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Dual Monitor Issue
Hi, I have a rather specific and yet glaring issue that's recently come up after some modification to my MacBook Pro mid-2010 running Windows 7. I run W7 on a second hard drive that I installed in order to add more storage space to the 128 GB SSD that I use for its speed.
The problem is, I use an external monitor (connected via DVI from the MiniDisplayPort) that works all of the time except when I try to use it as the only monitor. I'm able to run both at once, or just the laptop's screen, but when I close the laptop and try to use only the external monitor, the monitor claims it's not receiving a signal. The CPU fans are still running, and the keyboard lights are on, so I assume the computer is running, there's just no picture going out. Alternatively, when I used the Nvidia settings to switch the external to main monitor, the same thing happened until I unplugged it and it used the laptop screen again.
EXTRA INFO:
This issue only came up recently, after I switched from a 500GB 5400rpm extra HD to a 750GM 7200rpm HD. I tried doing a clean install on the partition that I made for W7 to fix this issue but it didn't work, and neither did a driver uninstall/reinstall.
I also believe a part of the cause may be the attempt I made to install Kubuntu, during the partitioning stage I accidentally did not make the partition for Linux large enough for Kubuntu so the install failed. The next time I turned on the computer, I was forced to run a chdisk on startup and reboot, at which point it worked again.
I'm willing to try a complete wipe of the HD (which I did not do before in order to save the data I had on another partition) if that could help, it would simply take a long time.
Thanks