many grade monitors in use, fewer users of even external monitors. For two-monitor setups, the use of a 2xDVI GPU is the way to go, but the video is NOT conditioned for broadcast display, at least up to this version, and not likely to change until Snow Leopard, when the 1.8/2.2 issue is rumoured to be addressed.
The preferred method that was envisioned by the engineering team was to use an AJA or Blackmagic AV-SDI interface, so that all the up/down/cross gamma and colourspace and framerate and resolution issues could be taken care of by somebody else.
There is a landslide of opposition to this because "proper monitors and video interfaces are too expensive". So "many" people gaff-tape and Rube-Goldberg "less expensive" solutions using computer graphics displays. They run into a lot of problems, not restricted to, for examples, an inappropriate contrast ratio, non-standard spectral response, and incompatible third-party color profiling which completely garbles the output.
It is an extremely complex problem. At the moment only SDI is supported, FireWire will likely never happen as it doesn't have the bandwidth to be useful.
jPo

Envy 15t-J100 Problem connecting second monitor

Hi!
So I have that problem that I want to know if someone ever had or have the answer for.
Each time I plug a second monitor using an HDMI cable, in order to get it to work I need to go to the device manager, disable and enable the Intel HD 4600 driver.
It's was OK when I used to connect the second monitor once in a while.. but now I use it on daily bases and each time it goes to sleep mode I need to do the disable/enable thing again.
Please let me know if you have any solution,
Thank you,
Ron.

@Berkomb ,
Hello and thank you for posting on the HP support forums. This issue may be due to a possible update from Microsoft. If an updated driver has been loaded that is not from the HP support site it may cause a change in functionality.
You may want to try a system restore back before you noticed the problem.
HP PCs - Using Microsoft System Restore (Windows 8)
Here is another link that may help you as well.
HP Notebook PCs - Troubleshooting HDMI Display and Sound Issues
Please let me know how things go.
Thanks again for posting and have a great day.
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