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Hooking up 2 monitors to one PC?
My computer at work is a Dell desktop. I don't know much about this stuff but looked into it. It has a DMS-59 connector in the back and already has a DMS-59 to dual VGA Y splitter cable hooked into it. Only 1 VGA cable though is hooked up to my 1 monitor. EVERY computer we have has this dual VGA splitter cable but is only hooked to one monitor. I tried hooking up a spare monitor I brought from home to the other VGA port on the Y cable but it wouldn't work. The monitor screen showed it wasn't getting a signal. I did turn the PC off and back on after hooking it up. A couple of our computers do already have dual monitors. But I looked at them and they have a DMS-59 to dual DVI Y splitter and a DVI to VGA adaptor on one of them, with the other DVI running to one of the monitors and the VGA to the 2nd monitor. Do I have to get one of those DMS-59 to DVI cables, or is there something else I have to do to get the dual VGA's to work?
Ah. So you're saying something I'd probably have to go in through the Windows control panel to fix? Or something I'd have to get my IT department to do?
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- Just Call me AJLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
if there's only one vga socket on the back then hooking up another monitor to a splitter cable will just give you the same picture on both monitors (rather pointless, and no idea why yours isn't doing this already).
As a DMS-59 socket can run two monitors there must be a setting in the graphics properties that turns on the second channel so you can have an extended desktop.
Sounds like you have the right cables to me, there's just a setting missing.
Source(s): IT/AV engineer
