Having trouble with displaying 2 monitors or a tv and a monitor at the same time. At first I could hook up my tv to my laptop and view the picture on each one without issues. It was connected by an hmdi cable. I also had my laptop and another monitor connected to eachother via hdmi and vgi and able to view it fine on both monitors. I tried using an hdmi spilitter to allow me to view all without unplugging and switching cables. I could not view either tv or other monitor via hdmi splitter. I went back to original hookup but i can no longer see tv or other monitor while set up seperately. When I show display in control panel and show display settings it shows one monitor with a 1 and 2 in it divided by a an up and down line such as this ! without the period below it. How can I resolve this issue so I can use all displays without unplugging cables or to go back to my original hook up. thx
So you have a laptop and another one screen connected but you cannot see anything on the tv / monitor that is connected or do you have two extra screens connected ??? Graphics card ??? First off you need a pretty good built in GPU in your laptop to put a decent picture on a tv , secondly i personally would not use splitters. Unless you want to spend big bucks on high end splitters. Go to screen resolution settings ( right click desktop) check "display desktop on 1 / 2 " dependant on your display setup. Restart your machine with all extra displays unplugged. Recreate your original setup one step at a time, may need to setup up multiple monitors in GPU control panel depending on your GPU.