Dual monitors problems

I'm having a couple of technical issues with my dual screens. I have a TFT plugged into my laptop's VGA port which I use as a secondary monitor but over the past couple of days it's decided that only the TFT can act as the primary monitor. Every time I try to set the laptop screen as the primary monitor it just disables the laptop's screen altogether.

Also, the monitor's locations relative to one another keep changing (i.e. swapping sides), so I have to go to display properties and change the locations back to my preferences every time I turn the computer on.

Can anyone help here please?

Sam

 

Do you have ati catalyst installed? If so check there it has a nasty habit of overriding settings.

 

In fact I cant set my extra display to be primary it is always my laptops tft.

 

I'm not using ATI graphics, it's an Intel chipset Sorry should have mentioned this before.

Sam

 

Sorry man have not got a clue at this time.

 

OK but thanks for taking the time to try to help

Sam

 

right clock on desktop>properties>settings>advanced then go to the displays tab. I have spent ages trying to get some screens to work, only to find I have to double click on them there. (this is on my kaptop with a 9700)

 

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers and stuff like that? A long shot, but it might help...

 

I had a similar thing at work. There's the normal advanced display properties section, which I guess is where you're working from. There's a special Intel one somewhere (I think it's in the right-click desktop menu somewhere, though I'm sure you can get at it in several ways) where if you set the settings from there, it seems to happily keep them.

 

Ah yes, found it, and it works perfectly. Thanks a lot

Sam