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March 27th, 2008, 05:50 AM
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Laptop as second monitor
I am trying to setup my laptop to be used as a second display for my desktop. I know there is software that will allow me to do this (Maxivista) but I a) don't want to buy anything and b) work completely over a wireless network and assume the lag would be bothersome.
I have a nVidia 7600GT in my desktop capable of dual screen support and am hoping to be able to hook a vga cable from the video card to the port on my laptop (usually used for external/second monitor). Mostly I'm wondering if this port can be used as an input directly to the monitor. Laptop is HP brand, model nx6110.
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March 27th, 2008, 05:58 AM
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No, you can't. That's an output port, not an input.
Doing this in software would be horrendously slow, both on the target and the client machine. You could use your normal display as a second for your laptop, but not the other way around. The cables to that screen are hard-wired to the laptop's graphics board.
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March 27th, 2008, 03:24 PM
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June 27th, 2008, 07:21 PM
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Itsacon is wrong.... you can do this with MaxiVista and it isn't that slow. Works pretty well. There is also a free program that you can use that I read about in either Max PC or maybe it was PC World, but I can't remember what the free program is.
I am actually online trying to find the free version because my MaxiVista trial is up and I can't find the Magazine that I read it in. I am going to need to start digging through my old mags... it was a month or two ago issue.
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June 27th, 2008, 07:33 PM
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ZoneScreen was the free product they were talking about... gonna go try it now
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June 27th, 2008, 08:01 PM
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you could always use synergy to have control of the multiple monitors. technically, it wouldn't really be a 2nd display; but, it would let you move the mouse seamlessly from pc to pc.
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June 28th, 2008, 08:13 AM
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Indeed, I recently tried MaxiVista, and it is a good program.
It's not free though, which is why jwest21 didn't want it.
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June 28th, 2008, 06:24 PM
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I'd assume here the laptop you're running on needs to be o working laptop >.<
What would be better (for me, at least), is if you cold take a busted laptop and use just it's monitor as a second monitor. Board is bad on two boxes I got :-/
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