Laptop, VGA only output, and Multi Display problems.

Hey. I just finished installing my Win7, and having a major issue.
I have a MSI Ex600 which has a Nvidia 8400M graphic card. The card only has a VGA output, and for some reason, I cant make my laptop to recognize my 22' Mag screen as a seperate monitor. When I click the identify button, it just shows '1' or '2' on both screens, and it drives me insane because its not supposed to be like this, it makes 2 major issues:

1. When I close the lid, the monitor shuts down aswel
2. The laptop is running on 1200x800, so when it pops up on a 22' screen, its just huge nd not comfortable to use.

It only recognizes it as a different screen when I do the "Extend" otion. but I dont need nor want that atm. I just want to be able to seperate my monitor from my laptop and have it run on a bigger resolution, like it should.

I heard theres something about the framerates, and i tried changing it to all possible options but still got nothing. every time i try and send it to the big screen it just says "Mode is not supported" and gives me a range of Hrtz that changes every time I make it on a nother resul.

Please help me. I'm going insane here because its not fun working like this and it annoys me having my laptop open all the time.

I have to mention that I did get it to work once, but I restarted my CPU and I couldnt get it right again since, I tried everything but nothing worked. just pointing this out so you know there must be a solution, because it worked once.

Thanks for all the help.
Tom.

Yes, I do. but I dont want to extend my desktop, it can make things.. not the same as only using my monitor, like I want to. I tried to do the "disconnect" thing but it didnt show up, I can only do "show only on 1\2"
so how do I fix it to only work on the monitor when I plug the VGA in?
And how do I fix the monitor shutting off every time I close the lid of my laptop?

And thanks SO MUCH for that well written post :)

There should also be an option maybe in power settings for what happens when you close the laptop

I am away from my laptop, but I know there is a setting In Power settings(?) for what happens when you close the Laptop Lid. I had to change this setting when I got my laptop this year.

I know dual monitor settings can be tricky and every laptop that I have used has some quirk that makes setting them up a pain.

I am also new to the forums and new to Windows 7. Welcome to sevenforums. There is a lot of great people and tutorials and posts...have fun

there is nothing in power saving mode, i checked twice. just something that doesnt make it go to sleep. but the display still goes off.
im going insane here, anyone knows how to handle this?..

and the most stupied thing of all, is that if i try to only send to the VGA screen, nothing happens. only if its either duplicated or extended the monitor is working. how do i just make him send to the monitor while ignoring the laptops screen?..

i saw that and i already marked "do nothing" when it closes.
what im trying to say is:

1. when its extended, i dont have a "disconnect" option because it does not recognize it as a secondery screen for some strange reason, and on device manager it does, so i have no idea why
2. when its on duplicated mode and i press "only show on 2", which is the other screen, my monitor SHUTS DOWN. saying "mode is not supported"

Kari said:

What make and model is your laptop? Which graphics card it has?

"I have a MSI Ex600 which has a Nvidia 8400M graphic card"
written in the main post :)
+ i just downloaded the latest version of the driver, and for win 7. so thats no issue.


Heres a pic. as you can see, im on extended but still cant remove any. and if i could, it would just tell me the error messege again "mode is not supported" on the monitor