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I have a short question:
What does it mean when you can't "extend your desktop" onto your secondary display? When every time you check that box, hitting "Apply" unchecks it again?
Here's the long story behind it, in case you need more information:
I've got a computer hooked up to my television so that I can watch movies and television off the computer. Initially, I had it set up so that the s-video tv-out on the video card was connected to the television s-video input and set the "tv-out monitor" as the primary display in the Windows display settings. This worked great because it would boot up straight to the television-- didn't need a separate monitor or anything.
Was a nice setup, friends used to like to come over and use it and such. Of course, you guys know how some people just don't seem to realize that if they don't know how stuff works, you shouldn't go messing with it. So this other night, while I'm in the shower, I get a knock on the door, and this:
I have no idea what the heck happened, but sure enough, the computer was no longer outputting to the televison. I hooked up a computer monitor to the VGA output-- the computer was running fine, but when I went to the display properties, the "tv-out monitor" was disabled. I cheked the "extend my desktop to this monitor" and "make this my primary display device," just as I had remembered it being set before, but when I clicked "Apply," the screen blacked out for a second and came back up with the boxes unchecked again. Every time I try to click the "extend my desktop to this monitor" box and apply, the change goes away and the monitor is once again disabled. I can't get it to output to the television anymore.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled video drivers. The video card/computer is working perfectly in every other way, and I've checked and rechecked all connections a thousand times. Any advice would be appreciated.
What does it mean when you can't "extend your desktop" onto your secondary display? When every time you check that box, hitting "Apply" unchecks it again?
Here's the long story behind it, in case you need more information:
I've got a computer hooked up to my television so that I can watch movies and television off the computer. Initially, I had it set up so that the s-video tv-out on the video card was connected to the television s-video input and set the "tv-out monitor" as the primary display in the Windows display settings. This worked great because it would boot up straight to the television-- didn't need a separate monitor or anything.
Was a nice setup, friends used to like to come over and use it and such. Of course, you guys know how some people just don't seem to realize that if they don't know how stuff works, you shouldn't go messing with it. So this other night, while I'm in the shower, I get a knock on the door, and this:
I have no idea what the heck happened, but sure enough, the computer was no longer outputting to the televison. I hooked up a computer monitor to the VGA output-- the computer was running fine, but when I went to the display properties, the "tv-out monitor" was disabled. I cheked the "extend my desktop to this monitor" and "make this my primary display device," just as I had remembered it being set before, but when I clicked "Apply," the screen blacked out for a second and came back up with the boxes unchecked again. Every time I try to click the "extend my desktop to this monitor" box and apply, the change goes away and the monitor is once again disabled. I can't get it to output to the television anymore.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled video drivers. The video card/computer is working perfectly in every other way, and I've checked and rechecked all connections a thousand times. Any advice would be appreciated.