Extending desktop gets a magenta monitor


  1. Posts : 35
    10 Windows 7 Pro 32-bit
       #1

    Extending desktop gets a magenta monitor


    On Win7 Pro 32-bit, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family 8.15.10.2021 (HP 6730s laptop):

    I tried extending the desktop to an older Compaq 5017m LCD monitor without success. The monitor by itself displays reasonably, yet when I tried extending to it the display appears to go almost all magenta. None of the available settings appeared to make any significant difference. As a standalone the monitor works just fine. Any suggestions (other than don't do it)?

    Thanks.

    g
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  2. Posts : 2,685
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64
       #2

    Go to Intel's site, run the auto-update utility and check the newest drivers are available, then connect the monitor and dig around in Intel's config utility, the setting is somewhere there.
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  3. Posts : 35
    10 Windows 7 Pro 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Frostmourne said:
    ...the setting is somewhere there.
    Any notion of what setting I'm looking for? I've tried resolution, color depth and refresh rate.

    g
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  4. Posts : 2,685
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64
       #4

    Something in monitor/scaling.
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  5. Posts : 35
    10 Windows 7 Pro 32-bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Well, applying the infinite monkey theorem, I rather than mucking about in Graphics Properties or Graphics Options, I tried the context menu's Screen Resolution. This gets me into Win7's utility rather than Intel's. For whatever reason, the $&%*^($ thing now behaves as intended.

    So thanks for getting me thinking about this again. We're on the air.

    g
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  6. Posts : 2,685
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64
       #6

    geob said:
    Well, applying the infinite monkey theorem, I rather than mucking about in Graphics Properties or Graphics Options, I tried the context menu's Screen Resolution. This gets me into Win7's utility rather than Intel's. For whatever reason, the $&%*^($ thing now behaves as intended.

    So thanks for getting me thinking about this again. We're on the air.

    g
    That would be the second choice, but if Intel won't do it . . .
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