Use of Two monitors

I have just upgraded my PC and bought two HP monitors. The PC spec said it could support up to three monitors. What I am not sure about is how exactly to set up the two monitors: - I.e. what ports to use in the rear of the PC. I have one HDMI cable but it only seems to fit one of the ports - yet there are 3 others at the rear of the PC;- It sounds like a silly question, but there are 3 other larger ports at the rear of the computer, are those another kind of HDMI port. The Monitors I have bought HP Pavilion 23xw will take VGA and HDMI ( the ports at the back are labled HDMI 1 and HDMI 2). As indicated, it might sound like a very silly question, but I cant find any online help to detail the ports at the rear of my graphics card.

Hi, It actually has 3 Display ports, 1 HDMI port and 1 DVI port: http://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c04714105 You can use 1 Display port and 1 HDMI port or 1 HDMI port and 1 DVI port depending on which port do you have on your monitor. This video card can connect up to 4 monitors. Note: Info for Display Port (DP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort Regards.

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Regards, Sander Stols

sanderstols wrote:
I am very sorry, but it seems I still haven't explained the problem clearly enough.
1) The setup is as you have it: primary at left - workspace on the primary.
2) Then I open an image (using the context menu; or dragging it from the Explorer window; or re-opening it from the PS File menu).
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Regards, Sander Stols
mmm... keep PS maximised on the primary monitor and a new image will open in the workspace. It's when it is not maximised that it could open outside the workspace....
In 2) above, dragging from Win Explorer to the PS workspace will open it there. Re-opening from the PS file menu may open outside the workspace unless PS is maximised.
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I have a Macbook Pro through which I want to extend the displays to two individual monitors.
The two monitors should show two different windows which is opened through my macbook.
I have observed that macbook has only one mini display port through which I connect to HDMI or to DVI ports in monitor.
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Background
I have a dual monitor card and two monitors which I want to use in my LabView application. The application gathers data from a complex sensor and calculates a number of results which need to be displayed graphically, this happens every 10 seconds or so. There is an awful lot of graphs which may be needed to be seen at some time but not routinely. The idea is that one monitor will display all the standard routinely displayed things and will not have any user input whilst the second monitor will display a tab control which has all the other graphs pickable.
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Hallo,
with new version of LV its more easy, but it also hasn't any troubles with LabVIEW 6.x or 7.x.
Especially with Matrox P650 you will get no any problems (we using
exactly this card together with G550 and our application supported
three monitors at the same time.).
I recommend to you following sequence:
- After installing driver turn on option for supporting different
resoluton on different monitors. As result you will get two absolutely
separate monitors.
- In Windows define which one is primary and which one is secondary.
(On primary monitor located taskbar and all messages dialog boxes will
appear.).
- Arrange secondary monitor in display properties - where he located (left from primary, or right)
- In your VI (which must appear on second monitor) use
FrontPanel.PanelBounds Property Node for positioning. You must set four
values for two corners. Easiest way to found right values is following:
read this property node in while loop and put indicator on front panel.
Then run VI, drag front panel onto second monitor and resize if
necessary, and then you will see right values for PanelBounds. You can
write this property node programmatically in run-time too.
hope it help,
good luck.

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This is for my office at work.
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Exactly what Bob Levine said. Can confirm, running a two monitor display here.

I cant get two monitors to work on one pc.

Does anyone know why i cant get two monitors working on one pc?
I have a HP P6 2000 UKM computer, running windows 7 and it has a DVI D socket as well as the standard VGA (which i am using for my primary monitor) I have got the right DVI to VGA adaptor and have followed various instructions to set up duel disply but every tutorial i have seen says use the multiple display option, but the option dropdown box is not there!
Iv'e tried two different monitors but he same problem. If my graphics card does not suport 2 monitors then why is there a DVI D socket?
Have never had this problem in the past!
Please help.
Nobby

Hi,
Please post the exact HP product number for your PC.
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