no video on second display

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  1. nniwelt

    nniwelt Member

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    I'm having problems with setting up my video card. It's PNY Verto geforce 8600gt. I want to use one LCD monitor and TV but when I drag video playback to second display (tv) it's all black. Everything else it's fine just no video. I want to use for watching dvd movies but as of now i get nothing.

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    nniwelt, Jun 2, 2008
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    As far as I can remember, you can only draw video on the primary monitor - so make the second screen primary.
     
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    Well the problem is that second monitor it's my TV so it's not really possible to have tv as primary display. Meaning that Most of the time I spent doing regular stuff and tv it's not needed, only when I'm trying to watch dvd I would like to have tv involved.

    I just can't imagine that my card 8600GT can't handle this simple task.

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    sammorris Senior member

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    There must be a way of doing it, but I've not found one, and a google has come up empty. Hopefully someone else can contribute a method.
     
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    thanks
     
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