I just purchased this Splitter, and it will only mirror the monitors, I don't want to mirror my display, I want a separate workspace for workflow management. What am I doing wrong? I am using Windows7. Please Help!
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I am sorry to tell you that I made the same mistake. All you can do is mirror the DVI input. One thing I am working on though is creating aa custom driver that will double the virtual width of the monitor resolution while still maintaining the same height. I have gotten close once but the aspect ratio for the width doubled as well. Resulting in watching movies with a bunch of short fat people. My work around for now is to use the vga jack out of my laptop for one 23" monitor and an HDMI to DVI-D adapter and DVI-D cable to my other 23" monitor. This gives me 3 hi-res displays to use. Not the most elegant solution but it works. If you find an answer I would love to here it. If I get my custom double wide driver to work I will be happy to share. Cheers, CJ. Cjchumbley@computer.org
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You will probably need two DVI cables (connect from splitter to the monitor) or if you have VGA cales, you will need DVI to VGA adapters (available at Amazon or Walmart) to connect to the splitter and then connect the VGA cable from Adapter to the monitor.
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Same experience here -- I couldn't get it to support 3 monitors concurrently.We ended up getting DisplayLink USB to VGA adapters for the third monitor, since we're just doing office work (documents, spreadsheet, emails). It's worked well and seemed to be the lowest cost option.If you need 3 monitors for gaming, I assume you would need 2 graphics cards (and probably a stronger power supply), although I haven't done it so can't confirm.
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If you have two monitors, you just uncheck mirror in display setting, it will become mirror off (Dual) mode (For Mac)
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What's your OS ?if win7 it'll be:control panel>appearance and personalization>display>screen resolution then click on "multiple displays" and select your option: show desktop only on monitor 1, only on monitor 2, duplicate these displays, extend these displaysworks for me.
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hi,i just have 2 monitors, but 3 monitors in surround+1monitor on something else seems to be possible, nvidia has some explanations about how to do it, i have never set up that kind of configuration, hope i could help morehttp://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/how-to-correctly-configure-geforce-gtx-680-surround#1
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No, not necessarily. This will adapt from one connection type to another, it does not split the monitors itself. I used this to adapt an older monitor for a dual monitor setup but this part along will not duplicate or extend a monitor.
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I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but if your graphics card can handle it you can use a splitter to have 2 monitors hooked up to your computer. You have different things pulled up on either monitor, so you could have a word document open on one and research in a browser opened on the other.
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I cannot get any picture on the 2nd moniter. I am positive I have all DPcables connected properly, yet nothing on moniter 2 It just displays the same maddening message: "No DP connecter". I have ordered the $76+tax Startech MSTMDP122DP Mini DisplayPort to 2x DisplayPort Multi Stream Transport Hub. Pissed off here. Dell effed up with these monitors. Eric.O is absolutlely correct.
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It didn't work for me... Do you have two monitors that each have VGA connectors, but you have a computer that has one VGA port and one HDMI port? That is what I had, and I found although this seems like it would connect the two, it doesn't work. I found success with an adaptor that connected via the USB port that was ~$40 from Best Buy. I had failed with this cable as well as two other splitters. The spitters left me with mirror images/replicas and this connector quite frankly did nothing. Good luck!
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I believe that would be an issue with your computer setup if it would allow a 2nd monitor. If you go to your desktop display properties and look there for dual monitor options. But you would probablt be best by contacting the support dept of your pc brand. Google the company name and support.
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Thanks so much for your response. I'll go ahead and bust it out of the package and try it out. Trying to connect an extra monitor!! Lee
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I am assuming you want to "extend the displays"? If this is so then no, your video card needs to have two monitor ports in order to "extend the displays". You will only be able to mirror them with this splitter.
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If your machine has a dvi port you can split it with a dvi to two vga connector. If not you will have to get a different video card. You could also call tech support from where you got it they will help you.
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This splitter can not do what you're attempting; this splitter is in the opposite direction. It will take one input and split it into two outputs. What you need is an HDMI switcher box (i.e. multiple inputs to one output). Hope this helps.
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This is simply a splitter that duplicate input signal. 4 different "monitor/TV" screens will have the exactly same content. For multiple displays with different content, you need multi-display graphics adapters.
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I'm not sure what you mean by mirrored, but I had 2 different monitors connected by this port so it would all look like one super large monitor. It worked great.