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Media Center Multiple Monitor Madness!
I never seem to get responses in forums, probably because I'm so long-winded; so let me get right to the point: I have an MSI laptop with an HDMI out. Hooked it up to my older plasma TV (used an HDMI/DVI converter); screen comes up, looks great. Now I want to watch a movie, but I can't get my laptop screen to go off! If I disable the laptop screen via the Windows Display dialog or the nVidia control panel, both screens always shut off. I also set closing the lid to "do nothing" in power settings, but when I close the lid the signal to my TV also stops. This should be simpler!
Any help would be so appreciated. I've been searching the web for the past hour with little success...I have no idea how this isn't a huge issue that many people experience...
Thanks!
(Strange thing is that this laptop has an 8200M nVidia card in it, and I had a very similar problem when I had a desktop machine with a 7600 nVidia card in it. In that case, I had a monitor and a TV plugged in. Once I got the TV set to my liking, I'd unplug the monitor to put it away...but the TV signal would go away! Luckily, in that case, I could leave the monitor plugged in but OFF and the TV would still work. With the laptop, I'm not so lucky - I can't even get the screen to turn off, so there's always this secondary annoying glow in the room, not to mention wasting hours of the laptop LCD life!)
Last edited by drokkon; 26 Jan 2010 at 12:15.